Touchscreens for Lincoln Center

Designing interactive touchscreens telling the story of David Geffen Hall and the NY Philharmonic (2022).

Problem

As part of its ten year renovation of David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center approached us to create new wayfinding infrastructure, interactive experiences, and activations throughout the campus. To this end, we hoped to create interactive experiences that highlighted the stories and history of Lincoln.

Solution

We designed interactive touchscreens that provided information and stories about current and past performers and performances by the NY Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall. The interface was simple, accessible, and elegant.

My Role

I worked end-to-end on this project from researching visitors and David Geffen Hall to digital design and prototyping.

Details

  • Year: 2022

  • Duration: 4 months

  • Project Team: 2x4, AV&C, Lincoln Center

Persona Research

Researching Lincoln Center’s visitors proved essential to defining the project’s outcome as well as understanding where in the visitors’ journey to place an interactive experience. We classified user personas based on their familiarity with David Geffen Hall into visitors who had been to David Geffen Hall before and those who had not.

User Flow

The history of David Geffen Hall and the NY Philharmonic would be told through the stories of performances in the world-famous orchestra. Hence, the content within this experience revolved around musicians, composers, directors, and other orchestra members. Hence, I crafted the user flow around the structure of an orchestra.

Prototyping & Front-End

Below are fundamental interactions for the touchscreens I helped design and prototype, including parallax scrolling, sticky headers, page transitions, and attract modes.

Interactive Touscreens for David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

The interactive touchscreen experience was ultimately installed at David Geffen Hall and unveiled to visitors in 2022 and has been used by thousands of visitors to immerse themselves further in the historic space. The experience includes parallax animations featuring hundreds of performers, elegant transitions between pages, and even a background mosaic that enhances the experience of learning more about performers.