Playlist

Playlist is a 3D digital music interface. Styled like a mobile music player, it features dynamic controls that allow the viewer to upload music files and backgrounds, swap player imagery, and explore visual themes tied to the music itself. Built to load and represent curated content by the owner, Playlist turns personal taste into a collectible, living design. It blends UI, motion, and real-time rendering into a compact experience that feels both familiar and futuristic.

More Digital Interactive Scenes Here

Daily updates continue as I finalize different types of 3D web experience. AR and VR versions coming soon!

BlackLayer & SignalCore

Designed for AR engagement and product storytelling in mind, BlackLayer supports immersive technology — while keeping UI elements responsive, mobile-ready, and actionable. It bridges the gap between visual depth and intuitive interface, making it ideal for e-commerce, branded content, and responsive narrative design.

Capability	BlackLayer	Conventional Platforms
Unified Web + 3D Experience	✅ Seamlessly blends APIs and web content	❌ Divided layers between interface and visuals
Transparent Media Layers	✅ Supports alpha animated overlays with precision	⚠️ Often flattens or drops alpha media
Live, Interactive Templates	✅ Editable, stylized, and responsive elements	❌ Locked, static template behavior
Layered Experiences	✅ Natural Scene Integration	❌ Flat, single-scene designs
Mobile-Optimized Visuals	✅ Engineered for mobile browser fidelity	⚠️ Visuals frequently degrade or misrender
Modular Content System	✅ Components are reusable and remix-able	❌ Rigid layouts require rebuilding
Stacked Visual Compositing	✅ Video, and HTML without conflict	❌ Competing layers cause lags or glitches
Smooth Transitions	✅ State-driven, cinematic transitions	❌ Abrupt jumps or limited animation logic
Story-First Architecture	✅ Built for narrative, interaction, and hierarchy	❌ Static content with limited flexibility
Signature Visual Style	✅ Depth, motion, and polish feel custom-crafted	❌ Framework defaults limit originality

Realtime Animated Textures

Time-driven texture systems dynamically update surface visuals through motion, light, and pattern changes. Materials evolve continuously in response to animation states or external inputs, enabling living surfaces that shift in color, reflectivity, and detail without remapping geometry.

Performance Overview — Playlist Scene

This interactive WebGL scene was tested using real-device metrics and Google Lighthouse.

Real-device results (mid-tier mobile):

LCP: ~0.7s (poster-first render)
CLS: 0.00 (no layout shift)
INP: ~80ms (responsive interaction)

These metrics confirm a fast, stable, and responsive experience for users.

Lighthouse context:

Lighthouse lab tests apply heavy throttling and penalize WebGL initialization.
This affects the Performance score but does not reflect real user experience.
Layout stability remains perfect (CLS 0.00).

Conclusion:
The scene is optimized for real-world performance, prioritizing instant visual feedback, zero layout movement, and smooth interaction. Lighthouse lab scores reflect the cost of initializing advanced GPU content under synthetic conditions, not a degraded UX.

Interactive Features

This experience is built as a foundation for evolving interaction. Objects and materials are designed to respond to user input through motion, state changes, and camera behaviors, creating a fluid relationship between viewer and scene. The system supports animated transitions, contextual focus shifts, and environment-aware responses, allowing spaces to adapt in real time. As the platform grows, it opens the door to richer gestures, deeper spatial navigation, and personalized interactions—transforming static scenes into living, exploratory environments.

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⚙️ UX Design & Development Strategy

How Black Layer turns immersive technology into intuitive, scalable user experiences.

1. Narrative-First Architecture

Users don’t just consume content—they move through experiences.
BlackLayer is built around temporal design thinking, allowing UX flows to unfold like stories. Each UI state is intentional, and transitions are treated as narrative moments rather than mechanical shifts.

🔹 Result: Users feel guided, not confused. Interfaces become emotionally resonant, not transactional.

2. Unified Interaction

Traditional frameworks separate 3D visuals from UI elements.
BlackLayer removes this wall, allowing real-time interaction between visual elements. Designers can build scenes with emphasis on SEO, tracking buttons, forms, and in a all web context.

🔹 Result: No more choosing between beauty and usability. Users can touch, rotate, click, and act—all in one visual plane.

3. State-Driven Logic & Declarative Flow

UX chaos happens when UI behavior is unpredictable.
BlackLayer uses clear, modular states to ensure that every interaction leads to a consistent visual and functional result. Transitions aren’t hacked together—they’re built into the logic.

🔹 Result: UX stays smooth, understandable, and accessible across devices and use cases.

4. Performance-Conscious Design

Immersive doesn’t have to mean bloated.
BlackLayer is engineered with mobile GPUs and animation throttling in mind. It adapts visual fidelity to match device capability, preserving the core experience for all users—not just desktop power users.

🔹 Result: Fast, responsive experiences that maintain visual richness on any screen.

5. Composable, Story-Ready Components

Design systems aren’t just button kits.
BlackLayer lets teams create modular, reusable experience blocks—scrolling media, animated product moments, interactive reveals—all declaratively stitched together using story logic.

🔹 Result: Faster prototyping. Less dev overhead. More brand-consistent UX moments.

6. Emotion Through Motion

Movement is a language.
From hover states to full-scene transitions, BlackLayer uses cinematic motion as UX language—to guide attention, indicate hierarchy, and reward user actions.

🔹 Result: Increased engagement, clarity, and delight.

🔄 Outcome-Driven UX Philosophy

“Technology without empathy is noise. Black Layer is a system for crafting immersive experiences that users can feel, navigate, and trust.”

Legal Disclaimer

All work shown here is original and created by Nicholas Moffett. Logos and product references are used for demonstrative purposes only and remain the property of their respective owners. The BlackLayer system and presentation methods are proprietary and may not be replicated, deconstructed, or redistributed without permission.

PLAYLIST