Navigating your digital life.

Every single person in the future will have an account, map, program, app, or service that helps them navigate their digital life. Way beyond a simple Dropbox or icloud account, pickle.os tries to go where no service has gone before by bringing all your info together in a searchable index of all experiences and pieces of data that make you, you.

The Good

• Lots of great integrations
• Extremely good at addressing security concerns (authentications, end to end encryption, etc)
• Interface is fast af

The Bad

• Why is it branded like the train station in harry potter where he comes back to life
• Where is the “pickle” lean in on branding and UI, give me some color
• The example use cases are… lame for lack of better term

The Ugly

• The circle UI is self defeating, busy, and doesn’t have directionality

Nothing is popping out, there is overlap, the edges are naturally more “dense” than the center, and like… why pick the number of points? Was it random, was there scientific reasoning? Needless to say I’m being a bit harsh, but that’s because I see the potential and know that there is gold here. And the name is too good to pass up on something really exciting.

Step 1: Add a past, present and future.

What does my data tell me about where I’m going? To use navigation terms, what’s my heading? What is my north star now that you’ve gone through all of my data?

Step 2: Ditch the circle.

I know the nice folks at pickle can pick a better 3d visualization, something that is unique, that AI couldn’t copy in 5 seconds flat to build a duplicate, that’s proprietary etc.

Step 3: Color system

It doesn’t HAVE to be green, in fact that might be too on the nose, but I need something filled with vibrance and optimism when I’m looking at the story of my life. You could do some amazing blur effects with images (think social media backgrounds for portrait videos expanded to landscape screens) that could also add a personal splash of color using existing assets.

My 20min take on a new direction.

Heavily influenced by games such as besiege and maps you find at the start of a fantasy novel: