HEXABOT
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On the Moon, you can’t afford to make mistakes.
Every operational decision, every intervention, every delay has a direct impact on the survival of the colony.
In this scenario, daily life depends on the Hexabots: personal robots responsible for carrying out essential tasks, from base maintenance to transportation and emergency management.
This is where the project developed for Designflows 2025 begins an event organized by Bending Spoons: designing, in just three days, an app set in a lunar colonization scenario, with one real constraint putting human needs at the center in extreme conditions.
I started with the data, not the interface.
The user analyses provided in the brief guided the design direction, revealing two key behaviors: constant monitoring of the Hexabots’ status and task assignment primarily in response to emergency situations. In 65% of cases, operations were initiated under pressure, in complex and high-risk contexts. Planning exists, but it is constantly challenged by unexpected events this changes everything.
In critical scenarios, the interface cannot afford ambiguity or unnecessary cognitive load: it must provide an immediate overview of the fleet and direct access to action. This led to the choice of a visualization capable of conveying the status of the Hexabots in just a few seconds, along with a fast and streamlined task creation and assignment flow, with priorities always visible.
The app does not simply coordinate a fleet of devices: it coordinates the very possibility of continuing to live on the Moon. Less time spent interpreting. Less friction between problem and action. More control when it truly matters.
The system had to support fast decision-making in complex environments.
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