An iOS app for film photographers — log the stock, camera, and story behind every roll, then tag and favorite frames so a year of shooting stays findable.
A non-pro film photographer, 18–35. They shoot a few favorite stocks, send film to a lab, and get back flat JPGs with none of the context they care about.
Mobile-native, not Lightroom users. They share to Instagram and want a calmer, film-native home where a roll still feels like a roll.
Scanning throws away what matters most: no camera, no stock, no date, no place. The roll — film's basic unit — disappears into a folder of files.
FrameLog makes logging that context feel less like data entry, more like annotating a contact sheet.
Stock, ISO, camera and dates are set in monospace like a film rebate — everywhere, yet always secondary to the photo.
The app lives on warm paper-white; the frame viewer flips to near-black, so a print reads like it's on a lightbox.
A deep forest green carries identity and every active state. The photographs supply all the other color.
Photos import immediately; the metadata catches up. An Inbox holds anything still missing details.
From camera roll, iCloud, or computer.
Auto-created and dropped in the Inbox.
Stock, camera, dates, place — picked, not typed.
Tag by scene and light; bookmark the keepers.
Filter across rolls; save Smart Albums.
A high-contrast serif F that reads as type. Forest green is its home, cream its reverse — paired with the wordmark or alone as an app icon.
Every screen below is the live prototype — embedded and interactive. Tap, scroll, open a roll, page through frames.
From brief to prototype via a pipeline of AI tools — each step leaving a durable artifact (PRD, wireframes, design.md). The judgement calls stay with me.
A roll is complete once it has a stock, a camera, and one tag — the moment its photos become findable.
Sign in, import a roll, give it a stock, page through the darkroom viewer.