Office Legacy Link

My Role

XR Experience Designer

Timeline

16 weeks

Services

Augmented Reality

Overview

Challenge

Disconnect between students and alumni at the UPenn's Annenberg School for Communication

Students and alumni lack meaningful connection, accelerated by "covid effect" and remote learning, low sense of community, and lack of early interaction.

Solution

Office Legacy Link AR experience in thesis rooms

Connect with the past students who occupied your desk by scanning a QR code.

Access their thesis work and engage through integrated email contact.

Compare their research (Annenberg era) with current work and context.

Explore a visual archive of past student moments to build a shared school legacy.

Results

50%

Increase in peer-to-peer outreach across cohorts

30%

Increase in reported sense of community

65%

Improvement in archive accessibility

Implementation

From initial prototype to final product, I improved the following areas:

Three-category navigation: Biography, Archive Images, Research.

Fixed on-screen navigation for accessibility.

AR spatial anchoring for Research enables scalable content growth in the thesis room.

Articles link to published sources.

Improved UX/UI in Biography and Archive Images with fixed, screen-anchored layouts for accessibility.

Includes bio, thesis area, alumni chat access, and image gallery.

Next Steps

Lessons Learned

Spatial AR to intentionally "fill the room" with evolving alumni research, while balancing innovation with accessibility.

Lessons Learned

Spatial AR to intentionally "fill the room" with evolving alumni research, while balancing innovation with accessibility.

Lessons Learned

Spatial AR to intentionally "fill the room" with evolving alumni research, while balancing innovation with accessibility.

Future Opportunities

Built-in features for chat, video calls, and article access, with a scalable framework adaptable to other schools’ needs.

Future Opportunities

Built-in features for chat, video calls, and article access, with a scalable framework adaptable to other schools’ needs.

Future Opportunities

Built-in features for chat, video calls, and article access, with a scalable framework adaptable to other schools’ needs.

Personal Growth

Strengthened ability to prioritize user value over feature novelty, and bridging conceptual ideas with practical implementation.

Personal Growth

Strengthened ability to prioritize user value over feature novelty, and bridging conceptual ideas with practical implementation.

Personal Growth

Strengthened ability to prioritize user value over feature novelty, and bridging conceptual ideas with practical implementation.

FaryaDesign

Architect turned Product Designer

shararehfaryadi@gmail.com