Design Hero mobile experience

Spring 2024

timeframe: 1 month

building a digital world around a body of work

project brief: create a mobile experience honoring the work of a chosen “design hero”; someone you admire whose design work inspires you

for this project i: developed engaging user interactions to frame informative text, while keeping heavy stylistic flair

  • Figma
  • Adobe Illustrator

The Design Hero projects are a series of projects I did in the spring semester of 2024, focused around a “design hero” -- a designer whose work we admired. I chose Kiel Mutschelknaus, a programmer/motion designer. We were then tasked with making a poster, a 16 page booklet, a website, a motion graphics video in After Effects, and a mobile experience, each reflecting the work of our hero and the narrative of their career.

For the mobile experience, I experimented as much as possible with conventions of interaction and organizational structure. Mutschelknaus's work is highly customizable, and I designed the experience to reflect the beauty that can arise from the chaos of so much choice. I intended for each page to appear drastically different. The entire project was prototyped within Figma.