Derrick Lawter

Projects · Case study

TarotLens

A daily tarot reflection app with an AI reading assistant built for self-discovery, not fortune-telling.

The TarotLens homepage with a daily card, The Star
Status
Public product
Role
Designer and builder
Team
Solo

The idea

A short, repeatable morning ritual: draw a card, reflect on it, and write down what comes up. TarotLens treats tarot as a reflection tool - archetypes and structured questions that help people think through priorities, feelings, and decisions - rather than prediction.

What I built

  • Daily draws and custom spreads, from a single focus card to a Celtic Cross, with support for physical cards logged into the app.
  • The Reading Assistant, an AI that interprets a spread in context - including reversals and the question being asked - and suggests prompts to think further.
  • A private reflection journal that saves insights and surfaces recurring cards and themes over time.

Decisions that mattered

  • Positioning the AI as a reflective guide, not a fortune-teller, and holding that line in the product and in every interpretation it writes.
  • Keeping the experience calm and short enough to become a daily habit.
  • Treating journal entries as private by default.

My contribution

I designed and built the app: the product, the reading experience, and the AI Reading Assistant.

What this doesn't prove

TarotLens is a live consumer app. Nothing here is evidence of user numbers or revenue.