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Millipede

Millipede is an online shop where you can browse footwear by individuals who wish to reduce your carbon footprint. You can spend time in the millipede store, and Time is the only currency. But, you can't buy anything!
Millipede is project done in collaboration with Quicksand Design Studio, national theatre of Scotland, British council, and Think Arts. The Idea was to create a theatrical web presentation to showcase all the innovative footwear entries. This online presentation was supposed to be a play that was adapted into a web experience due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
^ Introductory video to the millipede website showing earth covered with waste.
Since this was an experimental project, we had brainstorm sessions with the team at Theatre of Scotland to come up with the ideas for this fictional mall. We translated these ideas into rough drawings that we used to discuss different features in the site.
^ Early Rough drawings to facilitate discussing the project with the team 1. Earth covered in trash attached to a shoelace , 2. Celestial Shoe mall opening up to reveal the insides, 3. Shoe mall that you can roam around in, 4. Questionnaire attached to the shoelace before you enter the mall
Post agreeing on a loose structure of the interactions and structure of the website, we decided to create early proof of concepts to gauge what the team likes and dislikes. Fleshing out relatively high fidelity artefacts allowed the team to make decisions on what directions we wanted to go with the website.
^ 1. Low fidelity drawing of earth covered in trash, 2. Early concept of an isometric gallery that you can scan through, 3. Alternative concept of the shoe gallery with vertical displays with the entries from the participants and different shoe sculptures on display.
Parallel to the effort to finalising the design elements of the website, we also rendered various styles and versions of the the illustration to arrive at the final look.
^ 1. Hand drawn drawing concept art of the shoe mall , 2. Sci-Fi looking shy clown boo covered in insects and a millipede, 3. A shoe made out of grass and covered in insects, 4. Weathered Leather boot covered in insects
v We decided on the weathered old boot, covered in just a few insects as the Shoe mall
The website goes from a theatrical storytelling vignettes that you are scrolling through at your own pace, to an E-commerce website where you can browse shoes on. The e-commerce section of the website goes from skew- morphic to modern day interaction conventions.The idea was to combine familiar interactions with a component of whimsey in the design.
^ 1. A selection of 5 shoes presented to you to choose from, 2. 'In-Sole' magazine for you to read while we fetch some shoes for you to try, 3. Spam messages when you try to buy a shoe at Millipede, 4. Instead of you buying a shoe, you can get yourself a cool sticker with your face on it- because at millipede, you can spend time, but not money.
^ Shoe Submissions from the participants. The participants ranged from Rural Indian schools to designers in UK and India. The website was designed in a fashion that was comprehensible for a wide age-range and socio-economic backgrounds.
After you are done with the entire journey, you go back to the earth that's covered in trash. This project is call to action for everyone to consider their carbon footprint on the planet and make better choices
Wanna see the entire walkthrough? Find the full website walkthrough video here
Fin.