REDLINE

Design thinking

Sonique and K-Jofol skins threw away the rectangle. Players were sculpted 3D-rendered objects floating on the desktop, all chrome, glass and glowing trim. REDLINE is built that way: one rendered carbon-fiber and chrome body shaped like a JDM gauge cluster, with no window around it. The video plays in the windshield screen, the progress bar lives in the chrome groove, and the five chrome caps are the transport. The big gauge is a real instrument: its needle is the volume (drag across it or use the arrow keys), shift lights climb with the actual audio, and the whole body’s amber trim glows harder on the bass. Like a real dash, the needle sweeps to redline and back when it powers on.

The center readout shows elapsed time to the hundredth and the speed setting, and tapping it changes speed. Every control has a visible amber focus ring, and the startup sweep, glow and shift lights stay calm with reduced motion.

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