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National WWII Museum
STL Holocaust Museum
U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
Google Tardigrade Biome
Lost Stories
Climoji
Insight Tool –x–
Twitter Classifier –x–Facilitator’s Guidebook
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Google ARA Tardigrade Biome
UX design for a Google Ara module app that lets users enage with a Tardigrade Aquariaum on their phones.


I worked with Midnight Commercial on a novel observable, microscopic Google Ara aquarium module that housed a tiny ecosystem of living microorganisms, algae, and tardigrades that users could view through their phone screen. The module combined state-of-the-art optics engineering technology, microbiology, and a meditation on how we engage with technology everyday. 





Experience Design Features

The user experience challenge was to design a contemplative and empathetic relationship with the living creatures inside your phone. The touchscreen interface would allow users to browse the biome - to watch it change and the organisms move in it. Visitors could zoom in to look more closely and understand the microsocpic scale at which these organisms live. Visitors could caputre images, videos and create timelapses of their favorite moments. A live wallpaper feature would capture a short video of the biome every hour and turn it into a wallpaper. 

We designed the language and tone-of-voice to speak to a user’s sense of wonder, connecting and existing with these tiny creatures.




Sketches






Wireframes



App Flow




Project: with Midnight Commercial
Role: User Experience Design
UX Design Team: Noah Feehan (Creative Direction), Rebecca Lieberman ( UX Design ) 
contact : viniyata@gmail.com