BIOMETRIC SCAN INTERFACE DESIGN
Marvel Studios asked our team at Perception to design several interfaces seen throughout Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. One of these interfaces was the biometric scan interface seen on the center stack of the vehicle that Shang-Chi is driving. This scene is fast-paced and suspenseful. Therefore, our design needed to be easily legible and clear to the audience, so they could understand the task that needed to be performed in the midst of all of the action.
The car that Shang-Chi steals from this organization is a BMW, so we based our designs around what could inherently exist in a BMW. We received BMW design guidelines and screens that would typically be presented on the car’s center stack. Normally, navigation and car functions would be displayed on this screen. However, our brief was to create a hidden feature that has been hacked into this BMW in order to open and close the exit to this bunker.
Despite our feature being a unique piece of technology that does not exist within a BMW naturally, we still tried to remain true to BMW’s design sphere. Our goal was to make this software seem as if it could realistically be seen inside of a BMW. We stuck with traditional colors seen inside of a BMW, as well as kept details that are included in the center stack, such as the white divider bar and tabs seen at the top of the screen. With the design language in mind, we began crafting our concept interfaces.
The final design was based in touch screen technology and biometric scans mixed with traditional BMW screen typography and color patterns. The hand and its function indicators are the focal point of the interface in order for both the characters and the audience to understand what actions must be performed in the middle of intense action.
Learn more about our contributions to Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings in our Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings Technology Design case study and our Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings Title Design case study.
