One system, different priorities
The dashboard keeps a consistent foundation while surfacing different information for visitors, artists and staff.
02 / UX/UI Design
LUMIERE
A customizable festival dashboard designed to give visitors, artists and staff a clearer way to plan and experience Lumiere.
Creative direction / UX/UI2025
Overview
A light festival serves several audiences at once. Visitors want to plan, artists need their work represented clearly and staff need useful information without forcing everyone through the same experience.
- Timeline
- February to March 2025
- Role
- Creative Director and UX/UI Designer.
- Collaborators
- Selina Yang and Simran Chepru
- Audience
- Festival visitors, participating artists and event staff
What the work needed to do
We designed a customizable festival dashboard that adapts to visitors, artists and staff, bringing schedules, saved work and practical information into one clearer system.
The choices that shaped the final direction.
Let the art lead
Navigation and utility stay restrained so installations, artist information and festival imagery remain the visual focus.
Design for a moving audience
Saved work, schedules and location-aware information were treated as practical tools for people experiencing the festival in real time.
Process / Evidence
01Constraint
A changed client direction compressed the schedule.
The core design work was completed in roughly two weeks within a month-long project, so the team prioritized the clearest shared structure first.
02Exploration
Two layouts tested the information hierarchy.
Class testing and a short questionnaire helped compare approaches before the final dashboard direction was consolidated.
03Delivery
The prototype carried the presentation.
The final package combined an interactive prototype, clickthrough and presentation so the client could understand both the interface and the reasoning behind it.
Exact contribution
We led the creative direction and planning, shaped the interface, made final design decisions and brought the prototype, clickthrough and presentation together for the client.
The final concept was presented to the Lumiere team, with positive feedback on the overall direction and artist experience. The work did not progress into a tracked launch, so no operational or attendance result is implied.
Lumiere shows how creative direction can create continuity under time pressure: align the team, reduce competing ideas and make the final experience feel authored rather than assembled.