Virtual History

Virtual History was designed over eight weeks as part of MCAD’s User Experience Design Systems and Prototyping Concepts course. During this time, we focused on building a design system, prototyping, and user testing.


This app was designed with two problems in mind:

  • Making historical information educational and entertaining in a digital and interactive format.

  • Making mobile AR accessible and easy to use for all consumers.

With accessibility as a point of focus, I wanted to ensure colors, fonts and buttons fitted the criteria for some levels of visual impairment and created a design system withn this in mind.

Early testing indicated that buttons, their active and inactive states, closed captions and instruction boxes needed multiple options to be designed for further testing, while keeping as much screen space free as possible for camera interaction.

Final design: