LAYERED SURFACE
Layered surface is a foldable, dual-screen phone consisting of transparent display and OLED.
It creates border-less user experience between real-world and mobile environment.
Role : UX Designer
Mainly contributed in developing use cases, UI and interaction design, and patenting.
Period : 2015
DESIGN GOAL
Expand user experience from mobile to real world with transparent display and Augmented Reality technology.
RESEARCH
Use Case Brainstorming
AR technology is suggested a new technology to bring reality into our mobile phones. Transparent display can make this AR service be realized intuitively. To find usage of this transparent display on mobile phone, AR services in outdoor environment, indoor, and with object were considered.
Hardware Availability and Patent Search
There were several ways to implement a transparent display into the existing mobile hardware. So we discussed feasible way to implement it with transparent display experts from Samsung Display. We also searched related patents on interaction and hardware architecture. This information is confidential.
PRODUCT DESIGN CONCEPT
A mobile phone having a single transparent display has a lot of challenges such as hiding electronic wires and components in a bezel and bringing power from a battery. These issues make the transparent mobile really thick or have too large bezel. To keep clear view from transparent display, dual screen phone consisting of one transparent display and one OLED was suggested. All wires and electronic components can be hidden underneath of OLED, and power for the transparent display can be brought from the battery on OLED.
UX DESIGN
Adaptive Home Screen UX
Home screen that offers continuous updating contents through the surrounding environment.
At Home
Outdoor
In Hospital
Hyper-linked UX
Detecting products in a store / people around you reflected on the transparent screen and offering linked online shop / tagging SNS.
Detecting an Object
Detecting a Person
Bordless Camera UX
Creating new contents by taking photos as projected on the transparent screen with layered mobile contents.
From Reality to Mobile
From Mobile to Reality
Smart Filter UX
Information optimizing UX in response to the interaction of folding and overlapping the screens
Floating Prior Information
Filtering Frequently Used Function
Curating Contents
UX Prototype
Detect a product and show a linked online information
Capture an object and layer on another object to make a composite picture
Open a transparent display and filter the frequently played music
ACHIEVEMENTS
iF Design Award 2016 - Winner
“Breaking the boundaries between the real world and mobile service” – this transparent dual phone offers a UX of continuous interaction between the real life of the users and mobile service through an innovative dual mobile device composed of a transparent display on one screen. Through curating the information needed in the environment surrounding the users on the transparent screen so that it can be blended with the real environment, this device dramatically reduces the time spent finding optimized functions in a specific context. Moreover, it maximizes the accessibility to major information of mobile service by layering two screens."
-iF Jury Statement