NBA in AR

NBA in AR

NBA in AR

This project aims exploring the particular opportunity of sport viewing way. And also got the idea of the Lego and NBA commercial cooperation.

This project aims exploring the particular opportunity of sport viewing way. And also got the idea of the Lego and NBA commercial cooperation.

What we worked on

What we worked on

What we worked on

User flows
Product design and development
User experience
AR space identify process

User flows
Product design and development
User experience
AR space identify process

User flows
Product design and development
User experience
AR space identify process

Year completed

Year completed

Year completed

2022

2022

2022

Background

Background

Background

I was invited to watch NBA with my firends. It is pretty interting, however, I find I can’t watch it alone. Because there are too many in court and out court information that I can’t catch and don’t even know.

I was invited to watch NBA with my firends. It is pretty interting, however, I find I can’t watch it alone. Because there are too many in court and out court information that I can’t catch and don’t even know.

I was invited to watch NBA with my firends. It is pretty interting, however, I find I can’t watch it alone. Because there are too many in court and out court information that I can’t catch and don’t even know.

Project Description

Project Description

Project Description

Problem Statement

Problem Statement

For users:
There are there kinds of users. And they have totally different behaviors and goals.

For users:
There are there kinds of users. And they have totally different behaviors and goals.

For users:
There are there kinds of users. And they have totally different behaviors and goals.

Behavior:

  • Watches games socially with friends

  • Asks others or Googles for clarity

  • Often misses key game info

Frustrations:

  • High entry barrier (jargon, tactics)

  • Hard to find clear, real-time info

  • Hesitant to ask questions in group settings

Goals:

  • Make commentary more beginner-friendly

  • Help newbies learn without disrupting others

  • Enable easier access to game basics

Behavior:

  • Watches games socially with friends

  • Asks others or Googles for clarity

  • Often misses key game info

Frustrations:

  • High entry barrier (jargon, tactics)

  • Hard to find clear, real-time info

  • Hesitant to ask questions in group settings

Goals:

  • Make commentary more beginner-friendly

  • Help newbies learn without disrupting others

  • Enable easier access to game basics

Behavior:

  • Watches games socially with friends

  • Asks others or Googles for clarity

  • Often misses key game info

Frustrations:

  • High entry barrier (jargon, tactics)

  • Hard to find clear, real-time info

  • Hesitant to ask questions in group settings

Goals:

  • Make commentary more beginner-friendly

  • Help newbies learn without disrupting others

  • Enable easier access to game basics

Behavior:

  • Watches with groups

  • Engages in online chats

  • Follows teams & players on social media

Frustrations:

  • Commentary lacks clarity

  • Delays in online discussions

  • Weak second-screen experiences

Goal:

  • Improve real-time commentary and fan interaction

  • Add layered info systems (bullet screens, voting, etc.)

Behavior:

  • Watches with groups

  • Engages in online chats

  • Follows teams & players on social media

Frustrations:

  • Commentary lacks clarity

  • Delays in online discussions

  • Weak second-screen experiences

Goal:

  • Improve real-time commentary and fan interaction

  • Add layered info systems (bullet screens, voting, etc.)

Behavior:

  • Watches with groups

  • Engages in online chats

  • Follows teams & players on social media

Frustrations:

  • Commentary lacks clarity

  • Delays in online discussions

  • Weak second-screen experiences

Goal:

  • Improve real-time commentary and fan interaction

  • Add layered info systems (bullet screens, voting, etc.)

Behavior:

  • Analyzes tactics during games

  • Rewatches key plays

  • Uses data to form insights

Frustrations:

  • Not enough in-game data or analysis

  • No replay access during live broadcast

Goal:

  • Add real-time stats, pro insights, and tactical breakdowns

  • Enable replay and data-driven second-screen features

Behavior:

  • Analyzes tactics during games

  • Rewatches key plays

  • Uses data to form insights

Frustrations:

  • Not enough in-game data or analysis

  • No replay access during live broadcast

Goal:

  • Add real-time stats, pro insights, and tactical breakdowns

  • Enable replay and data-driven second-screen features

Behavior:

  • Analyzes tactics during games

  • Rewatches key plays

  • Uses data to form insights

Frustrations:

  • Not enough in-game data or analysis

  • No replay access during live broadcast

Goal:

  • Add real-time stats, pro insights, and tactical breakdowns

  • Enable replay and data-driven second-screen features

For NBA:

The occurrence of new technologies is also challenging traditional ways of content transmission.
Thus, continuously adapting live sports and content to newcomers and “aged” fans is essential for traditional sports. Sports media should have to completely adapt their services to satisfy and engage with an increasingly activist generation of fans to optimize and enhance the fans’ viewing experiences. To that end, there is a need to renew sports media content through innovation, personalization, and immersion. Traditional ways of content transmission will have to reinvent and rely on innovation to create new ways to watch NBA.

For NBA:

The occurrence of new technologies is also challenging traditional ways of content transmission.
Thus, continuously adapting live sports and content to newcomers and “aged” fans is essential for traditional sports. Sports media should have to completely adapt their services to satisfy and engage with an increasingly activist generation of fans to optimize and enhance the fans’ viewing experiences. To that end, there is a need to renew sports media content through innovation, personalization, and immersion. Traditional ways of content transmission will have to reinvent and rely on innovation to create new ways to watch NBA.

For NBA:

The occurrence of new technologies is also challenging traditional ways of content transmission.
Thus, continuously adapting live sports and content to newcomers and “aged” fans is essential for traditional sports. Sports media should have to completely adapt their services to satisfy and engage with an increasingly activist generation of fans to optimize and enhance the fans’ viewing experiences. To that end, there is a need to renew sports media content through innovation, personalization, and immersion. Traditional ways of content transmission will have to reinvent and rely on innovation to create new ways to watch NBA.

How Might We

How Might We

How might we design a product and service that allows both users and the league to integrate data efficiently and diverse perspectives to guide fans to embrace and understand the games’ contents, participate in the game, and ride out the confusion with the help of emerging interactive technologies.

How might we design a product and service that allows both users and the league to integrate data efficiently and diverse perspectives to guide fans to embrace and understand the games’ contents, participate in the game, and ride out the confusion with the help of emerging interactive technologies.

How might we design a product and service that allows both users and the league to integrate data efficiently and diverse perspectives to guide fans to embrace and understand the games’ contents, participate in the game, and ride out the confusion with the help of emerging interactive technologies.

Design Metrics

Design Metrics

Professional

Professional

Professional

Visualization of wide range of data and info.

Provide professional knowledge and context.

Visualization of wide range of data and info.

Provide professional knowledge and context.

Visualization of wide range of data and info.

Provide professional knowledge and context.

Diversification

Diversification

Diversification

Diversified presentation of game contents and viewing experiences.

Diversified presentation of game contents and viewing experiences.

Diversified presentation of game contents and viewing experiences.

Engagement

Engagement

Engagement

Multi-interactions provided during and after the game.

Multi-interactions provided during and after the game.

Multi-interactions provided during and after the game.

Personalization

Personalization

Personalization

Personalize and classify information for various groups of audiences.

Personalize and classify information for various groups of audiences.

Personalize and classify information for various groups of audiences.

Entertainment

Entertainment

Entertainment

Provide voting system and interactive functions to enhance watching experiences.

Provide voting system and interactive functions to enhance watching experiences.

Provide voting system and interactive functions to enhance watching experiences.

Partnership with Lego

Partnership with Lego

Our new product idea is super fit the Lego commercial: Aimed to deliver systems by embracing multiple mediums to promote the brand for creative play and to design versatile solutions that could be combined to generate an infinite set of items.

Our new product idea is super fit the Lego commercial: Aimed to deliver systems by embracing multiple mediums to promote the brand for creative play and to design versatile solutions that could be combined to generate an infinite set of items.

Our new product idea is super fit the Lego commercial: Aimed to deliver systems by embracing multiple mediums to promote the brand for creative play and to design versatile solutions that could be combined to generate an infinite set of items.

Technology adoption

Technology adoption

Technology adoption

Lego is exploring the injection of technology into traditional toys.
Embracing new technologies to extend the primary physical experiences through the capabilities that digital could provide. There is an interesting relationship brought by technology, the play loop, where consumers are more willing to get back to the products physically and play more through the digital space.

Lego is exploring the injection of technology into traditional toys.
Embracing new technologies to extend the primary physical experiences through the capabilities that digital could provide. There is an interesting relationship brought by technology, the play loop, where consumers are more willing to get back to the products physically and play more through the digital space.

Lego is exploring the injection of technology into traditional toys.
Embracing new technologies to extend the primary physical experiences through the capabilities that digital could provide. There is an interesting relationship brought by technology, the play loop, where consumers are more willing to get back to the products physically and play more through the digital space.

LEGO BOOST - Coding and robotics

LEGO BOOST - Coding and robotics

LEGO BOOST - Coding and robotics

Interactive Minifigures - Scanning to interacte

Interactive Minifigures - Scanning to interacte

Interactive Minifigures - Scanning to interacte

Lego Hidden Side - AR building toy

Lego Hidden Side - AR building toy

Lego Hidden Side - AR building toy

Lego Fusion - AR game

Lego Fusion - AR game

Lego Fusion - AR game

Product Line

Product Line

Product Line

Produce toys in partnership with major brands such as popular characters, movies, shows, books, and even games. The product line also reflects their social stance and react on it.

Produce toys in partnership with major brands such as popular characters, movies, shows, books, and even games. The product line also reflects their social stance and react on it.

Produce toys in partnership with major brands such as popular characters, movies, shows, books, and even games. The product line also reflects their social stance and react on it.

Old Trafford - Manchester United

Old Trafford - Manchester United

Old Trafford - Manchester United

Real Madrid - Santiago Bernabéu Stadium

Real Madrid - Santiago Bernabéu Stadium

Real Madrid - Santiago Bernabéu Stadium

Camp Nou - FC Barcelona

Camp Nou - FC Barcelona

Camp Nou - FC Barcelona

Table Football

Table Football

Table Football

What is it can influence?

What is it can influence?

For Users

For Users

For Users

Open a new way to watch NBA. A way not only fun but also fit anyone.

Open a new way to watch NBA. A way not only fun but also fit anyone.

Open a new way to watch NBA. A way not only fun but also fit anyone.

For NBA

For NBA

For NBA

Develop a new platform that can union different contents. Help develop of the league culture.

Develop a new platform that can union different contents. Help develop of the league culture.

Develop a new platform that can union different contents. Help develop of the league culture.

For LEGO

For LEGO

For LEGO

Expanding brand awareness through various distribution channels, especially digital platforms.

Expanding brand awareness through various distribution channels, especially digital platforms.

Expanding brand awareness through various distribution channels, especially digital platforms.

Product Details

Product Details

Product Details

Lego QR Present relative content

Lego QR Present relative content

Lego QR Present relative content

When users subscribe the NBA + Lego in the ar glasses. They will got the arena. And if they buy any minifigures, they can got personal content.

When users subscribe the NBA + Lego in the ar glasses. They will got the arena. And if they buy any minifigures, they can got personal content.

When users subscribe the NBA + Lego in the ar glasses. They will got the arena. And if they buy any minifigures, they can got personal content.

Use Minifigures to get personal content

Use Minifigures to get personal content

Use Minifigures to get personal content

We match different upgraded features to different man-boys for different stages of need. Users can match the combination according to their needs and personalize their subscription purchase.

We match different upgraded features to different man-boys for different stages of need. Users can match the combination according to their needs and personalize their subscription purchase.

We match different upgraded features to different man-boys for different stages of need. Users can match the combination according to their needs and personalize their subscription purchase.

Watching with the projected live audience

Watching with the projected live audience

Watching with the projected live audience

As a remote viewing platform, in order to provide a stronger sense of atmosphere, we have set up an auditorium to connect the live and remote viewing fans. Through the personalized lego figures participating in the live activities, the remote viewing fans can also feel the atmosphere of the live fans.

As a remote viewing platform, in order to provide a stronger sense of atmosphere, we have set up an auditorium to connect the live and remote viewing fans. Through the personalized lego figures participating in the live activities, the remote viewing fans can also feel the atmosphere of the live fans.

As a remote viewing platform, in order to provide a stronger sense of atmosphere, we have set up an auditorium to connect the live and remote viewing fans. Through the personalized lego figures participating in the live activities, the remote viewing fans can also feel the atmosphere of the live fans.

AR prototype

AR prototype

AR prototype

As a remote viewing platform, in order to provide a stronger sense of atmosphere, we have set up an auditorium to connect the live and remote viewing fans. Through the personalized lego figures participating in the live activities, the remote viewing fans can also feel the atmosphere of the live fans.

As a remote viewing platform, in order to provide a stronger sense of atmosphere, we have set up an auditorium to connect the live and remote viewing fans. Through the personalized lego figures participating in the live activities, the remote viewing fans can also feel the atmosphere of the live fans.

As a remote viewing platform, in order to provide a stronger sense of atmosphere, we have set up an auditorium to connect the live and remote viewing fans. Through the personalized lego figures participating in the live activities, the remote viewing fans can also feel the atmosphere of the live fans.

Full Deck

Full Deck

Full Deck

I led UI/UX design for AI Suggestion, a blockchain event prediction platform where users make predictions with virtual currencies and earn rewards. I was responsible for user flows and product design.

I led UI/UX design for AI Suggestion, a blockchain event prediction platform where users make predictions with virtual currencies and earn rewards. I was responsible for user flows and product design.

I led UI/UX design for AI Suggestion, a blockchain event prediction platform where users make predictions with virtual currencies and earn rewards. I was responsible for user flows and product design.

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Let’s connect to explore how research-driven, user-centered design can power digital products that engage audiences and elevate business impact.

Design by Jiawen Zhang

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Let’s connect to explore how research-driven, user-centered design can power digital products that engage audiences and elevate business impact.

Design by Jiawen Zhang

© 2025 Process

All rights reserved