Blooming Sydney

Alex Harbin Design Sprint 2024

University of Sydney x Atlassian

Blooming Sydney is an AR platform that is accessed on public transportation that invites you to discover and upload the flowers of stories that make Sydney unique.

Done as a part of the Atlassian's Alex Harbin Design Sprint 2024, this project was done over a span of 02 weeks.

Team

Manahil Uzair

My Primary Role

Live AR Garden Experience

Interactive AR Card Expereince

Date

November 2024

Design Brief

Design a space of connection for Sydneysiders and Tourists, where multicultural, historical and environmental richness of Sydney enables meaningful, multi-faceted, lasting connections.

What is in common?

How do humans connect?

We found that humans form an emotional connection with each other by experiencing life, and sharing their experiences amongst each other.

Final Proposal

Blooming Sydney, an AR platform, accessed on public transportation that invites you to discover and upload the flowers of stories that make Sydney unique. When you view the public transport through your phone, a field of flowers, all unique to Sydney's flora, appear in front of you.

With each flower, hidden right behind a touch, is a story and an experience someone planted. Users can spend their time reading through everyone's experiences, or uploading their own.

Super Cool Video

Made by Alianna Li, Zane He

Process Breakdown👇🏼

Our design principles

Everyday

Not to be limited to particular time and days.

Inclusive

Not limited to one small cohort.

Fun

Attracts more people to experience it with pleasure.

User Journey

Illustrated by Zane He

AR Garden Experience

Designed by Me! (Software: SnapAR)

As a part of the presentation, we performed a live demonstration of what the interactive AR Garden experience could look like, built from scratch (thanks to many all nighters, cold coffees, and tears)

I created a 3d mesh (the black thing!) of the presentation room to ensure accuracy of asset placement (so the flowers aren't flying or on someone's head)

Next step? an interactive AR Garden Demo!

The faces are blurred as we did not take explicit permission from everyone to publicize the image, but I promise everyone is smiling.

Interactive AR Card

Designed by Me! (Software: Meta Spark Studio)

As a part of the presentation, we performed a live demonstration of what the interactive collectable cards (designed by Zane He and Yixuan Chen) would look like through the AR lens. Every card has a unique flower, which would pop out into a 3d bloom when viewed through the AR lens.

Static Collectable cards

Viewed through the AR lens

Viewed through the AR lens

Final Webapp Design

Designed by Zane He

Scanning the pattern

Scanning the pattern

Sharing a story

Writing your story

Planting and saving your story