OUTBREAK

Design thinking

Late-90s zombie movies were all hazard tape, nailed boards and a TV in the corner still running the emergency broadcast. OUTBREAK is a single rendered quarantine crate with the video on its CRT, and four rotting hands generated as separate pieces so they can move on their own. They live behind and around the case, twitch while you watch, and creep closer the louder the player gets, because noise draws them in. The round gauge on the left is the NOISE meter and doubles as the volume control, the green toxic buttons run playback, the warning light on top changes speed and pulses with the audio, and the timeline fills with dripping green ooze.

Every control sits on the rendered part it belongs to with extended hit areas for thumbs, the hands never cover a control, and the siren pulse stays slow, well under any flashing threshold. With reduced motion the hands hold still at the edges and the drips and siren stop. On phones the crate stands upright with the gauge and five big buttons stacked below the screen, so nothing gets squeezed.

Controls

• Space Play or pause
• ← → Seek 10 seconds
• ↑ ↓ Volume
• 0–9 Jump to 0–90%
• M Mute
• F Fullscreen
• 2× tap Sides seek, center goes fullscreen