Revisited: Aesthetic Interfaces 2015 Exhibition
Aesthetic Interfaces students exhibited UIs they developed on May 8, 2015. Projects approached UI design from many angles and different purposes including a new planner lifestyle app Flair (Ankita Bholse), Calbug (Gracen Brilmyer), a user-friendly and navigable upgrade to the UC Berkeley Esigg Museum of Entomology's digital archive, Rebook (Meredith Hitchock), a radical revisioning of electronic book reading which approaches e-reading from a computer interface perspective rather than as a electronic conversion of a physical book to TIRO (Sophia Lay), an application designed for small-scale workers' rights NGOs operating in China's industrial Pearl River Delta to record, log, and analyze workers' calls, and many more.
Students were challenged to find ways to design UIs which met the needs that the application set out to fulfill while also providing a pleasant and appealing interface. Students learned how fonts, color choices, spacing, menu tree banking, and option limitations could enhance user experiences.
Special thanks go to instructor Kimiko Ryokai.