Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face by Alex Pan Yong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Competition Category.
IronInterface· 2025
Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face
Client: Artalex
A' Design Award Winner in Interface Category
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About Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face
The Artalex Et 101 redefines smartwatch aesthetics with a design inspired by the Bauhaus movement, blending geometric precision with functional elegance. Its lowercase typography enhances readability while adding a modern, approachable charm. A standout feature is the subtle progress ring above the step count, providing an elegant visual cue for tracking daily fitness goals. Reflecting Bauhaus principles of structure and simplicity, the design features a meticulously crafted grid based layout, ensuring essential data is presented in a clean, harmonious, and user friendly manner.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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Award-Winning Smartwatch Face Designs
We create distinctive smartwatch faces inspired by Bauhaus principles and minimalist aesthetics. Our designs blend geometric precision with functional elegance, featuring clean layouts, readable typography, and integrated fitness tracking. Winner of multiple international A' Design Awards.
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Your innovative integration of Bauhaus principles in the Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face has earned recognition with an A' Design Award - could you elaborate on how you balanced geometric precision with functional elegance in the interface design?
I treated Bauhaus geometry as both an artistic anchor and a functional grid. The watch face relies on strict proportional divisions to create calm visual rhythm. This geometric discipline then guided where the time, date and activity details should live so the interface stays elegant and immediately readable.
The subtle progress ring above the step count in the Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face creates an elegant visual narrative - what inspired this unique approach to representing fitness data while maintaining the clean aesthetic?
The ring is deliberately quiet because I wanted fitness data to feel integrated, not intrusive. It tells a story without breaking the minimal mood of the design.
How did your background in interactive art influence the grid-based layout and typography choices in the Artalex Et 101 Smartwatch Face, particularly in achieving harmony between form and functionality?
My background in interactive art taught me to design with rhythm, spacing and user flow in mind. This mindset directly shaped how the grid and typography work together.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This smartwatch face sets itself apart with a combination of thoughtful design elements and user-centric features. The lowercase font enhances readability and adds a contemporary, approachable feel. A small progress ring above the step count visually represents the user’s progress toward their daily step goal, promoting fitness in a subtle, elegant manner. A clean grid-based structure organizes key data (time, date, weather, step count) into easily digestible sections.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The dimension of this design is 512 x 512px on Android watch, 400 x 400px on Samsung watch. It supports both round and square smartwatches.
- Tags
- dark, mint, elegant, casual, business, minimal, chill
- Production Technology
- The design is produced on Facer.io. It has a design tool to let designers fulfill their ideas. Once the design is finished, just publish it directly from there, and the user can sync the design from Facer.io.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge was integrating the font seamlessly with the grid-based layout while maintaining visual harmony and functionality. Fortunately, the result achieved a satisfying balance between form and structure.
- Research
- The design research for the Artalex ET 101 smartwatch face was grounded in a combination of qualitative and observational studies. The objective was to integrate Bauhaus principles into a functional, visually appealing smartwatch interface that balances art and practicality.
Methodology: Researchers studied historical Bauhaus works and modern smartwatch designs, analyzing how geometric forms, clean lines, and minimalism could meet contemporary user needs.
Data Collection and Tools: Data was collected through user surveys, focus groups, and usability testing, using prototyping tools like Facer to visualize and refine ideas.
Participants: The study involved a diverse group of smartwatch users, including professionals, fitness enthusiasts, and casual users, to gather broad perspectives.
Results: Insights revealed that users value clear layouts, readable fonts, and engaging visual cues for fitness tracking. The lowercase font and the progress ring for step goals emerged as user-preferred features.
Impact: The research bridged Bauhaus ideals with modern functionality, resulting in a smartwatch face that enhances user interaction and daily productivity. Its design impacts business by aligning with minimalism trends, society by promoting health awareness, and design by merging timeless principles with contemporary needs. - Inspiration
- The design is inspired by the Bauhaus movement, celebrated for its fusion of functionality and artistic expression through geometric shapes and clean lines. This influence is evident in the intersecting lines and segmented layout, which create a balanced, structured, and modern aesthetic. Minimalism further shapes the design, ensuring clarity and elegance. The use of all-lowercase typography enhances readability while adding a contemporary, approachable touch. Additionally, the step goal indicator subtly integrates health tracking into the Bauhaus-inspired framework, combining practicality with timeless design principles.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2024 and finished in April 2024 in Singapore.
- Operation Flow
- The design is released on Facer.io. To download it, go to www.facer.io/u/artalex. Look for the name starting with “Artalex ET“, and click the big blue button to sync into your smartwatch (You need to have Facer app installed on your smartwatch).
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Pan Yong, Main image, 2025.
Image #2: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2025.
Image #3: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2025.
Image #4: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2025.
Image #5: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2025.
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