Hexabot App Design Concept for Lunar Environments
Polina Egorova
Brief
Hexabot was created for DesignFlows 2025 — an international digital product design competition focused on designing future-oriented experiences under tight deadlines.
The challenge was to design part of a service flow for controlling assistant robots used by people living and working on the Moon.
I joined the challenge late and had only a few days to develop the concept, research the context and build the interface system from scratch.
The Challenge...
...was in understanding how interaction design changes in extreme physical environments.
On the Moon:
people wear gloves and spacesuits
visibility is limited
movement becomes harder
stress levels are higher
interaction speed becomes critical
The interface needed to feel:
intuitive
physically accessible
emotionally understandable
fast under pressure
Design Process!
Since there are no real consumer products for lunar robot management, I approached the project through speculative research and physical experimentation. I explored:
robotics interfaces
voice assistants
workflow systems
accessibility patterns
But the most important part was empathy simulation.
To better understand the physical limitations of lunar environments, I:
wore snowboarding gloves while testing interactions
simulated blurred vision conditions
tested interface readability at distance
experimented with large touch targets and gesture mechanics
So, my key insights! Users needed alternative control methods - voice, gestures, eyes and etc. And people are living on the moon. Them are not just working, them possibly have home tasks and home robots as well
Researches, wireframes, than design, testing, design, testing blahblahbla...let's move to results!
Hexabot App Design Concept – Resource Collection for a Turbine Prototype
Switching to work mode
Task management
Looking through timetable
Hexabots list
System stuff: errors, losing of hexabot and etc.
The final result became a speculative interface system exploring how humans might interact with robotic assistants in future lunar environments. Hexabot became one of my favorite projects because it pushed me beyond traditional interface design, so, it was amazing experience!
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Posted May 24, 2026
Designed a speculative interface for lunar robot management for DesignFlows 2025
