Lune · Spirituality · 2026

A moon ritual app, from the sky to the screen

Lune is an iOS and Android app for people who want to do moon rituals and explore spirituality. Each ritual comes with its context: what it means in astrology, where it comes from in tradition, and what neuroscience says about it. I designed it end to end, from the product rules and the engine that picks each ritual to the design system and the app in code. It is getting ready for the app stores.

Role: Product designer and builder, alone
For: People who want to do moon rituals and explore spirituality
What I did: Product rules
Ritual engine
Design system
37 screens in code

Five Lune screens on phones — Lune on the phone: welcome, Home, Rituals, a ritual page and Path.

A ritual with its context

Lune explains a ritual instead of telling people what to believe. Each ritual comes with three kinds of context: the belief behind it, the traditions around the world that use it, and what studies suggest about its effect on body and mind. The moon sets the timing: its phase, its sign, and where it falls in your birth chart.

Three roots of a ritual: the sky, a tradition, science — Each ritual has three roots: the sky gives the moment, a tradition the gesture, science the reason.

Rules before screens

I wrote the product rules before designing any screen. Each rule decides what one screen shows:

Tonight

Lune offers three rituals a night, and you do at most two.

Intention

Lune asks for your intention, one of eight, when you open a ritual, not during onboarding.

The ritual

Every ritual has an opening, three gestures and a close, in at most 15 minutes.

Your altar

The steps use what you already have at home, such as a candle, a scent or a bowl of water.

123

Rituals

From named traditions

An engine, not a chatbot

An engine follows those rules. There is no AI at launch: rules I designed assemble each ritual from a sourced knowledge base, so every ritual is safe, sourced, testable and the same for the same sky. The engine ranks the 123 rituals by the day's sky and fills each step from your altar. I simulated every path week by week, from October 2026 to October 2027, in New York, São Paulo and Sydney, and fixed what broke: eclipses, retrograde planets, the same line two nights in a row.

How the engine picks a ritual: the sky and your chart rank them, you choose, your altar fills the steps — How Lune picks a ritual: the sky and your chart rank them, you choose, your altar fills the steps.

A voice people can trust

Lune brings something new into people's rituals, so the voice had to be clear, warm and honest about what science does and does not say. I set it as rules, so every screen speaks the same way:

Concept	Lune says	Lune never says	Why
The activity	ritual	spell	Lune's rituals work with intention and energy, not magic.
What science says	"studies suggest"	"heals", or any promised result	It shows the evidence without overselling it.
The moon	a mirror	something that controls your fate	You stay in charge of your own choices.
Figures on the altar	company	tools for a result	Devotion is respected, never used.
Traditions	the same gesture in a second tradition, as kinship	one tradition ranked against another	Every tradition is treated with the same respect.
Folk customs	"a folk custom"	presented as fact	The reader knows what is custom and what is evidence.
A ritual not done	it stays late, for when you come back	missed, failed	Coming back should feel easy, not like a debt.
Astrology terms	plain words, the term in brackets	jargon first	Anyone can follow; people who know the term still see it.

The sky in plain words, on Home and in full on a ritual page: the moon tonight, where it lands in your sky, and who joins it. Astrology terms appear only in brackets.

The design system is the code

The app follows the design system one to one: tokens go straight into the code, and each screen is measured against its design at phone size. The code is the source, and the design canvas updates from it every day. Every change runs 76 automated tests, a secret scan and a dependency audit. Birth data and intentions stay on your phone and in your account; analytics only count.

One set of tokens feeding the design system and the code — One set of tokens feeds the design system and the code; the code is the source, and the canvas follows it every day.

The Lume design system: colour and type tokens with the same names in Figma and in code.

Motion and the family of lights

Motion

Lune is opened at night, often in the dark, so the motion is slow and soft, one thing moves at a time, and nothing flashes. With reduced motion on, every move becomes a short fade.

The opening screen: scattered stars gather into a globe of lights, the globe rises into place, then the logo, the first line and Begin appear.

The family of lights

Each intention has its own light, from a family of 24 drawn in points of light, each with its own colour, so a ritual card shows its intention before you read it.

One renderer draws every light in the app and on the design canvas: a few points on a card, fine points when the ritual opens.

Haptics

Lune is often used in the dark, so I mapped haptics to the same moments as the motion. Each one sits on a moment's timeline, and taps get a haptic, never a sound. Only these moments vibrate:

Moment	What you feel	Why
Opening	A light pulse as the stars become the globe, a tick when Begin appears	Marks the two beats of the opening
Opening a ritual	A light pulse on the tap	Confirms the tap without a sound
Pull to begin	A tick every 10% of the pull, a firmer pulse at the end, a success pulse on release	You feel how far you've pulled without looking
Breathing	A tick at each change of breath, nothing during a hold	You can breathe with your eyes closed
Path complete	A success pulse as the last light bursts	Marks the end of a path
Finding the moon	Ticks that come closer together as you turn toward the moon, one success pulse when you face it, then silence	You find the moon by feel, then the phone goes quiet

With reduced motion on, the haptics stay, except the compass ticks; the success pulse remains.

The brand, and the social channel

The voice reaches outside the app. I designed the brand, Lune: Moon Rituals, together with the app: EB Garamond titles with one word in italics, Geist Mono labels, on paper, violet and black. Social posts use three page types: an image for the hook, a quote for the reason, and a diagram for what you need and the steps.

The Lune logo and one Instagram carousel: hook, reason, what you need, opening, gesture, close.

Each carousel starts as a short story: what the reader knows at the end, one idea per page, each page leading to the next. Every carousel teaches one real fact with its source, and promises no result.

The social pipeline: a story line splits into hook, reason and steps, then Buffer after review — Every carousel starts as a story line, splits into three page types, and goes out through Buffer after I review it.

Each week mixes carousels, quote posts and short videos for Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest, planned in one document and scheduled in Buffer. I am building the automation that publishes them; nothing goes out before I review it.

I also designed and built lunerituals.app: one page that explains the idea, shows tonight's ritual and collects emails for launch, with the app's tokens and voice.

lunerituals.app, the early-access site, on desktop and phone.

What I learned

Write the rules before the screens

Most design questions turned out to be rule questions.

Plain words work better than explanations

A card people understand needs no glossary.

Astrology, science and energy don't compete

When each gesture shows where it comes from and what studies suggest, people get both.

When the code is the source, the design has to be exact

Every screen was measured against it.

What this case doesn't cover

Usage and results: Lune is not in the stores yet.
Phase 2: the rest of the birth chart, group rituals and other languages.

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