Project - Together Apart
Conceptualization, UI/UX, Illustration
Role - Understand and identify challenges faced in remote conferencing. Develop concepts that explore the new set up and design premium networking experiences
Agency - Sosolimited
Design Partner - Wade Aaron
Overview
Making meaningful connections and support fluid exchange of ideas at virtual events
As the world confronts COVID19, digital conferences have become the new normal. This leads to some questions, how do you create a sense of shared experience? How do you deliver an event that is more special and effective when experienced remotely?
I worked with Soso to design concepts that explores and address some of these larger questions.
Remote
Placemaking
How do you create a physical sense of place?
A premium unboxing experience of event materials elicits joy and generates anticipation for something special yet to come on conference day.
Tangible signifiers blend the physical experience into the digital context, and create the sense of shared space among remote attendees.
Enter into New
Experiences
How do you create a sense of anticipation and arrival into something special?
Arrival to a great digital event requires mental transition from the home office to somewhere else
The shared experience of waiting in a lobby forges first connections with other participants.
Tangible signifiers blend the physical experience into the digital context, and create the sense of shared space among remote attendees.
Platforms for
Conversation
How do you facilitate the fluid exchange of ideas?
Transcend physical separation and encourage fluid exchanges of ideas.
Selectively disrupt normal patterns, promoting openness, and new perspective.
Throwing Dice and Breaking Ice
How do you promote chance encounters and spontaneous collaboration?
Through shared interests and complimentary objectives, algorithmic matchmaking places participants into small social groups between sessions.
Background replacement and blended video enable co-occupancy of a shared space.Neutral context encourage spontaneous interactions.
Place Bodies
in Space
How do you create a sense of shared experience?
Create the sensation of proximity through spatial audio visual signifiers or audience neighborhoods
Organize physical activities and mutual group connection with the body.
After Party
How do you provide compelling social experiences at the conclusion of an event?
Creating compelling social experiences by coordinating eating and drinking activities into shared moments.
Post-event social graphs reveal community connections made over the course of the event.
