Flutter Archive
Overview
Flutter Archive began as a virtual reality reading experience designed to explore how poetry could be consumed through active participation rather than passive scrolling. The core idea was to reimagine the act of reading as a spatial, embodied interaction—where meaning unfolds through movement, attention, and choice.
The Concept
Embodied Reading
To test the feasibility of this concept, the experience was first developed as a web-based prototype, allowing interaction patterns, pacing, and narrative flow to be evaluated before full VR implementation. This decision grounded the project in practical UX experimentation while preserving its immersive intent.
The experience places users in an open, calming environment where butterflies appear, drift, and disappear. Each butterfly interaction reveals a single line of a poem, delivered in small, intentional doses.
Design Approach
Co-Created Meaning
This design approach treats reading as a co-created act. The user is not simply consuming text but assembling it through interaction. Progress is communicated subtly through visual indicators rather than explicit instructions, allowing discovery to feel personal and unforced.
The butterfly animations, built with Lottie, function simultaneously as interface elements and narrative metaphors - symbolizing fragility, memory, and the fleeting nature of meaning.
The Prototype
The web prototype recreates the intended VR atmosphere using layered gradients, ambient motion, and spatial pacing. UI components such as the poem panel, progress markers, and controls are intentionally restrained, designed to support reflection rather than dominate attention.
A separate test environment was created to validate animation transparency, scaling, and environmental integration before committing to immersive hardware constraints.
"How might immersive systems encourage readers to slow down, participate, and inhabit a poem—rather than simply finish it?"
Experience It
Explore the interactive prototype.
Launch Interactive Demo