Hall of Fame of Rondesignlab - Huawei

• This journey represents a unique experience in our portfolio. We are entering the highly competitive landscape of flagship mobile operating systems. We had the opportunity to contribute to Huawei's strategic initiatives in this space.

Where the story took off

• We were invited by Huawei, who were seriously flexing their muscles as a mobile powerhouse back then, to join them on a project that sounded both insane and utterly brilliant. Their objective? To forge an all-powerful, truly revolutionary operational system. 

• We were handed a blank canvas, a complete 0-100 initiative. Honestly, we were a little confused. Jared, one of the designers, remembers it something like that:

• Designing an OS from scratch? That's not exactly typical Tuesday work. Huawei's team kept pointing out how much they were skyrocketing and how we were contributing to a product that was going to overthrow the competitors (okay, cocky).

Main Task

• Our core mission was pure creative freedom: deliver a highly usable and aesthetically stunning OS prototype. We were responsible for every single detail of the UI/UX, from individually sketching each icon to drawing up a massive collection of beautiful wallpapers.

Components

• To make sure this wasn't just a pretty novelty, we got serious. We started with a phase of market discovery. This was basically a highly detailed competitive analysis of all the big, established mobile OS platforms. We weren't just looking at them; we were dissecting them based on three traits:

• Visual Appeal (Does it look good?)

• Usability (Can a distracted person use it?)

• Novelty (Is it boring?)

Theme

• Most of all, we loved our golden-black theme. Let us tell you, the whole team kept their heads up high when it was brought up. Like, “yeah, we did that, mhm.” Yeah, we are just like that.

• Bringing luxury to your fingertips

  The golden-black theme was a take on luxury rethought. This concept was designed to reflect premium status and sophistication but made simple and usable. Remember, we didn’t want to distract anyone from their goals. We ended up with an expensive-looking theme that was also helpful and not distracting.

Wallpapers

• We had immense fun creating a unique set of six wallpapers that played masterfully with light, color, and depth. We called them things like Colorful Depth, Two Suns, and Black Light. They were designed to be perfectly unique and diverse, yet simple enough to avoid violently distracting the user from, you know, actually using their phone.

• Measurable results

  Our successful cooperation with Huawei didn't just give them a flagship-worthy OS prototype; the design itself was so competitive that Huawei’s sales expectations saw a spike of 13% based on the visuals alone.

• Personal outcome

  But more importantly for us? It was a massive expansion of our own universe. It opened a significant space for us to investigate the high-demand field of OS Design.

• We learned, we delivered, and now we know we can build the digital engine that runs the whole show. We stay on top of the news and keep imagining new trends, ensuring we never have to admit we're using last year's ideas.