Interactive Installation · GLMC 2026
Takamol Academy
Designing a touch-free spatial experience for Saudi Arabia's largest labour market summit — turning a complex workforce ecosystem into an intuitive, immersive installation for 10,000+ attendees.
Year
2026
Company
Eventagrate
Role
Interactive & UX Designer
Tools
Ventuz, Figma
Overview
Takamol Holding needed a centrepiece installation at the 2026 Global Labour Market Conference — attended by 40 labour ministers from 100+ countries — to communicate their digital labour platform to government officials and industry leaders. The brief wasn't to build a presentation. It was to make a data-heavy platform feel alive to an audience with only minutes to spare.
Constraints
Dense content, specialist audience
Policy data and platform features had to be layered: scannable at a glance, explorable on demand.
No touch on a curved screen
LIDAR sensors replaced laser-touch, enabling hover-based interaction with zero physical contact and no instructions needed.
Two screens, one system
The curved LED and floor display had to respond to each other as a unified experience.
My Role
Lead designer on the Foundation centrepiece screen at Eventagrate — from brainstorm through delivery. I owned the information architecture, interaction model, visual design in Figma, and the full Ventuz build. I was in client meetings at every stage, managing revisions with the Interactive Producer and PM.
Process
Early designs laid the 6-stage workforce journey out flat — legible, but passive. For an audience of ministers walking past an exhibition stand, that wasn't enough.
The shift was moving from 2D panel transitions to a rotating 3D cube: each face reveals one stage of the journey. Hover to rotate, one stage in focus at a time. The rotation became the narrative — you're moving through a system, not reading a list. A burst-reveal effect on each rotation added energy without adding noise.
Interaction Flow
Exploration & Iterations
Early designs were visually rich but cognitively heavy — too much competing for attention at once. Iterations moved toward stronger hierarchy, larger type, and motion-driven reveal to guide the eye across the curved surface.
Outcome
Exhibited at GLMC 2026, King Abdulaziz International Conference Center. Visitors navigated the full workforce journey through hover gestures — no onboarding, no physical contact. The client reported strong satisfaction with the experience.
Touch-free interaction across a curved exhibition surface
Complex data made navigable without instruction
Two-screen system working as one unified experience
Reflection
Designing for dense content isn't about showing everything — it's about what earns attention at each moment. The LIDAR constraint became the most memorable design decision: an interaction that asks something of the user creates engagement that passive display never does.
