I checked the astronomical data and found that the interval between each moon phase is not constant even though we use the same interval to calculate the date. Since this piece is more important to relate to nature, I stick with the moon phase API.

About the User Experience which is always the part I keep in mind. Compared with a product, subjective expression should be the priority for the art piece rather than the UX, but it doesn’t mean UX is not important. Oppositely, the UX becomes much harder in this way. I have the desire to let viewers know what’s the piece talks about, but instead of trying to please viewers and seek viewers’ approval, I hope they might be able to move from confusion to enlightenment. Naturally, the UX design has to be different with various pieces, the common user research methodologies might not apply. 

For this piece, I gave the name “Crimson Tide”, and I prepare a poster to “explain” the analogy relationship between tide and menstruation. I choose to use the excerpts from poetry and literature as the reference rather than the direct inspiration description. Eventhough both of the text and installation are relatively abstractive, them can explain each other. I assume this is a effective way but let’s see what happend in the Spring show.

Final Demo: