USC Iovine & Young Academy
Professional Practice Residential

Expanding Economies Through Space Travel

Timeline
2 days

Team
Solo project

Role
Product Design

Tools
Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Firefly

Challenge
Create an interface for an app for some kind of business that provides overnight accommodations and services.

Project Background

An in class speculative design project that explores the intersection of space travel and the space economy.

Project Goal:
Practice the design thinking process and develop a design system that can be utilized for future designs.

Challenge
Create an interface for an app for some kind of business that provides overnight accommodations and services.

Jump to Solution

Discern

So, what exactly is the problem?

Primary resaerch revealed a high level of enthusiasm in space travel investment amongst decentralized crypto currency holders.  

5 in depth interviews
1 survey

Secondary research revealed a limited pool of investment sources to develop real estate in space.

User Insights

De-risking Investment

Crypto currency holders feel a need to de-risk their investments but often lack options

Space is expensive

It's expensive to build for space travel and funding sources are often limited

Synthesis

There is an opportunity to use crypto currency as means to fund real estate development in space and de-risk their investment.

Prompt

How might we... develop an interface that provides overnight accommodations in space for crypto currency holders?

Ideation

Keeping in mind the goal of the project with findings through user research, my ideation started with developing a mood board that intersected the feeling of space travel and space experiences to inspire investment action amongst the users.

Mid-fidelity Mockups

Introducing

The first timeshare in space for bitcoin holders!