Alien Touch
The design of user experience – at both the digital and the tactile levels – has evolved to promote endless engagement. Alien Touch critiques our technology obsession by exploring ways to interrupt digital cycles of attraction through the use of physical augmentations to device screens. This project defamiliarizes the digital interface, modulating our attention through other tactile senses—a material-based exploration that interrupts addictive digital interactions, rethinking Our Relationship with the Smartphone Screen.
Type
UX Design，
Speculative Design,
Material Exploring,
3D Modeling，
Product Design
Specification
Rhino,
3D Printing,
Figma
Time
09.2023-04.2024
Problem
With the rise of social media, people — myself included — have developed compulsive smartphone usage habits. Existing solutions focus mainly on digital restrictions, overlooking the tactile and sensory aspects that shape our interaction with devices.
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Goal
To explore material-based interventions for smartphone screens that disrupt habitual digital engagement, encourage multi-sensory interaction, and reframe the way people physically relate to their devices.
Process
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Behavior Study → Observed and analyzed patterns of compulsive phone use.
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Material Experiments → Developed multiple alternative tactile surfaces for phone screens.
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User Testing → Documented reactions through photography, video for iterating.
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Final Version Design
