Video Rewind

Video Rewind finished app screenshot

Ingredients

  • Interaction Design
  • Brand Systems
  • Creative Technology

Good Source Of

  • Discovery
  • Story
  • Nostalgia
  • Browsing

Deliverables

  • Brand Identity
  • Website
  • 3D Motion
  • Prototype

Tools

  • Figma
  • Three.js
  • GSAP

Year

2026

Free to browse!

The Idea

Video Rewind started with a simple feeling: sometimes I do not want an algorithm to tell me what to watch. I want the older, messier experience of walking into a video rental store, drifting through the aisles, and finding something because the cover, the shelf, or the mood of the room pulled me there.

Video store reference image
Reference material for the feeling of browsing a video store at night.
Neon video store reference image
Reference material for the dreamy, slightly unreal nostalgia of movie rental spaces.
Flashback video reference image
Reference material for the handmade signage and local-store weirdness that algorithms do not recreate.
Video rental aisle reference image
Reference material for the accidental discovery of walking through shelves and letting covers pull you around.

The Process

I started the build in Figma Make to quickly shape the idea and get the first version of the interface out of my head. From there, I moved into Codex and rebuilt it as an Angular project, using the generated direction as a starting point instead of a final answer. A lot of the work became wrestling with the CSS: getting the browsing layout to feel physical, tuning the poster grid, and testing different little TV-in-the-corner ideas before landing on the version that felt right. The last pass was all about mobile, making sure the interaction still felt fun, clear, and easy to wander through on a smaller screen.

Early Retro Video card shelf interface
Video Rewind wooden shelf browsing direction
Video Rewind detail card overlay exploration
Video Rewind poster shelf flip interaction frame

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Visual Ingredients

A small wall of the pieces that make Video Rewind feel like its own thing: logo marks, texture bits, interface scraps, and brand elements that can be swapped in as the system gets built out.

VHS box wear front texture
VHS box wear spine texture
Video Rewind logo
Video Rewind shelf thumbnail
VHS and Design Deli marks Design Deli Video Rewind mark
Video Rewind about receipt wide composition
Video Rewind about receipt upper detail
Video Rewind about receipt lower detail
Video Rewind mobile shelf composition
Video Rewind browsing wall
Close Encounters VHS box
The Exorcist VHS box
Gremlins VHS box
Video Rewind detail card back
Video Rewind VHS box ingredient
The Exorcist VHS box alternate
Gremlins VHS box alternate
Video Rewind home screen with trailer player
Video Rewind home screen shelf view

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Next Pass

The next version would turn Video Rewind into more of a real membership experience. I want users to sign up with an email, get their own digital membership card, and save the movies they pick along the way. With an account in place, the app could use TVDB data to pull logos, character art, and show assets into collectible cards that make each pick feel like something worth keeping. I also want users to choose from a set of trailers instead of being locked into one preview. Further out, the dream version is a VR video store where you can actually walk the aisles, browse shelves, and let the space lead you to something unexpected.