POSTERDROPS
Marketplace · Posters · Alexey Sukhariev · Design engineer
An art-poster marketplace where discovery feels like a gallery and limited editions trade like sneakers. I designed the product UI and the system holding it together — across web and mobile. The design system behind it kept desktop, mobile and admin consistent and made new pages, entity profiles and campaigns quick to build.
A gallery that trades like a floor
POSTERDROPS is a marketplace and community price guide for concert and art posters — part gallery, part trading floor. Collectors, galleries and artists discover limited-edition prints, build collections, and buy, sell, trade and raffle them the way sneakerheads move shoes. The brief I carried for years: make commerce feel like walking a gallery, and keep a data-dense trading UI calm across a huge, image-heavy catalogue on web and mobile.
Designed twice
This product had two lives. I first designed it back in 2017; the build was put on hold, and by the time it was ready to ship the original files were long gone. So I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch — rethought, re-systematised and modernised — and it relaunched as POSTERDROPS. Eight years, two builds, one stubborn idea: put the posters first and let everything else get out of their way.
Browse the wall
Discovery is the front door, so the wall leads. Ranked rails — Hot Today, New Releases, Newest Auctions, Newest Trades, Latest Additions — refresh on their own, sorted by what people are actually clicking. A modular grid of nothing but poster art, hover tools to collect, want or list in a single tap, and the most-searched hashtags up top, so there is always a next thing worth opening.
Inside a poster
The product page is where a gallery becomes a market. One page holds every edition of a print behind a simple toggle — original, regular, artist — instead of scattering them across ten. Around the art sits a live trade bar of lowest ask and highest bid, a price-history graph, the sellers listing it right now, and the community behind it — who wants it, who has it. Plus the details collectors live for: frame-up galleries, process shots and editable keyword tags. The hard part was keeping all that market data legible and calm.
On the phone
On mobile the same page had to make one poster feel desirable and the next action obvious — image tabs, a clean trade / sell split, statistics and edition details, all quick to scan and act on, thumb-first.
A community price guide
Underneath the marketplace is a Discogs-style idea: the catalogue belongs to its collectors. Anyone can add a missing print, correct a listing, upload a framing photo or log a market price — and earn points, badges and reputation for it, which in turn unlock voting and posting. Three account types — collector, gallery and artist — each get a home built for how they actually use it, and artist pages pull in a bio and new drops so fans can follow for alerts.
How it shipped
The result is a poster marketplace that feels as good to browse as the work it sells — visually rich, consistent across desktop, mobile and admin, and backed by a design system that made new pages, entity profiles and campaigns quick to build.
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