NAC@50+
Project Type: Interactive Storytelling
Overview: NAC@50+ was developed to celebrate 50 years of Canada's National Arts Centre. The goal was to create an engaging experience that would allow people across Canada to see inside the building and learn about it's history. Those who had never been inside should be able to feel like they're in the space, and frequent visitors should see something they've never seen before inside the building.
Role: Team lead, UI / UX Designer, Developer; features and user interface
Toolkit: Figma, Unreal Engine, 3DS Max, Maya, Adobe Suite
Images and video property of Carleton Immersive Media Studio.
The basic flow through the experience
Wireframes
Initial Investigation: the main menu
- Create a menu that contains a list of artifacts to find, a map, and a list of rooms in the selected narrative
- How can the menu take up as little screen space as possible, to keep the user as immersed as possible in the building?
- During the guided sections (with a preset camera path but free rotation), the user may want to see where they are on the map, but hide the list, as they are not in a room to search for artifacts yet
- Clicking on a discovered artifact in the list should bring up more information and a close up of the 3D model / image / video
Mockups
First Iteration
- Apply NAC brand colours
- How do we indicate discovered vs undiscovered artifacts?
Final Mockups
- Simplify palette and use brand purple as an accent
- Widened the menu to accomodate longer chunks of text
- Sectioned menu more clearly
- Fullscreen map cut; simplify to mini-map only
- Added non-narrative related features to top left (home and settings)
