VR · User-centred design2025 · User-Centred Design module, Royal Holloway · Group project

Sustainable RHUL

A campus you can walk around, coloured by carbon intensity.

A group VR prototype showing campus sustainability at more than one scale. I designed the main 3D model, the information pages and the storyboard, applying user-centred design principles.

Skills it shows

My storyboard: eight screens, each with its action and the principle behind it.

RoleMain 3D model, information pages, storyboard

TeamGroup project

When2025, User-Centred Design module

Built withVR prototype, 3D model

Skills it shows

3D modelling

Designed the main 3D model of the campus, with buildings coloured by carbon intensity in three bands.

Storyboarding

An eight-screen storyboard of the user flow, each panel naming the user’s action and the design principle behind it.

Information design

Building pages with floors, floor area, carbon output and eco features, at the scale of one building or the whole campus.

User-centred design

Gestalt continuity, visible feedback and lower cognitive load, applied screen by screen.

Problem, build, result

1Problem

Campus carbon arrives as one total in a report. It does not say which building is the problem or what a change would do.

2What I built

A walkable model: pick a building, read its footprint, add solar panels or remove a car park, then see the dashboard total change.

3Result

A prototype and storyboard that show sustainability at building and campus scale, in one session.

8storyboard screens

2scales: one building, whole campus

3carbon bands, one colour each

10design principles, named panel by panel

In pictures

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Storyboard panel: the Bedford Building information page with floors, area, height, carbon output and eco features. — A building’s own page.

Storyboard panel: the campus model with buildings coloured red, amber and green by carbon intensity. — Coloured by carbon intensity.

Storyboard panel: the Add menu open, placing solar panels on the Founder’s Building. — Add solar panels.

Storyboard panel: the sustainability dashboard with a donut chart and bar chart of emissions. — See the total move.

Tech stack

Tools and data

VR prototype3D campus modelStoryboardingWireframing

Methods

User-centred designGestalt continuityFeedback visibilityCognitive loadError prevention

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