Graphic user interface concept

"I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it.

- Dziga Vertov"

I like designing the interface between information and user. This is one of the mobile phones available in Japan; I like the mix of shapes linking the lens of the camera and the screen next to it. It was the start point to this design which incorporates a lens at the centre.

This is the centre lens detail. I wanted to have a kind of magnification device at the centre of the larger lens in the middle of the navigation control. Information would appear on the lens and specific points would be magnified.

The mechanical slide. I felt that the device needed a precise viewfinder that would give the user a feel of control. Movement of the slide in the centre of the toothed wheel would allow text to move under the main lens and be magnified by the smaller lens in the middle.

Up and Down buttons would allow the user to move between pages at will. Also would control the information that would appear on the main section areas to the far right.

I have imagined that this image would be very industrial in look. All iron and steam with oily surfaces. How ever this is a very difficult design to use as a GUI and will take some heavy modification. It will first end up as a finished graphical piece.