Working closely with Strategy team on project vision. Collaborating with UX/UI designers on motion design, and participating in brainstorming, design development. Fully responsible for prototyping and made multiple functional prototype under the guidance of project vision.
All the projects here are partially documented due to confidentiality agreement, if you are interested in these projects or my experience at Gensler in general, let’s chat!
TIME: July 2019 — Aug. 2019 | 8 Weeks
TEAM: Gensler Digital Experience Design (Team of 5)
ROLE: Creative Programming, Experience Design, Physical prototyping
TOOL: TouchDesigner, AfterEffect, Arduino, Keynote
LOCATION: Tokyo, Japan
Brief: Gensler, Tokyo office is looking for a platform that is able to bridge the physical and the digital word.
My role: Research on technologies that provide instant feedback and easy to set up, then build a function prototype for concept testing.
Tool: TouchDesigner, RFID Reader, RFID Tags, Arduino
RFID is a short distance communication technology between a receiver(RFID reader) and transmitters(RFID Tags).
I paired up the RFID technology with Touchdesigner and created a prototype that communicates information that a RFID tag contains to Touchdesigner and visually present the information.
Brief: We Are Wall is a video projected on a wall that is built on the main reception floor of Gensler's Tokyo offices. It showcases all employees who works there, which requires constant updates when a new employee is hired. It takes hours to upload, replace and render videos in After Effects
My role: Recreated Video Content Management System by utilizing Touchdesigner which cuts the time necessary for uploading and replacing videos by a factor of 360.
Tools: TouchDesigner
Before I implemented a new Content Management system, a digital designer used to spend an entire day replacing and exporting videos from After Effects.
After implement the new system, it only takes around 30 mins to replacing and rendering a video.
I’m very grateful for the full support and trust that my team gave me over this eight-week period to handle this project independently. In order to understand this project better, I had to consult different departments including IT, strategy team, design team and research team which gave me a holistic view of how different departments collaborate with each other.
Throughout the internship, TouchDesigner was the major tool of choice for me. It was the perfect tool for communicating information between the digital and physical world. Hence, I'm doing a 100-day challenge of learning Touchdesigner to sharpen up my TouchDesigner skillset.
