The whole Symbiosis product family concept that includes the gaming phone, deck and gaming controller.
For my Bachelor of Arts thesis, I designed a new concept for a family of gaming phone that would be intuitive to use, but which would also embody the gaming experience.
Symbiosis is a family concept that consists of three devices: a gaming phone, a game controller, and a dock. The idea was that there could be some novel solutions among the gaming phones, as existing gaming phones are mostly quite similar and the gaming experience they offer is not much different from regular smartphones. In addition, the background study showed that there was a demand for a "gamer aesthetic".
The project included a survey and a market review of current gaming phones to find out people's perceptions of gaming phones and gaming. The thesis was carried out as individual work. The project was challenging but rewarding at the same time.
Symbiosis gaming phone. The phone has a design that is quite minimalistic, but which has still maintained some of gamer aesthetics feel.
Symbiosis gaming controller. It has a display in order to do basic mobile phone's tasks, while the gaming phone is inside the deck. These include answering phone calls, sending message, answering video calls et cetera.
Gaming controller's user interface. The gaming controller works in a similar way to a smartwatch, so the controller has the same operating system as the gaming phone. In this case, it is a modified Android.
Symbiosi deck. This is where phone can be put in in order to play console games. It has three USB-C connections and fans inside to cool the phone.
