People often dismiss their health at high-energy social events, such as music festivals, concerts and bars, by prioritizing immediate, intense enjoyment over long-term physical well-being.

Who it’s for

People attending long social events, such as festivals, concerts and nightlife. Any age, but mainly 18‑40.

These high-energy settings bring:

1. Extended stimulation
2. Irregular eating and drinking water
3. Lots of walking and standing
4. Possible alcohol and substance use

Survey: body awareness in high-energy social environments

I surveyed people who attend high-energy events about how they look after themselves while they’re there.

Personas

Journey maps and top insights

I mapped a bar or club night and a festival or concert across seven stages, from anticipation to post-event reflection. Both follow the same curve: excitement builds to a peak of social energy, then drops sharply as early warning signs appear, and people either leave early or push through and regret it the next day.

Sitting down and suddenly crashing

Taking a break, a person sits down and suddenly crashes: shaky legs, a pounding head and extreme fatigue.

Design implications

• Help people build predictive awareness over time
• Warn about the effects of sitting down in their current state

Ordering another drink

Thinking their last drinks are wearing off, a person orders another. Adrenaline hides the overload, and no one steps in.

Design implications

• Detect “static stress” while standing still
• Avoid over-alerting during normal excitement

Design objective

To enable individuals in high-energy leisure environments to become aware of hidden physical stress by tracking hydration, BAC, and blood oxygen levels.

Design criteria

Competitive landscape

Continuous BAC monitoring in a wearable form doesn’t broadly exist yet, which made it the innovation opportunity for this project.

I sketched 30 concepts and scored each against the design criteria: +1 if it meets a criterion, 0 if it’s neutral and −1 if it works against it.

Top four concepts

Overload detection group bands

Elastic bands with hydration, BAC and blood oxygen sensors. Friends pair their pins on entry: one buzz means you’re reaching overload, two buzzes means check on your friend.

Overload detection event pass

An event patch that doubles as a day pass for lines, entry and drinks. Its QR code connects to a phone app, and the patch tightens when you’re close to overload.

Event wristband

An elastic band that tracks all three levels. Scan its QR code to see your health stats from the event.

Smart indicator event wristband

Fades between colors to show your state: green for stable, yellow for building, orange for high and red for recover.

Sensing technology research

Flowstate layers three emerging technologies so the sticker can read all three signals without the wearer doing anything.

Bioimpedance sensors

• Hydration

Reads how much water your tissue holds using a current too small to feel. Most accurate once it learns your baseline.

Ink-based tattoo sensors

• BAC
• SpO₂

Circuits printed straight onto skin, thin enough to forget you’re wearing them.

Electronic skin (e-skin)

• BAC
• SpO₂
• Hydration

A stretchy electronic layer that moves with your body and can sense all three signals at once.

Mood board

The visual direction drew on festival craft signs and posters, layered illustration, colored canopies, blue gradients, glowing glass pills, neon bars and lit DJ booths: vibrant and handmade, with a glow that reads in the dark.

Form development

For the sticker patch, I explored how it would show each state, from normal to overload, with hydration, SpO₂ and BAC indicators around the edge.

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   Customizable sticker patch

   Pro “Fun, aesthetic, comfortable, and versatile!”

   Con “Hard to peel off the backing.”

   
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   Light-up sticker

   Pro “Very easy to read. The labels are helpful.”

   Con “Bulky and stiff.”

   
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   QR code band

   Pro “Easy to put on. The QR code is nice to see my health stats in another way.”

   Con “Just the band changing colors isn’t enough to notify the person.”

   
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   Phone-a-friend band

   Pro “So good to have the band notify a friend. It helps to keep each other accountable.”

   Con “How accurately will the technology track my stats if the band shifts?”

   

Meet Flowstate

Applied at the door, Flowstate is a smart, custom-printed sticker that monitors hydration, BAC and oxygen levels in real time. Instead of guessing your limits, it gives you gentle haptic taps when it’s time for water, and lets you scan for a full breakdown of your stats.

The sticker

Because each sticker carries the event’s artwork, it feels like a souvenir, not a medical device, which reduces the stigma of wearing health tech. It’s worn on the chest or upper arm.

Four event versions

• ClubParadise Club
• ConcertP!nk · Fenway Park
• BarDark Horse Tavern
• FestivalLollapalooza

How it’s built

• Layer 1, top protective cover: durable translucent PET film with the event graphic and an adhesive back.
• Layer 2, integrated hardware core: a substrate with a central OLED screen showing overload status, plus red LEDs, piezo actuators for the haptic taps, a PPG sensor and other micro-electronics underneath.
• Layer 3, interconnect bond: a thin, transparent plastic adhesive ring.
• Layer 4, sensor and adhesive interface: a matte cellulose paper disc with screen-printed gold-ink bioimpedance and sensor patterns, and a conductive hydrogel adhesive ring against the skin.

Patch dispenser

At the door, staff use the dispenser to hand each guest an event-branded sticker, which they can then pair with their phone by scanning its QR code to see their live vitals.

Web metrics tracker

A mobile web page, opened from the dispenser’s QR code, with real-time vitals and actionable next steps.

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   Landing page

   Enter your sticker’s unique ID to connect your vitals.

3. 

   Dashboard

   An overload status out of 100, with hydration, BAC and SpO₂ at a glance.

4. 

   Details and haptics

   What each vital means, haptic alerts and one next step.

Storyboard

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   The welcome

   Staff introduce Flowstate at the door, so it feels like part of the night, not a medical check.

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   Securing the vibe

   One sticker, applied in seconds. No app, account or setup.

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   Lost in the flow

   Monitoring runs quietly in the background while he enjoys the night.

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   Checking in

   A gentle tap signals it’s time to slow down, before he feels it himself.

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   Mobile insight

   A quick scan shows his overload score and what’s driving it.

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   Smart step

   He drinks water and gets back to the night, no crash.

• 1st Place · $2,000

  Martin-Rose Humanitarian Design Award

  Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design · May 2026

  Recognizes outstanding undergraduate work in humanitarian design, judged on impact, innovation, and the quality of design execution and presentation.

• 3rd Place · $2,000

  Bredendieck Award

  Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design · May 2026

  A juried, two-stage award for industrial design inspired by Bauhaus principles. The 2026 theme was “Creative Recreation.”

View the 2026 SID Awards ↗ (opens in a new tab)

What’s next

• Pilot Flowstate at a campus concert or local venue to see how people actually respond to the haptic taps and overload score in the moment.
• Decide who can see a person’s health data, including venues and staff, and how to earn users’ trust before they wear it.
• Define the business model and venue integration, including how much Flowstate adds to a ticket.

Indoor air carries more than we notice. Dust builds up from food particles, pollen, fabric fibers, pet dander and insect parts, and outdoor pollutants get in through open doors, windows, vents and cracks in the walls. Curtains and blinds make it worse: they hold dust like a rug does, and every slat of a horizontal blind becomes a dust hotspot.

Growing health awareness

• Market trend

People are paying more attention to the air they breathe at home, and they expect cleaning products to keep up with newer, more advanced technology.

Sources: U.S. EPA, OECD, Grand View Research and Factory Direct Blinds.

I combined a literature review with in-person observation, watching people set up and use air purifiers and humidifiers in their homes. Two personas came out of that research.

Personas

The pet owner

Cathy

82 · Retired author · B.A. in Journalism · Loves needlepoint, baking and her dogs

Core needs

• Clean air during California wildfire season, and less dog hair around the house
• A purifier that’s easy to run and easy to change filters on

Uses today

A Levoit air purifier, a Dyson V7 vacuum and a pet hair removal tool.

The student

Lulit

21 · Student · B.A. in Political Science · Into shopping, hiking and rugby

Core needs

• Living in a tight dorm, she needs clean air so she doesn’t get sick
• No room for extra machines on the floor or desk

Uses today

A Levoit air purifier, a MistAire humidifier and a Dyson V7 vacuum.

Journey map

Based on my in-person observations of real users, I mapped a night with an air purifier in seven stages. People are happiest once it’s running quietly while they sleep. The low points are at the start and the end: finding a spot for it, plugging it in behind the bed, and reaching back there again to unplug it.

Top insights

Six observations from my in-person research, and what each one means for the design.

Humidifier placement

Observation

The humidifier takes up space on the coffee table and feels out of place.

Extension

With no set spot, it seems random and inconvenient. It doesn’t fit the room’s look, and the cord drags across the room.

Design implications

• An aesthetic design language
• A set location that’s still easy to move

Filling a humidifier

Observation

It needs an outside water source, and filling it is done by hand and takes accuracy.

Extension

The water hole is in the center, but the spout can be hard to reach. It needs a way to add water, and constant refills.

Design implications

• An easy way to refill water
• A system that needs refilling less often

Adjusting the purifier

Observation

People change settings by hand on the purifier, so they have to be there to adjust it.

Extension

If you’re not home or want to control it from across the room, you can’t. And with no clear sign when a filter is clogged or full, it can become a health and safety risk.

Design implications

• Smart control from your phone
• Cordless, so it can go anywhere

Assembling the purifier

Observation

Many parts have to fit together in a set order, which makes it hard to handle.

Extension

More parts means more upkeep and more storage for spares. More work makes the product less appealing.

Design implications

• Fewer parts, or ones that explain themselves
• Simple assembly instructions

Purifiers at work

Observation

They’re large and run on a cord that plugs into the wall.

Extension

They take up space that many people, especially college students, don’t have. The cord limits where they can go and becomes a tripping hazard.

Design implications

• A set location, or a second purpose, so it doesn’t just take up space
• Cordless, for easy placement

Changing filters

Observation

There are many sheet filters to replace, and they’re hard to reach because they fit so tightly.

Extension

People with limited hand strength may struggle to remove and replace them. It’s also unclear which ones to order just by looking at them.

Design implications

• Filters that slide in and out from the top, not the side
• Self-cleaning filters, so they need replacing less often and cost less over time

Technology breakdown

To understand how air purifiers work, I took one apart and studied how air moves through it, where the filter sits and how it gets replaced.

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   The purifier I took apart: a compact Levoit HEPA model.

2. 
   2

   Top view: the control panel, with clean air released through the vents around it.

3. 
   3

   Flipped over: the base twists to open.

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   4

   With the cap off, the filter slides out of the body.

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   The HEPA filter, lined with a pre-filter to collect dust and airborne particles.

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   Taken apart: main body, filter and base cap.

Design objective

To design an air purification system for allergy-prone people that uses advanced filtration to clear the smallest, most stubborn pollutants, leaving them healthier and their space cleaner.

Competitive landscape

I mapped more than 30 purifiers and humidifiers. The ones that clean well have no set place, so they end up on the floor.

Technology research

I compared emerging filtration technologies and market trends. Kluno uses layered filtration: a pre-filter that catches larger dust and hair, a HEPA filter for fine particles and an activated carbon filter for odors.

Electrostatic precipitators

• Filtration

Use an electric charge to pull tiny particles out of the air. They’re very good at catching the smallest particles, so demand for them is high.

HyperHEPA technology

• Filtration

A type of filtration that can trap particles as small as 0.003 microns, which greatly reduces exposure to bacteria and viruses.

Ionic filters

• Filtration
• Market trend

Ionic filters don’t need to be changed often, and their share of the cleaning device market is expected to grow quickly in the coming years.

Design criteria

Mood board

Soft whites, warm grays and a touch of powder blue, with clean, rounded forms that disappear into a bright room.

I sketched 30 concepts across purifiers, humidifiers, vacuums and smart home ideas, then refined ten of them in color. The strongest put the purifier on the window: it gets a set place off the floor and can clean the blinds, one of the dustiest spots in the room.

Moving on to the next round

Three window concepts, each exploring a different way to hang the purifier and change its filters.

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   Smart window hanging air purification system with blinds

2. 

   Smart air purification system with blinds

3. 

   Smart tension air purification system with blinds

Sketch models

My sketch models showed me the scale of the purifier and how it would hang on a window.

Refined concepts

What I learned from the models went into three more refined concepts, with the purifier hanging from the trim or a support bar.

4. 

   Lift and replace HEPA air purification blinds

5. 

   High-tech air purification blinds

6. 

   Trim-hanging air purification blinds

1:1 sketch model

I built a full-size model out of chipboard and foam core from a starter orthographic drawing, adjusting the design as I crafted it.

In critique, a classmate tested the 1:1 chipboard model on a wall-mounted window frame. Watching him use it showed me what worked and what didn’t.

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   1

   Lifting it into place

   Pros

   • Sets the purifier off the ground, freeing up floor space
   • Can be adjusted to fit the window and room

   Cons

   • Quite bulky, which makes it heavy to lift
   • Built-in blinds won’t match the other blinds in the room

2. 

   2

   Leveling it

   Pros

   • Easy to level, because the blinds bar fits right between the window trim

   Cons

   • Lifting and straightening something bulky strained his forearm, and could be unsafe for some people

3. 

   3

   Changing the settings

   Pros

   • Easy-to-touch buttons with plenty of options

   Cons

   • Has to be adjusted in person or from a phone; another option, like a remote, could help

Revised concept

Using the testing feedback, I made the purifier smaller and moved the HEPA filter to the side so it’s easy to remove and replace.

Meet Kluno

Kluno is a smart air purifier that clips onto the rod of the blinds you already have and rests on the window trim. It clears floor space, releases clean air straight into the room and keeps the blinds below it free of dust.

The product

A soft, rounded body with embossed controls on the front, micro intake holes on top and clean air release holes underneath.

Details

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  Embossed controls

• 

  Micro air intake holes

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  Clean air release holes

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  Easy-to-grip filter handle

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  Charging and power port

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  3M adhesives

Views

• End
• Side
• Angled
• Front
• Back

How it works

A cylindrical filter slides in from the side. A fan pulls air through it, and metal blades direct the clean air down toward the blinds.

1. Pre-filter lines the inside of the HEPA filter and catches larger dust and hair.
2. HEPA filter traps fine airborne particles.
3. Activated carbon filter absorbs odors.
4. Easy-grip cap twists to pull the filter out from the side.

How it mounts

Kluno hangs from the window trim and holds the rod of your blinds, so the blinds hang from Kluno.

• Fits a variety of blinds. The sliding stabilizer expands to hold most blind rods.
• Sits on the trim. A gap fits window trim up to 5 inches, and 3M double-sided foam tape keeps it steady.
• Cleans the blinds. Clean air flows down across the blinds so dust doesn’t settle.

Controls and app

Adjust Kluno with the buttons on the front, or from the Kluno app if the window is too high.

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   Buttons on the front

   • Power
   • Slow, medium and fast speed
   • Bluetooth
   • Button lights
   • Night mode
2. 

   Welcome

   Pair your Kluno and get started.

3. 

   Purifiers

   Air quality, filter life, health data and settings for every Kluno at home.

I modeled Kluno in Fusion 360, 3D printed the parts and finished them by hand into a 60% scale appearance model. Scaled down to fit printer capabilities.

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   Print

   3D printed the purifier parts from the Fusion 360 model.

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   2

   Fill and prime

   Spackled the gaps and seams, then sprayed sandable filler primer.

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   3

   Paint

   Spray painted the parts to match the finishes and materials in the CAD model.

Appearance model

A classmate used the final scaled model to demonstrate changing the filter, mounting it, and the steps in between.

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   Find the slot

   Take a clean filter and find the filter slot.

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   Insert the filter

   Slide the new filter into the side of your Kluno.

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   3

   Expand the holder

   Pull out the blind stabilizer to widen the slot.

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   4

   Add the blinds

   Place the rod of your blinds into the holder on the back.

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   5

   Mount it

   Lift Kluno to the top of the window and press it into place with the 3M adhesives.

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   6

   Set it

   Adjust the settings with the buttons on the front, or from the app.

• Build it at full size, early. The 1:1 cardboard model showed me problems sketches couldn’t, like weight and strain, and led to the biggest change in the design.
• Product and app are one experience. Designing the buttons and the app together meant people could choose how to control Kluno, instead of having to reach the window.
• Fit what people already have. Working with existing blinds and window trim made Kluno simpler, lighter and easier to adopt than replacing them.

What’s next

• Design blinds made for Kluno, built in or as a separate attachment.
• Add a remote control, alongside the app and the buttons.
• Add a light that signals when the filter needs changing.

Uber knows a lot about driver strain: how long someone has been driving, when, and in what conditions. Today it turns that knowledge into incentives, not care. Meanwhile drivers sit for hours at a time, and it shows up as back pain, legs falling asleep, poor sleep and stress.

Why is the driver’s body the only part of the system that runs without maintenance?

What Uber offers today

Uber’s products center on connecting people with services through its app, from rides to deliveries to scooters. None of them look after the drivers who make it all run.

Uber’s design language

Uber Endura had to read as an Uber product at first glance. I studied Uber’s mission, values, color palette, product voice and typography, and let them guide every design decision.

“Igniting opportunity by setting the world in motion.”

Brand values

• Movement & flow
• Trust & safety
• Simplicity & clarity

Color palette

What already exists

Uber already has a health product. Uber Health lets healthcare organizations book rides for patients. It’s built around patients and clinics, not the person driving.

“Healthcare organizations can help resolve patients’ transportation issues by requesting door-to-door non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) and wheelchair rides from credentialed drivers directly in a centralized, easy-to-use dashboard or an API.”

— Uber Health

Personas

Two personas kept me focused on different kinds of drivers: a full-time driver supporting a family, and a student driving late at night.

Design objective

Design a driver-centric seat cover that turns passive sitting into active care, translating time and stress indicators into preventative physical support that helps Uber drivers sustain their bodies and focus through long shifts.

Design criteria

I sketched 30 thumbnails across the car and the driver’s body: steering wheel covers, foot platforms, light bars, glasses, gloves, seat covers and more.

Three directions

I pushed three ideas further, each one easing strain in a different way.

Uber Control

A seat cover that massages, supports and calms the driver in response to stress or time, between rides or based on driving patterns.

Uber Glasses

Glasses whose lenses darken when a ride ends to signal a break, with calming vibrations, heating and cooling, and day and night modes.

Uber Light Bar

An end-of-ride marker that signals a mental reset, with lighting that changes based on the last ride’s length and the stress it detects.

Refining the seat cover

I took the seat direction forward and developed it into a supportive seat cover.

• Spine support. Lumbar and sacral cushions support the lower back.
• Four zones. Front and rear, left and right sections inflate to support blood flow and ease tension.
• Simple controls. Hold a button to inflate, press once to deflate step by step, press twice to massage.
• Manual or automatic. Drivers can adjust it themselves, or let it respond to stress and time.
• Easy to fit. It grips the seat with a simple buckle and plugs into the car’s charging port.

Meet Uber Endura

The time- and stress-responsive seat cover that makes driving a sustainable practice. It slides over the driver’s seat, and buttons on the side of the cushion control support, pressure and massage.

Black perforated leather and a quiet tone-on-tone wordmark keep Endura in Uber’s matte, minimal language, so it looks like part of the car. A sculpted backrest wraps the lower back, and a row of five buttons on the side of the cushion lets drivers adjust it without looking away from the road.

How it works

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   Bring it to the car

   The seat cover folds up and moves with the driver from car to car.

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   Pull it over the seat

   Slide the cover over the cushion and up the backrest.

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   Plug it in

   Connect the cushion to the car charger to charge it.

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   Adjust it

   Use the buttons on the side, or let it readjust on its own.

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   Feel the support

   Zones inflate and massage to support the back and legs while you drive.

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   Turn it off

   Turn the seat cover off when it’s not in use.

Here’s what people said when they saw the final concept.

Uber is in the right position to build this. It already has:

• Continuous, real-world insight into strain, from time, behavior and context.
• A direct physical environment: the car itself.
• Daily, repeated touchpoints with every driver.
• Incentive alignment. Healthier drivers stay on the road longer.

The driver’s body shouldn’t be the only part of the system that runs without maintenance.

• Designing inside a brand is its own skill. Uber’s colors, Uber Move type and matte finishes meant every choice had to fit an existing system, not just look good on its own. The black leather, clean wordmark and minimal button row all came from that system.
• Design language is experiential, too. Uber’s values of movement, trust and simplicity shaped how Endura behaves, not just how it looks. It slides on in seconds, runs on a few buttons and can adjust on its own, so it fits into a driver’s shift the way the Uber app does.
• Fitting the brand makes a concept believable. People kept saying it “follows Uber’s aesthetic.” Matching the brand helped them picture Uber actually making it, which made the case for driver care stronger.

Most College of Design work lives in studios, process books and final reviews, so few people outside each school ever see it. Our goal was to fill the IMZ, a curved LED wall with touchscreen stations in Georgia Tech’s library, with a complete exhibit that anyone walking by could explore.

Where it started

Our first proposal was a Virtual CoD City Tour: a virtual city projected onto the back of the College of Design’s main staircase. Stepping into a spotlight, visitors could move through the city with hand gestures or let it play on its own, zooming in from a city planning project to architecture, building construction and industrial design, with music students’ soundtracks in the background.

From there, the project evolved in six stages. We moved it from the atrium to the IMZ, shifted from a guided virtual tour to a city visitors explore at their own pace, and refined the look from realistic renders to a hand-drawn sketchbook style.

Milestone 1

Audience and flow

We mapped how people would move through the city, either on a guided tour that stops at each location or exploring on their own, then wireframed each path and explored three visual directions.

Wireframes

Based on the user flow, we wireframed each direction a visitor could take: following the tour path, the tour simulation itself, and self-guided exploration.

Three visual directions

Futuristic

A glowing, metaverse-style city with dark neon colors, built around the innovative work CoD students make.

Playful

A less literal, cartoon-like city with big, clear buttons, where the real projects stand out from the drawn backgrounds.

Realistic

Natural lighting and realistic renders, with filler buildings that make the city feel full and let the projects stand out.

Potential experiences

Milestone 2

Refining the concept

After sharing these directions and gathering feedback, we simplified the user flow and wireframes, explored how to highlight each project within the city, and designed a freestanding screen for the College of Design atrium.

Updated user flow

Self-guided exploration became a simpler path: open the map, choose an area, and drop into the tour from there.

Updated wireframes

Highlighting the projects

In the realistic direction, a white sketch line traced around each featured project so it would stand out from the realistic city around it. That idea of drawing attention to the projects themselves carried forward, but in the end we chose an illustrated, sketchy visual direction for the whole city instead of realistic renders.

In the atrium

A two-button console let visitors rotate and press to select places on the map, and switch their view of a project.

Milestone 3

Moving to the IMZ

The exhibit moved to the IMZ, a curved LED wall with ten touchscreens in the library. We tested three ways to use the space, each with a looping video on the big screen where outlines are sketched onto projects.

Hero signage

Each of the ten screens is a journey through one school’s projects.

Exhibit

Five pairs of screens: tap one to start a tour, watch it play on the other, with project info popping up on the wall.

Presentation centered

A podium in the middle of the room lets people choose between five tours.

Milestone 4

Organizing the city

We organized the wall into four districts of a city: residential, park, commercial and downtown. Buildings in each district give context for the projects on the touchscreens below. In the commercial district, for example, a shoe store would sit on the big screen above a shoe designed by an industrial design major on the kiosk screen below.

Milestone 5

Designing the touchscreens

We built the first kiosk screens using a sample project, a wooden bath stool, to test the flow from “Touch to begin” to the project in context, its ideation and its final design.

Collecting the projects

With the screens taking shape, we went looking for student work to fill the city. We reached out to students in all five schools in the College of Design: industrial design, music technology, architecture, city and regional planning and building construction. For each project, we gathered existing project material: process books, images, models, renders, and videos.

Milestone 6

Drawing the backdrop and prototyping

We drew the first full backdrop across the LED wall’s three screens. Included were the residential, park, shopping, downtown, and bridge regions, with “City Tour” titled in the middle. We built a working prototype of one kiosk touchscreen as well.

For the final exhibit, I redrew the backdrop brighter and lighter so the projects would pop, and designed screens for all nine projects.

The backdrop

I drew the entire backdrop in Procreate. Each featured project got its own landmark on the map, marked with a red pin. Filler buildings, roads and hills tie them into one city. The bridge at the center carries the “College of Design City Tour” title.

Project landmarks

The touch stations

Ten touchscreens run along the base of the wall. The first introduces the experience and stays still; the other nine each belong to one project. I designed the screens for every project, in the same light, hand-drawn style as the wall above.

One project, five screens

Each project plays out over five screens. For Capsule Collision, a bathhouse by Caleb Dortzbach, the station starts with a looping sketch of the building, then moves from the project overview to animated sections, concept sketches and physical models.

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   Check out the bathhouse

   A looping hand-drawn sketch of the bathhouse invites visitors to tap in.

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   2

   Meet the project

   The title, class, prompt and designer.

3. 3

   Inside the building

   An animated section cuts through the capsules.

4. 4

   Concept sketches

   Early sketches show how the capsules could intersect.

5. 5

   Physical modeling

   Cardboard, wood, 3D-printed and plaster models.

Two more projects, five screens each:

Custom Synthesizer · Music technology

FIDO · Industrial design

CoD City ran on the IMZ in Price Gilbert Library for our final review, and stayed up through the end of the fall 2025 semester and into spring 2026. The backdrop looped across the wall while visitors stepped up to the stations to explore each project.

• Design at full scale from the start. The backdrop ran at 7680×2160 across a curved wall, and each station had its own dimensions. Setting up every drawing, image and video at its final size and resolution from the beginning kept the work sharp on the wall, not just on a laptop.
• Bringing UX to interactive experiences. This project applied my UX skills to a new kind of design. Visitors walk up with no instructions, so the experience has to be intuitive enough to start without help and engaging enough to keep them tapping through every screen.