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Learning as a new media, augmented by Astra.

AI and design working together to generate dynamic learning support. Made with GPT6 Astra, for the book format of a foldable iPhone.

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Project
Orrery · Learning app concept
Device
iPhone Duo, simulated
Made with
Blender · GPT6 Astra
Languages
English · French
Ask Orrery: your next discovery, four questions to start from and a field to ask your own

Beyond the chat

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I never found a chat UI alone particularly engaging to learn new things.

Some subjects require a certain amount of focus and immersive feeling, and deserve better than static plain text on flat boring design. That’s why we usually prefer the movie version of a story to the book one (mostly when you have no attention span).

Today’s curiosity on Earth: what if Earth weren’t tilted? The axis straightened, with a button to restore the 23.44° tilt

Curiosity, by design

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That’s where creative design comes in, to help create this engaging experience, that really sparks curiosity and the will to learn about a topic, to invest the user and make them really proactive.

  • Today’s curiosityA question a day, and a gesture to test it: straighten Earth’s axis, then restore its 23.44°.
  • Go a little deeperOne more layer of reading, only for those who ask for it.
  • Drag to exploreEvery world turns under the finger, with its moons around it.
  • The timelineAny date, in real time or sped up, with every planet where it really is.
Mars, one layer deeper: Olympus Mons and a thin CO₂ atmosphere
Saturn, its orbit: an ellipse, and a speed that changes along the way

AI and design

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AI empowers both here, and it’s best when meant for this.

Ask Orrery answers with a visual to play with rather than a paragraph: a pull you can weigh, a system of moons to open, a lap around the Sun. For now the demo runs on prepared answers, without a live AI.

Ask Orrery: the same mass, a different pull, Jupiter’s gravity against Earth’s, 2.53 times
Ask Orrery: a small system of its own, Jupiter’s major moons to explore
Ask Orrery: every world keeps its own time, one lap around the Sun

Three prepared answers in the live prototype: gravity, moons, a year

Made with Astra

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Made with GPT6 Astra, on the same 3D loop as RIPS, my pack-opening app concept.

Astra
The working atlas: the 3D sky in the browser, the timeline, the curiosities and the visual answers.
Me
The learning design: what sparks curiosity, what goes one layer deeper, what a visual answer should show.
The loop
Test in the simulated Duo, refine the pages, rebuild with Astra, test again.
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