TL;DR

WHY

To help the live touring industry work show days with ease

WHAT

A multi-platform suite of products

HOW

An entire mobile app redesign, a new product, a rebrand, and a dream 💭

Role

I joined Eventric as their first full-time designer in almost 20 years, and for two years I was the only UX designer at the company. My work included redesigning the mobile app for Master Tour, their touring and live event logistics software, used by tour managers to coordinate shows and by crew members to check travel times, guest lists, set lists, and other day-of details on the road.
Master Tour Desktop app on the Dashboard for a show day, with a sidebar menu, the day's schedule, notes, local map, venue and hotel details, key contacts, and a list of tour dates
Master Tour Desktop: Dashboard

MASTER TOUR Desktop and mobile

Master Tour is split across two apps. Tour managers are the paying customers, with over 6,000 monthly subscriptions, and they use both the desktop and mobile apps. Crew members and everyone else on a tour use the mobile app for free once a tour manager adds them to their organization. That's how mobile reached over 60,000 monthly users, about ten for every paid subscription.
Neither app had a source of truth in Figma. The only reference for how either one worked was the live build itself. That gap was a big part of why we redesigned mobile, since it's the one app every user touches.

Redesign scope

The mobile app hadn't seen a real update since it launched, seven years earlier. Information was buried several taps deep, and our most requested feature was simply more editing ability on mobile. Over seven months I rebuilt the app's UX and information architecture from scratch, using Forma 36 as a base design system since none had existed before. This was also the first source of truth the team had ever had outside of live builds, which meant building out a real design and prototyping process alongside the redesign itself.
The app used to drop everyone onto a list of dates. We added a Dashboard so mobile would feel closer to what tour managers see on desktop. Before the public release, we ran a limited beta with 20 power users, and I interviewed 15 of them. Tour managers kept raising the same worry: with the Dashboard's horizontally scrolling cards, crew could easily miss key details. I reworked it into a vertical layout with collapsible sections before launch.
Original Master Tour mobile app opening on a Dates screen, a plain list of tour dates showing venue, city, and time zone for each day
Original: Dates
Early draft of the Master Tour mobile Dashboard, with a date picker, venue details, and horizontally scrolling cards for Schedule and Notes
Draft: Dashboard
Released Master Tour mobile Dashboard for a single day, with venue details, shortcut buttons for Files, Hotels, Events, and Guest List, and stacked Day Notes and Hotel Notes
Released: Dashboard
Before, mobile users could only open files attached to a specific date. Files now shows tour and organization files alongside the day's files, and the list can be filtered. Both were new to mobile.
Original Master Tour mobile Attachments screen in dark mode, a single list of files for the day with a download button next to each
Original: Attachments
Redesigned Master Tour mobile Files screen in dark mode, with files grouped into Today's, Tour, and Organization sections, color-coded file type icons, and a note showing who each file is visible to
Redesign: Files
The original app ran on tablets but rarely scaled to fit them. The redesign uses the extra space, splitting Files into two columns in both portrait and landscape.
Original Master Tour Attachments screen on a tablet, a single list of three files stretched across the full width with most of the screen left empty
Original: Attachments
Redesigned Master Tour Files screen on a tablet in portrait, with Today's Files in one column and Tour Files and Organization Files in a second column
Redesign: Files, portrait
Redesigned Master Tour Files screen on a tablet in landscape, with the same two-column layout of Today's, Tour, and Organization files centered on a wider screen
Redesign: Files, landscape

Customizable navigation

Different roles lean on different parts of the app. Some users only ever submit guest list requests, for example. The original bottom nav had four fixed tabs, and a lot of information sat at least four taps deep. The new More menu brings that down to two taps. Unlocking it lets you drag tabs into any order, so the ones you use most are pinned to the bottom nav. I'm personally very proud of how this turned out.
Master Tour mobile More menu open over the Dates screen, with Settings, a Mental Health partnership link, and Master Tour sections like Push Notifications, Files, Hotel, Guest List, Set List, Tasks, Notes, Crew, and Map
Redesign: More menu
Master Tour mobile More menu unlocked, with drag handles next to every item so tabs like Dashboard, Dates, Schedule, and Events can be reordered and pinned to the bottom nav
Redesign: More menu, unlocked

Guest list

Guest list requests used to sit in a plain list, with the summary at the bottom and actions hidden in a popup. The redesign moves the summary to the top, breaks it out by status, and lets you change a request's status right from the list.
Original Master Tour mobile Guest List in dark mode, with a popup over the list showing one request's details and small Edit, Delete, decline, and approve controls
Original: Request popup
Original Master Tour mobile Guest List in light mode, a plain list of requests with a summary of ticket counts by type at the very bottom
Original: Summary
Draft of the redesigned Guest List, with the event details and a New or Pending versus Approved summary at the top, above color-coded request cards
Draft: Summary
Final redesigned Guest List summary, with arrows to move between events and a table breaking ticket types out by New, Pending, Declined, and Approved, plus allotment and remaining counts
Final: Summary
Final redesigned Guest List scrolled to the requests, with a status dropdown open on one request showing Approved, New, Pending, and Declined options
Final: Status menu

Stakeholder feedback

Because the executive team was watching this project closely, I spent as much time managing expectations and gathering input as I did designing. The Figma file collected over 1,000 comments from leadership and engineering before the MVP was signed off. Balancing that feedback against what was actually feasible for development, while keeping the redesign coherent, was as much a part of the job as the screens themselves.

From design to launch

Designs were mostly signed off in July 2024, with some changes along the way to account for development. From there, a small team took about 16 months to get the app out the door. After a limited beta, the app launched to the public in late November 2025.
There are a lot more features and UX improvements I'd love to show here, but this page would get very long. If you're curious about any of the changes I made, reach out. I've spent many hours thinking about this app, and I'm always happy to talk about what I learned.

Design systems work

As the product grew, I rebuilt the design system to keep pace, moving from manual styles to Figma's variables and tokens once they became available. By the end, the entire app could switch between mobile and tablet, or light and dark mode, in two clicks, with font size and spacing adjustable globally or per component. That structure also made the system easier to work with using AI tools, which became a growing priority as the design landscape shifted. The original file stayed with Eventric, so I rebuilt the released Dashboard in code using the same setup: a primitives collection, plus one collection that applies them. Try switching the modes below.
Theme
Device
Text size
Active modePhone · Dark · Default
Northside Hall & Garden Stage at Lincoln Square
AUG13THU
Chicago, IL US
8:00 PM (CDT)
Visible to All Users
Day Notes

- Guest list sections have been approved for this date.
- Opening Band: please have your luggage packed today for the 12 PM flight.
- Laminates for the guest list section must be carried at ALL TIMES!

Hotel Notes

- Late checkout approved until 2 PM for band rooms.
- Crew parking is in the north garage. Bring your tag.
- Breakfast is in the lobby restaurant from 6:30 to 10 AM.

  • HiddenBand + Crew
    BAND + Crew Lobby Call
  • ~ 8:35 AM - 8:47 AM
    BAND + Crew: Drive to Northside Hall - 2 Miles / 12 mins
  • TBD
    Tech Lobby Call
  • 12:00 PM CDT - 3:05 PM EDT
    Opening Band: Dep ORD arr LGA
    Bags at the curb by 9:30 AM
  • 1:00 PM CDT Band + Crew
    Load In
  • 3:15 PM - 3:40 PM
    Train to Lincoln Square - 2 Miles / 25 mins
  • 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
    BAND + Crew: River Cruise to Dinner
Go to Schedule
  • Advance Sheet - Northside.pdf
    Added Tue. Aug 11 1:32 PM
  • Stage Plot v3.jpg
    Added Tue. Aug 11 1:32 PM
  • Hospitality Rider.txt
    Added Tue. Aug 11 1:32 PM
    Visible to Admins, Managers, and: A Team, Group A, Production
  • Per Diems.xlsx
    Added Tue. Aug 11 1:32 PM
Go to Files
Band + Crew
The Lakeview Hotel
Room 1015
455 N. Lakeview Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 US
lakeviewhotel.example
Main: 312-555-0190
Crew
Riverside Suites
Rooms 402 - 410
210 W. Kinzie St, Chicago, IL 60654 US
Main: 312-555-0144
Northside Hall
4802 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
northsidehall.example
Main: 773-555-0203
Garden Stage
4810 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Main: 773-555-0217
Venue - Northside Hall
Maya Chen (Security)
Paula Ferguson (FOH)
Theo Brooks (Production)
+3
Hotel - The Lakeview
Jordan Ellis (Front Desk)
Renee Park (Sales)
Sam Ortiz (Concierge)
+1
  • Confirm guest list cutoff with the box office
  • Send updated stage plot to FOH

Scroll inside the screen. Tap a section header to collapse it.

Variables in this mode

Color variables reference the primitives collection and change with the theme. Size variables change with text size. Layout variables change with the device.

    Master Tour Venue

    Master Tour Venue started with our CTO. The goal was to connect venues to Master Tour so accurate information flowed between both systems. The proof of concept was a Tech Pack that venues could claim, then sign up for Master Tour Venue to keep their details in Master Tour correct.
    Out-of-date venue info is a massive pain point in touring. Bands and crew each have their own riders and load-in requirements, and venue details go stale quickly.
    A contract designer started on the project before I joined, and the green color scheme is their work. Once I came on, I oversaw the main designs for two pieces. The Tech Pack is a shareable link venues can send to touring crews. The Admin Dashboard is where venue admins sign in and keep their information up to date. Since I was also working on Master Tour Mobile, I built a design system using Material Design's Figma plugin, then used it to course-correct the scale, color, and layout of pages that had already been designed.
    Proof of concept for Master Tour Venue, a dark blue dashboard with a venue picker and cards for Profile, View Tech Pack, and Manage Production
    Proof of concept: Dashboard
    Proof of concept for Master Tour Venue, a General Venue Information form with fields for venue type, name, address, website, and phone numbers
    Proof of concept: Venue info
    Contract designer's Tech Pack concept in a dark green color scheme, with a collapsible sidebar of production sections and a Facilities panel with image thumbnails
    Contract designer: Tech Pack
    Redesigned Master Tour Venue Tech Pack, with a last-updated banner, search, section tabs, and a Venue Info card showing venue details next to a map
    Redesign: Tech Pack
    Redesigned Master Tour Venue Admin Dashboard on the Facilities tab, with venue and stage pickers in the sidebar, dressing room details, and photo attachments
    Redesign: Admin Dashboard

    Other Eventric work

    Logo redesign

    The Master Tour logo needed to be brought into a modern era. The old star was also wider than it was tall, which made it hard to use in square spaces like a mobile app icon. I redrew the star to fix both, then carried it across the Master Tour, Master Tour × Eventric, and Master Tour Venue logos. I also tried over 500 font variants for the wordmark, but in the end the CEO decided to keep the original font.
    Original Master Tour logo, a hand-drawn red star with a thick dark outline and a microphone, next to the Master Tour wordmark
    Original: Master Tour
    Redesigned Master Tour logo, a clean geometric red star with a simplified microphone, next to the Master Tour wordmark
    Redesign: Master Tour
    Original Master Tour by Eventric logo, with the hand-drawn outlined red star above the Eventric wordmark
    Original: Master Tour × Eventric
    Redesigned Master Tour and Eventric logo, with the new geometric red star beside the Master Tour and Eventric wordmarks
    Redesign: Master Tour × Eventric
    Original Master Tour Venue logo, the hand-drawn outlined red star next to a stacked Master Tour Venue wordmark
    Original: Master Tour Venue
    Redesigned Master Tour Venue logo, the new geometric star in blue next to a stacked Master Tour Venue wordmark
    Redesign: Master Tour Venue

    Website

    I redesigned the Master Tour website, its first update in seven years. The client list was out of date, and we wanted to refresh the brand for people who might be finding us for the first time. The website is also where tour managers sign up for their 14-day free trial, which makes it the first step of the journey for our paying customers. First impressions matter.
    Full-page desktop design of the Master Tour marketing website in a dark theme, with a hero and product screenshot, usage stats, feature cards, a client photo grid, FAQs, and footer
    Desktop (scroll to see the full page)
    Full-page mobile design of the Master Tour marketing website, with the same sections stacked in a single column
    Mobile
    Master Tour on desktop and mobile: the desktop Dashboard for a show day next to the mobile app's daily schedule

    LIVE EVENT PLATFORM

    Suite of products built for touring professionals
    ‍
    ‍Date: May 2023 - June 2026
    Skills
    : Mobile & Tablet UI, Design Systems, Information Architecture, User Interviews, Concept Testing, Prototyping
    ‍Team: Lead PM, Lead Eng + Eng Stack, Lead Design, COO / VP of Product