Southern Lights — Festival Companion App

Festival apps usually fail at the worst possible moment: on site, one bar of signal, a crowd in the way. Southern Lights needed an app that answers the questions people actually ask at a festival — who is playing, where, and how to get from the gate to the stage — without asking much of the connection.

We designed the full attendee experience for people planning a visit and for the weekend itself. Lineup and schedule views put the day's program on one screen, and the site section covers what a first-timer needs: stages, food, water and the services that keep a weekend outdoors workable. Notifications carry schedule changes and the announcements organizers need to push.

The visual side leans on the festival's own outdoor setting — high-contrast type that survives sunlight and a tight palette that keeps the lineup legible at arm's length.