Cyber Element 智能手錶錶面 by Alex Pan Yong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 介面、互動及用戶體驗設計 Competition Category.

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Cyber Element 智能手錶錶面

by Alex Pan Yong

Client: Artalex

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 介面 Category

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The Design

About Cyber Element 智能手錶錶面

Cyber Element 智能手錶錶面透過極簡設計展現時尚嘅賽博龐克美學。未來主義與簡約風格嘅融合，配合色彩主題嘅運用，有效傳達信息嘅簡潔性與複雜性。透過巧妙配置信息指示器，令錶盤保持簡潔清爽，既節省空間，亦確保最佳可讀性。此設計令智能手錶成為休閒與娛樂場合嘅理想選擇。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Cyber Element 智能手錶錶面是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Cyber Element 智能手錶錶面將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Cyber Element 智能手錶錶面因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This cyberpunk-inspired watch face boasts a sleek and readable design. Large, easy-to-read numbers make telling time a breeze, while the unique dial layout ensures that information on battery life, date, and daily steps is readily available. Despite its minimalistic appearance, this watch face still manages to provide all the necessary information in a quick and efficient manner, making it an ideal choice for those who value both style and functionality.
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: futuristic, business, casual, informative, glow, cyberpunk
Production Technology: The actual product is currently in the WatchMaker version. It can be downloaded from the WatchMaker app and synced into your smartwatch (the WatchMaker app is needed on your watch).
Design Challenge: One must devise a strategy to arrange the information indicators in a manner that eliminates superfluous elements and ensures the dial is neat and accurate. In doing so, it is important to utilize the dots as a primary element to evoke a sense of cyberpunk.
Research: I want it to be in a cyberpunk style, a sense of future, while it still has a very high readability. So I decided to make the time much more dominant, and added visual variation on the font. The upper half of the font is in solid stroke while the lower half fades into the pattern of dots. It gives a kind of digital yet also cyberpunk feeling. Below the time text, it’s the day-in-week indicator which uses only the first letter of the day, e.g, “M” for Monday. Besides, this indicator itself plays the role of divider. Its layout forms the feeling of a line, helping to cut the whole watch face into two areas, the time & date area and the information area. When the day-in-week indicator plays the role of both info provider and space divider, there is no need for any more extra elements to be there to occupy extra space. In such layout, the preciseness of the dial is guaranteed, and the user can easily be focused on what really need.
Inspiration: I aim to create a cyberpunk-style watch design that breaks away from the conventional approach of cramming all sorts of information onto the watch face. Unlike most cyberpunk designs, which tend to feature tiny, unreadable text and numbers, I want to create a design that prioritizes readability and clarity. Instead of packing the design with an excessive amount of information, I intend to create a clean and easy-to-read layout that incorporates elements of the cyberpunk style.
Project Duration: The project started and finished in September 2022 in Singapore.
Operation Flow: This watch face is currently in the WatchMaker version, tap the small dot at the left lower corner (below hour) to change the 12/24 mode. Tap and hold to choose the colour theme (native WatchMaker colour palette)
Patents: Copyrights belong to Alex Pan Yong, 2023.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Pan Yong, Main image, 2023.
Image #2: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2023.
Image #3: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2023.
Image #4: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2023.
Image #5: Photographer Pan Yong, Single shot, 2023.