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Diegetic Debris Menu
Rethinking the Start Menu
A Start Menu is one of the most conventional pieces of game UI. It works, it's familiar, and it's usually designed to get out of the player's way.
For this UI Forge study, I wanted to challenge that assumption.
Unreal Engine has some incredibly powerful features that are usually associated with gameplay, environments, VFX, or cinematics. Chaos Destruction is one of them. Destruction is visually exciting and, for some reason, watching things break apart is incredibly satisfying.
So I started with a simple question:
What happens if I take one of Unreal's coolest features and push it outside of its usual context, into UI?
That led to the Diegetic Debris Menu.
Instead of displaying menu text as a conventional overlay, the menu exists physically in the game world. Each option is represented by a pile of fractured debris. When selected, the debris rebuilds into a readable word. Navigate away and it collapses back into debris.
The goal wasn't simply to make a menu look different. I wanted to create a different experience from interacting with a familiar piece of UI.
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The brief I gave myself was structural, not decorative: design a page where every section earns the next one. Hero makes one claim and gets out of the way. The value proposition comes before any feature gets named — because a feature nobody understands yet is just noise. Proof (testimonial, logos) sits right before the final ask, not scattered earlier where it does nothing.
Art direction followed the same logic — high contrast where the page needs to make a claim, quieter and more editorial where it needs to build trust. The layout isn't there to look good in isolation. It's there to move someone from "what is this" to "I trust this" in one scroll.
Love the colors dude! Hell of a work🔥
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The design challenge was therefore less about showing everything the product can do and more about creating a clear narrative around why the product matters.
The result is a concept focused on progressive storytelling, helping visitors move from problem → product → capabilities → value → action.
Outstanding
One of my earlier projects was creating an explainer video for MerchantSpring, showing how agencies can consolidate e-commerce analytics, reporting, and AI-driven insights onto a single platform.
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nice pacing on this one
