How might we turn regular and predictable calculator experience into something unexpectedly enjoyable? Reimagined standard calculator to be animated, irritable, humorous, transforming calculating into a fun and unexpected experience.
Design Language
Uses pastel colors, 8-bit graphics, and girly, middle-school visuals to contradict the cold precision of typical calculators. Random, Pinterest images replace numbers, adding to its glitchy, delusional personality.
Explorations
Layout
Uses pastel colors, 8-bit graphics, and girly, middle-school visuals to contradict the cold precision of typical calculators. Random, Pinterest images replace numbers, adding to its glitchy, delusional personality.
Features Overview
Design Language
Personified
The calculator is personified; it has a mind of its own. It reacts emotionally: refusing easy calculations, displaying messages like “do not press me” or “oops!”, and renaming functions (“dumb” and “smart”) to reflect its attitude.
Frustrating
Designed to frustrate by replacing number pads with images, revealing the number only after pressing, and spelling out every function instead of using symbols.
Super Slow...
The calculator takes quite sometime to finish thinking as it operates on its own will.
Explorations
Easily Irritated
It often refuses to give the right answer due to its “superb intellect” finding some calculations too easy.
Unnecessary Feature
When users press “=” the calculator randomly generates an image—an irrelevant, humorous reward that no one ask for.
The Process
Behind the scene of me having fun in Figma.
Image Asset / Inspiration
Learnings
Keep making passion project and unconventional experiment ~
Add humor and imperfection to make interface feels human
