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2023–2026 · aryve Technologies, Berlin (remote) · sole designer

Guiding people through buildings, without a single beacon.

Camera-only indoor positioning, turned into turn-by-turn AR guidance. Sole designer across the whole ecosystem — web, mobile and wearables — held together by one design system.

Clientaryve Technologies
RoleSenior Product Designer (Spatial UX/UI)
SurfacesWeb · mobile · wearables · design system
DomainAirports & large venues
ScopeDiscovery → IA → UI → handoff
aryve passenger app — dark indoor map with gate pins, category filters and a floor selector, shown in a terminal
The passenger app — a live indoor map with gates, filters and floor switching. Own design.
01 — The problem

GPS dies indoors — right where getting lost costs the most.

Airports, museums, hospitals: wayfinding matters most exactly where GPS fails, and beacons or Wi-Fi mean hardware to install and maintain. aryve's answer is a Visual Positioning System — the phone camera against a 3D scan, entirely in software, no beacons.

02 — What I owned

One designer, the whole ecosystem.

Sole designer at aryve, from discovery to engineer-ready specs — working directly with PM and computer-vision, platform and front-end engineering. Every surface was mine: the passenger experience on web and mobile, the wearables / AR-glasses view, and the Studio platform teams use to author it all — three connected products, one system.

03 — A decision worth showing

Direction in the world, not a screen over it.

How do you show a turn-by-turn instruction in AR without burying the real world behind UI?
TensionEnough guidance to be unambiguous, but the camera view — and the person's real surroundings — must stay readable.
ChoseA world-locked chevron and dotted path carry direction; a minimal 2D band carries only the next turn, distance and gate.
WhyUnder pressure, people read the world before the interface. Anchoring direction in space and holding the overlay to one line keeps the corridor readable.
aryve AR navigation — world-anchored chevron and dotted path with a minimal 2D band: gate, distance, time, mini-map
The decision, resolved: a world-locked chevron carries direction; a minimal 2D band carries gate, distance and time. Own design.
04 — The Studio platform

The platform behind every deployment.

Studio lets a venue's own team author the navigation — draw paths in the 3D model, place AR content, and manage locations, users and status, no code. Enterprise UX where a non-expert does a spatial job on a flat screen.

aryve Studio CMS — sign-in, the locations library, the 3D floor-plan editor, and the organizations, users and status-control views
Studio, end to end — sign-in, locations, the 3D floor-plan editor, organizations, users and status control. Own design.
05 — The design system

One system — the single source of truth.

The design system is the core of the work: one token set and component library across web, mobile and wearables — the single source of truth every engineer built from, so one designer could keep pace with parallel platform, CV and front-end teams and keep three surfaces feeling like one product. The next step turned it into a living document that delivers tokens and components to engineers straight as code.

The aryve design system board — typography, colour, spacing, icons and the full component library: buttons, cards, forms, navigation, tables, modals, sidebars and more
The system in full — type, colour, spacing, icons and a complete component library, held to one language across every surface.
The living document — the design system as a live site that hands engineers tokens and components as ready-to-use code. Own design.
06 — Accessibility & workflow

Accessible by design; AI-accelerated.

Accessibility was built in from the start — contrast, target sizes, screen-reader flows and low-vision guidance in dense spaces — designed toward BFSG/WCAG, though never formally certified as compliant. An AI-assisted workflow sped up research and exploration for a one-person function, always labelled, never shipped as real evidence.

07 — Outcome

What it added up to.

Live PoCs at Deutsches Museum (≈42,000 m²) and Playce Berlin; now live at PAD airport — scan to live in 48 h, zero hardware (source).

Results

42,000 m²
Live PoC — Deutsches Museum
48 h
Scan → live — PAD airport