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RingCentral - Message, Video, Phone.

RingCentral is the #1 business communications platform, bringing everyone and everything together to get work done. NotReal developed an overview video to showcase everything this powerful app can do, so viewers can get a glimpse of how broad and complete this product really is. There's the coexistence of three worlds: Real, the user point showed through realistic work situations. Digital, conformed by deconstructed UIs that highlight specific features of the app. And Abstract, to describe general functionality. Throughout the video, there's a team creating a product through the app.

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Aloha

Users don't understand their online privacy risks and even if they are trying to, it is too complicated. The user needs to understand a lot of technical terms and know how to apply knowledge in digital life. And if they don't, it should not mean they will not be private. That's why designers have created Aloha, the browser that implements all the privacy techniques with a simple UI. It just works and keeps the user's privacy.

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Musiac

Musiac is a musical recommendation engine, utilize proactive participation to find precise options for its users. It aims to propose alternative interfaces to challenge the algorithm autocracy. Information filtering has become an inevitable searching approach. However, it creates echo chamber effects and constrains users in their comfort zone by strickly follow their preferences. Users become passive and stop questioning the options the machine provides. Spending time to review options may increase huge bio-cost, but it is the effort that creates a meaningful experience.

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Theunique

Agarwood is rare and expensive. Its aroma can only be obtained from burning or extraction, used indoor and afforded by few users. To break these limitations, a smart aroma diffusor and natural hand-made agarwood tablets are created after 3-year’s efforts with over 60 designs, 10 prototypes and 200 experiments. It demonstrates a new possible business model and using context for agarwood industry. Users can simply insert diffusor inside of a car, customise time, density and variety of aroma with ease and enjoy the immersive aromatherapy wherever they go and whenever they drive.

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Absinthe

With Absinthe, Vivian had a chance to explore potential visuals that merge physics and scenography. This play explores topics on physics, matter and psychology. The the main beauty of the design is the limitless interpretation of the set according to the audience's understanding of the play, the oval stage represents time, but can be seen as the milky way, Möbius band etc. To enhance the whole theatrical experience, she introduced technology of laser light sound visualizer as a method to allow sound to be seen, laser lights were distorted based on the frequency of spoken sound by the actors.

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The Armor

This armor was conceived for a modern version of a classic Shakespeare. Made it with fully recycled materials, mixes metallic corset nerves with leather leggings overlapping layers denoting the various faces assumed by Richard III during the theater play. From a modernist vision in terms of fabric and materials to traditional use of technique and structure, the piece remains the soul of an antique armor. It reflects the vulnerability of the King and the man who coexists inside the character, the world of specters, deaths, and feelings surrounding his life.

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