Hewants Design
I’m pleased to share that my class project, “Learning Through Play: Designing Hypothetical Interactive Digital Experiences for Zoo Visitors,” has been accepted to the 2026 SEGD Academic Summit.
Developed within a studio course for the UXD minor, this project brought together 9 students across two teams—4 from Graphic Design and 5 from Industrial Design. Through this interdisciplinary collaboration, students explored how play-driven interaction design can enrich educational experiences in informal learning environments such as zoos.
Engaging with speculative design and digital storytelling, each team envisioned interactive systems that foster curiosity, engagement, and learning—particularly for younger audiences.
I’m especially proud of the students for their thoughtful, collaborative, and imaginative work throughout the studio. Congratulations to both teams on this wonderful achievement.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute to ongoing conversations around experiential design, design education, and public engagement.
I look forward to sharing this project at the SEGD Academic Summit this summer.
I’m happy to share that two of my recent research projects have been accepted to the poster session at HCII 2026.
“Enhancing Workplace Wellness Evaluation through UX: A Usability Test of a Web-Based Assessment Tool”
(Co-authored with Huiwon Lim, Yongyeon Cho, Hye Jeong Park)
“Design and Usability Evaluation of a Circular Keyboard Optimized for Gaze-Input Systems”
(Co-authored with JoongSup Lee, Jingyeong Hong, Huiwon Lim)
Grateful to collaborate with such thoughtful researchers, and looking forward to sharing this work at the conference. More updates to come.
Typographic Constellations is an interactive web piece that turns text into star constellations. Type your name or a short message in Korean, Arabic, or English, and the system translates each script's unique spatial properties—Hangul's 2D syllable blocks, Arabic's rasm groups and dots, the Latin alphabet's ascender-descender rhythm—into star coordinates on a shared digital night sky. Over the course of the exhibition, individual constellations build into a collective cosmos, and an algorithm finds "constellation neighbors": names from different scripts that produce surprisingly similar star patterns. Built through vibe coding with Claude Code and Antigravity, the work reveals the hidden geometries within the world's writing systems through the visual metaphor of constellations.
--
Typographic Constellations는 텍스트를 별자리로 바꾸는 인터랙티브 웹 작품입니다. 한글, 아랍어, 영어로 이름이나 짧은 메시지를 입력하면, 각 문자 체계의 고유한 공간적 특성—한글의 2차원 음절 블록, 아랍어의 라슴 그룹과 점, 라틴 알파벳의 어센더-디센더 리듬—이 밤하늘 위 별 좌표로 변환됩니다. 전시 기간 동안 별자리들이 하나씩 쌓이며 하나의 우주를 이루고, 알고리즘이 서로 다른 문자 체계에서 비슷한 별 패턴을 만들어낸 '별자리 이웃'을 찾아줍니다. Claude Code와 Antigravity를 활용한 바이브 코딩으로 만든 이 작품은 세계 문자 속에 숨겨진 기하학적 구조를 별자리라는 메타포로 보여줍니다.
http://hewantsdesign.com/pages/typographic-constellations.html
Alive: The Rhythm of Recovery
고요한 정적 속에서 흐르는 생명의 신호. 심전도(EKG)의 날카로운 펄스가 유기적인 라인으로 변하며 'Alive'라는 메시지를 남기고 다시 어둠 속으로 사라지는 효과를 표현하려 했습니다.
5초의 순환을 통해 멈추지 않는 생명의 리듬, 그리고 다시 일어서는 에너지를 표현해봤습니다.
A signal of life flowing through the silence of stillness. I sought to capture the moment where the sharp pulses of an EKG transform into organic lines, etching the word 'Alive' before fading back into the shadows.
Through this 5-second cycle, I wanted to express the unceasing rhythm of life and the resilient energy of rising once again.
#미디어아트 #모션타이포그래피 #네온아트 #심전도
[Day 2] 빛의 조각들과의 교감
화면을 가득 채운 작은 빛의 조각들에 ‘탄성’이라는 생명력을 불어넣었습니다.
마우스를 꾹 누르면 자석처럼 한곳으로 응축되고, 손을 떼는 순간 사방으로 튕겨 나가는 입자들의 역동적인 에너지를 표현하고 싶었습니다. 고정된 색이 아닌, 스페이스바를 누를 때의 마우스 좌표에 따라 입자들이 스스로 새로운 빛깔을 찾아가는 과정이 흥미롭네요.
연습 2일차, 아직 인터페이스가 낯설지만 내가 상상한 움직임을 하나하나 코드로 구현해가는 재미가 쏠쏠합니다.
Tools: Gemini x Antigravity
Concept: Elasticity & Light Interaction
_
[Day 2] Communion with Shards of Light
Added "elasticity" to tiny shards of light filling the screen.
I wanted to capture the dynamic energy of particles that cluster like magnets when the mouse is held, then explode in every direction the moment it's released. It's fascinating to see them find new colors based on the mouse's (X, Y) coordinates every time the spacebar is pressed—no fixed colors, just real-time interaction.
It's only Day 2 of my practice. The interface still feels a bit unfamiliar, but there's a unique joy in bringing my imagination to life, step by step.
Tools: Gemini x Antigravity
Concept: Elasticity & Light Interaction
#디자이너 #미디어아트 #연습기록
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.
Category
Website
Address
715 Bissell Road
Ames, IA
50011