Lakimii Studio — Tattoo Studio Website & Tattoo-Check
( Role )
Designer & Frontend Developer
( Scope )
- Design direction
- The homepage prototype and the full site
- The gallery with style filters and the Merkliste
- The Tattoo-Check funnel
- The Instagram integration with a daily refresh
- Reviews
- Booking
- German legal pages with cookie consent
( Stack )
- Next.js 16
- GSAP
- Lenis
- Instagram API
- Vercel Cron
( Brief )
Lakimii Studio tattoos by appointment in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt, and its old website no longer looked like the studio. The brief was a completely new direction — keep the studio's photography and information, drop the old design — starting from one strong homepage prototype for the client to approve before the rest was built.
( Approach )
I set it dark and editorial: condensed caps, mono labels, the studio's pink, and the tattoos themselves as the loudest thing on every page. The gallery sorts 87 pieces by style, and anything a visitor pins there goes into a Merkliste that carries into the Tattoo-Check — an eight-step questionnaire (first tattoo, placement, size, style, idea, timing) that ends in a request the studio can actually price and schedule. The Instagram feed refreshes itself through the Instagram API and falls back to the studio's own photos if it can't.
( Challenge )
The Tattoo-Check had to follow the flow the client asked for while fitting a single studio — a chain's "which branch is nearest" step became "when do you want to be tattooed". It also couldn't use other artists' photos as style examples, so the style step is set as type until the studio has its own shots. And everything had to keep working while the client sent content in pieces: renamed styles, merged categories, new size options, a cover-up section waiting on before-and-after photos.
( Responsibilities )
Design direction, the homepage prototype and the full site, the gallery with style filters and the Merkliste, the Tattoo-Check funnel, the Instagram integration with a daily refresh, reviews, booking, and German legal pages with cookie consent.
