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Sapphic Junkie
SAPPHIC JUNKIE
CONTENT STUDIO
Product & Visual Design Case Study

From campaigns
to experiences

For over a decade, I helped audiences discover entertainment through branding, key art, and marketing campaigns.

The landscape has changed.

Today’s audiences navigate streaming platforms, weekly releases, creators, fan communities, reviews, and an overwhelming amount of content. I became interested in how product design could make that experience simpler.

Sapphic Junkie is where I began exploring that question.

ForNetflix · ECXD
Rachel Siner
Draft · placeholdersFinal · shipped
Draft, placeholder gradient galleryFinal, real poster art
Draft → Final· placeholder gradients became real poster art & live data. Drag to compare.
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Why I built it

Built from the audience seat

  • Where is it streaming?
  • When does Episode 6 air?
  • Who stars in this series?
  • Which studio made it?
  • Is it worth watching?
  • What should I watch next?

I didn’t set out to build an entertainment platform. I was trying to solve a problem I experienced as part of the audience.

Following a rapidly growing television genre meant constantly searching across streaming platforms, release schedules, cast pages, studio announcements, reviews, and social media just to stay informed.

I wanted one place where discovering, tracking, and experiencing entertainment felt effortless.

Sapphic Junkie became my answer.

166
Series tracked
51
Studios
207
Talent
20k+
Followers
1
Source of truth
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The AI pipeline

One connected workflow

Creating content shouldn’t mean switching between research, notes, AI tools, calendars, spreadsheets, publishing platforms, and analytics.
I designed AI directly into the workflow: research, organization, drafting, structured data, and publishing all happen inside one system.

01
Fetch
AI watches YouTube, Facebook & news for new GL-series announcements and rumors.
02
Approve
Each find lands in Approvals as a structured draft, review, edit, approve or skip.
03
Commit
Approving writes the Series, and auto-creates its Studio & Talent links.
studio.sapphicjunkie.com/approvals
Approvals, the AI pipeline inbox
Approvals· pending pipeline items awaiting review
One approval → three linked records
1
Series, Hometown Romance
Series
Hometown Romance, written as a record
2
Studio, CHANGE2561
Studio
CHANGE2561, auto-linked
3
Talent, Sonya Saranphat
Talent
Sonya Saranphat, cross-linked
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studio.sapphicjunkie.com/series/hometown-romance
Hometown Romance, series detail
Series Detail· cinematic hero, cast & where to watch
studio.sapphicjunkie.com/episode/hometown-romance-02
Episode review, dictate notes, AI drafts the post
Episode Review· dictate raw notes, AI drafts review & caption
Mobile, Series library
Mobile· same system, on the go
Design

Designed from the inside out

Building Sapphic Junkie meant wearing two hats.

As a content creator, I needed powerful tools that could keep
pace with a demanding publishing workflow. As a viewer,
I wanted an experience that felt intuitive, cinematic, and
effortless to navigate.

Every interaction was shaped by how I wanted entertainment
to feel, not just how I wanted software to function.

Content-Forward Design

Interfaces that put storytelling and content discovery first: the show is the hero, not the chrome.

Cinematic UX

Motion, depth and a neon-glass language that makes a production tool feel like prime-time.

AI-Assisted Workflows

AI built into the flow, dictation to drafted reviews and captions, to accelerate, not replace, the creator.

Design Systems at Scale

One token sheet and glass component kit unifying nine surfaces from mobile to desktop.

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Why ECXD

Next steps

For ten years I helped people choose what to watch.

Now I want to help them experience it.

Building Sapphic Junkie showed me that the future of entertainment isn’t just the content itself. It’s the products that help people discover it, navigate it, and stay connected to it.

That’s the work I want to do next.

Rachel Siner
Sr. Art Director | Visual Designer
contact.rachelsiner@gmail.com