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Luna de Verano is a specialty coffee shop where your drink is chosen by the stars. Literally. The owner wanted a mobile app that captures your birth chart data, reads the current lunar phase, and recommends a personalized beverage.
The design problem: how do you ask for birth date, birth time, and birth place without it feeling like a medical form? How does a "cosmic recommendation" lead to an actual purchase? And how do you build a loyalty system around moon phases that works for someone who doesn't care about astrology?
The starting point was two concept documents with the product vision. From there, I defined the wireframes, user flows, screen inventory, and recommendation logic that the project needed to move forward.
APPROACH
I extracted every requirement from the documentation and mapped the complete user journey.
This revealed critical gaps: no login system, no returning user experience, and no way to browse the menu without going through the astrology flow.
No user research was conducted. The concept documents reflected the owner's vision. My role was to translate ambiguity into a shippable product: defining the flows, building the recommendation logic, creating a design system that could scale, and making design decisions where the spec was silent.
AI was a workflow tool throughout the project. I used Claude to process client documentation into structured user flows, to research astrology systems and translate them into product rules for the recommendation engine, and to accelerate design system documentation: token naming, component specs, and usage guidelines. The visual design, component architecture, and all 19 screens were mine.
Flow A: New User
Splash
Birth Date
Birth Time
Dietary Prefs
Home
Recommendation
Flow B: Returning User
Login
Home
Recommendation
Flow C: Guest
Splash
Menu
Product Detail
Shared Path
Customize
Checkout
Confirmation
KEY DECISIONS
Onboarding as Ritual
Four pieces of personal data before the user sees any value. I split it into one data point per screen with cosmic visuals that frame input as "unlocking your chart," not filling a form. Added a "View Menu" bypass the original spec didn't have.
Lunar Phase Rewards
Instead of points, each order unlocks a moon phase. Your 8th order completes the cycle and earns a free drink. Points still run in the background for business flexibility, but the user sees the moon filling up.
The Recommendation Engine
The concept described "a personalized drink based on your birth chart" without defining the underlying logic. I built it: 4 zodiac elements with flavor profiles, 8 lunar phases with energy modifiers, a 32 combination matrix with drink and copy pairings, and a step-by-step algorithm the dev team could implement directly.
Your element
From zodiac sign
+
Today's moon phase
Changes every ~3.5 days
=
Your drink
Drink + copy + energy
The user's zodiac sign (Scorpio) maps to the Water element: deep, nurturing. Crossed with Full Moon (peak intensity), the engine picks the boldest drink in the Water family and generates the headline.
Each recipe layer traces to a different variable. Base from the user's element (Scorpio intensity). Modifier from today's transit (Virgo precision). Finish from the current phase (Full Moon boldness).
