Collection: Revive digital UX

Overview

The REVIVE concept smartphone aims to provide people with the latest technology by upgrading and re-manufacturing their existing hardware. It uses materials that become more beautiful with age and a membership scheme that rewards users who keep their product for longer.

As part of the team at international design consultancy kinneir dufort, I was briefed and given the responsibility to design the graphic user interface (GUI) of the phone.

Although in principle I was only required to demonstrate how an onboard diagnostics system might work, I wanted to make the digital interface just as important to the concept and brand as the rest of the phone.

My belief is that even if a product and accompanying system is designed to be functionally sustainable, people will still be attracted to the concept of something that is ‘brand new’.

I believe the key to designing long lasting products, above function, is to make people become emotionally attached to them. I used the REVIVE GUI to show how this might be done using a character hosted menu system.