PROJECT:
CHANGE THE CURRENTS
CLIENT: Carnival Cruise Line
LOCATION: Carnival Jubilee, Galveston, TX
As Art Director and UX Designer, I led the design of Change the Currents—a guest-facing touchscreen experience aboard the Carnival Jubilee that lets users transform the surrounding environment with custom underwater animations. I developed a user-friendly interface that required no onboarding, ensuring guests of all ages could engage intuitively. The experience blended responsive visual feedback with large-scale media integration, aligning with Carnival’s brand while supporting seamless guest interaction across physical and digital layers.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Art direction and UI/UX design for the interactive touchscreen kiosk
- Development of a visual system for animated underwater themes
- Interface design for intuitive, no-instruction interaction
- Brand alignment across screen UI and environmental media
- Collaboration with developers to ensure responsive feedback and system integration
THE INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE: From the kiosk, guests can choose from a selection of environments to immerse themselves with fully rendered underwater themes.
DESIGN APPROACH: The UI is simple, elegant, and intuitive, aimed at being user-friendly for curious Carnival guests on the move. Across the balcony on this 2-story immersive underwater deck, are six large LED screens that display beautiful underwater scenes designed by Infinite Infinite World Studios, showcasing breathtaking underwater wonders. To start the guest experience, a simple menu interface previews the six environments they can choose from, directly linking what they see on the kiosk in front of them to what will be displayed on the large LED screens lining the atrium wall across from them. Additionally, I ensured all UI menus and button placements are carefully measured for accessibility to children and handicapped guests. Lastly, I helped design the parallelogram shaped touch screen kiosk stand and helped ensure visual consistency with the touchscreen and the LED windows.
Check out the Currents Zone interactive in action! (Tap video for sound)
