Out of Stacy + Product's fresh-eyes review: clearer navigation, a genuinely lean curated home, and a tiered card system that fixes the "oversized" feel — all carried in the v2 editorial treatment (paper-led, an accent-framed photo hero, confident sigils, one navy beat per screen) so the app stops reading like a generic events app. Brand designs → hands to APP. Demo: Chattanooga · Mountain Laurel Plum.
Today · What's On · Where to Go · Plans, plus a settings gear top-right (retires the "You" tab). No Bands tab — you meet a band in context and Follow. Four clear jobs, no junk drawer.
A few great things + the latest Weekend Lineup + clear paths into the browse. The comprehensive list lives in What's On. Kills the Today↔What's On overlap.
The "oversized" feel is the images, not the type. One accent-framed feature + compact rows + text-only lines. Five things per screen, not two — and the serif stays full-size.
Warm paper, the framed photo hero, full-color sigils as brand texture, one navy editorial beat. The lean redesign and the editorial soul aren't opposed — the soul lives in how things are treated, not how many there are.
Local/Visiting moves to the gear with a quiet app-bar chip. The home never depends on mode; it just ranks underneath. Visiting still does its anchor/distance work in What's On.
The Where-to-Go toggle reads as a toggle; photoless cards get the branded placeholder; onboarding commits to a background rhythm + balanced spacing; the two leaked eyebrow labels get real copy.
Built in the v2 treatment Stacy approved (paper-led, one navy beat). Then handed to APP to build.
The 4-tab nav + gear, the lean tiered-density Today, the settings sheet — all in v2 soul.
The obvious toggle fix, the branded placeholder system, the tiered cards applied to places.
The background rhythm (dark = brand/emotion, paper = setup), the spacing fix, the real eyebrow copy.
What read as v1 and the treatment that fixes it — the recalibration this whole set is built on.
Brand owns the look (these boards); APP builds. Several review items are APP/PF/Systems lanes, not Brand: the anonymous-follow account decision (#1), the time-of-day buckets + past-event hiding, the "VCL"→"Villa+Cala" code leak, distance sanity-guard, the directory_eligible scope gate, band detail screen (O), the orphan interest taxonomy (R). Those are flagged in Product's review; this set is the design half — nav, home, density, the toggle, placeholders, onboarding polish, eyebrow copy. Every accent swaps per market by token.