Role: Interactive and UI Designer Tool: Spline (Hana), MidJourney, Adobe Lightroom, Framer Hana Techniques: Liquid Glass • 3D transforms • AutoLayout • States and Events Tools Used for Video Presentation: Ae, Pr, Artlist

The Interactive Carousel is designed as part of a Contra+Spline(Hana) contest, aiming to explore a use case on the National Geographic website. It was made in a glassmorphism HUD style.

Basically, I wanted to explore how National Geographic could present a summary of some species in a modern UI with targeting overlay vibes, using glass with a high aberration effect for a subtle moment during interactions, and keeping the immersive feeling with micro motion.

To create a real-world use case concept that follows NatGeo vibes without infringing on any copyright issues, a key visual UI element was securing the right images for the prototype presentation. There were many attempts and corrections, testing different prompts with MidJourney and testing in the UI until I got the final images I wanted to play it as “Photography” on the concept.

After being happy with the selected outputs from MJ, I retouched the images in Adobe Lightroom, achieving a more polished result across color, style, lighting, and other parameters. Also, to get the BW version for each one.

Designing all the UI and interactions in Spline(Hana), having also designed using Liquid Glass, 3D transforms and other style effects, hover some elements and States and Events to handle the interactions and the micro interactions.