Additional UI/UX Design Work Portfolio Case Studies - Page 3
A third collection of UI/UX and product design work from The Skins Factory, continuing more than 25 years of designing digital products across industries, platforms, and technologies. From focused applications to larger product ecosystems, every project reflects the same approach: understand the problem, simplify the experience, and give the product a visual identity that feels intentional. You can also explore our main UI/UX Design Portfolio and Case Studies.
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Additional UI/UX Design Projects
This third collection of UI/UX design work continues our main UI/UX design portfolio with another group of projects created for major global brands, technology companies, and products used by millions of people. The work spans different industries, platforms, and generations of software, showing how our approach has evolved while the fundamentals of good product design have remained remarkably consistent.
Projects featured in this collection include work for the NFL, Panasonic, Nortel, Target, and multiple redesigns of Nero's ShowTime media player, along with a range of other desktop, mobile, web, and digital product experiences. Some involved established products with large existing user bases. Others required creating entirely new interfaces, interaction models, and visual systems. In every case, the goal was to make the product easier to understand, more efficient to use, and visually appropriate for the people and brand behind it.
More than 25 years of UI/UX design means working through enormous changes in technology without chasing design trends for their own sake. Platforms change. Devices change. User expectations change. The job is still to understand the product, remove unnecessary friction, and create an experience that feels clear, considered, and built for the people using it. Continue through the projects below, and if your company needs a design team with that kind of range and experience, say hello.
NFL CHYRON VISUAL EXPLORATION
Visual Design Proof-of-Concept for 10’ Interface
The NFL contracted The Skins Factory to explore and create visual design elements for their 10-foot television interface shown on their ultra-popular television program, Total Access. Our design team created multiple comps and concepts that delivered a visually rich, on-screen display designed to deliver a futuristic style. The images shown represent our favorite versions. Touchdown!
FYRETV
Entertainment + Media VOD App UI/UX Design + Brand Identity + Company/Product Name Creation
The Skins Factory developed the entire UI/UX design for FyreTV, from designing icons and mapping out the remote control to the full-screen UI. We also developed the FyreTV TV guide, the account and login screens, settings panels, and even the icons and placement of them on the remote. The results, as Wired.com states, are a “super slick interface.” The Skins Factory also came up with the brand name FyreTV and brand identity.
BLOCKBRIDGE
Cybersecurity Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Blockbridge Networks delivers secure storage technologies for enterprise customers. The Skins Factory was brought in to design the user interface and interaction design for their flagship application. Our team of UI/UX design experts worked closely with the Blockbridge leadership to design a forward-thinking visual design not often found in enterprise-based application products.
JAMCLOUD
Entertainment Media - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
When JamCloud, a free social music app that allows users to play music and watch videos with others in real time, had a dream, a concept, and a rough prototype they needed to turn into a working product, they contracted The Skins Factory to whip up a slick little UI to bring their product to life.
ZENVIEWER FOR IPAD
Media File Manager iPad App UI/UX Design + Brand Identity
The critically acclaimed file viewer, reader, manager, and audio recorder. ZenViewer was designed by The Skins Factory with a singular purpose in mind: to design the most stylized and intuitive iOS file viewer and reader in the world. The app received outstanding reviews and critical acclaim.
PANASONIC ARBITRATOR
Law Enforcement Recording Software - Touchscreen App UI/UX Design
Panasonic Corporation of North America and our team joined forces to create the touchscreen-based interface for their Toughbook Arbitrator mobile client application, the software side of their groundbreaking Toughbook Arbitrator, a rugged revolution in law enforcement video capture. An important consideration during the development process was to create versions for both day and night use.
REDPRAIRIE
Enterprise SaaS Web & Mobile App UI/UX Design
Enterprise software giant RedPrairie contracted The Skins Factory to design the user interface and interaction design for multiple applications, resulting in perfect symmetry between their enterprise software application user interfaces. This included 3 desktop browser interfaces, a mobile browser app, and a native Android app. We also created a custom design system for the RedPrairie developers.
HYPERLINKS
Proof of Concept iPad App UI/UX Design + Brand Identity Design
In-house proof of concept. The Skins Factory is designing Hyperlinks for iPad, a bookmark and browser experience never before seen on any platform. Manage bookmarks in categories, view your hyperlinks in multiple layouts, customize each bookmark, secure categories with passwords, and even launch multiple web pages at the same time with the application's custom launchpad and browser.
NORTEL PC COMMUNICATIONS
Communications Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Nortel contracted The Skins Factory to redesign their feature-rich communications application, the Nortel PC Client. The PC Client is an application that provides advanced IP telephony features not featured on traditional phones. By completion, The Skins Factory created over 45 separate screens and UI assets with a strong focus on ease of use and an attractive visual design aesthetic.
TARGET'S STUDIO RED MUSIC STORE
Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Target commissioned The Skins Factory to design the main layout of their music store desktop application, StudioRed. The Skins Factory's experience designing media players is legendary, having started out as a Windows Media Player skin design studio. Our team worked closely with the creative team from Target, along with a third-party design studio who handled creating the actual music store layout.
NERO SHOWTIME 3
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Nero contracted The Skins Factory four separate times to design the user interface and interaction design for the Nero ShowTime media player application. The results are readily apparent, a super tactile design with a generous helping of easy-to-use interaction design. In an effort to create a smaller footprint on the desktop, our team designed a special micro-mode version of the main player.
NERO SHOWTIME 4
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Nero contracted The Skins Factory four separate times to design the user interface and interaction design for the Nero ShowTime media player application. The results are readily apparent, a super tactile design with a generous helping of easy-to-use interaction design. Meticulous attention was paid to lighting and shadow effects throughout the visual design creation process.
IRIVER PLUS
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
When The Skins Factory was approached to design and create iRiver's new digital jukebox user interface, iRiver Plus, our team set out to develop a style that would set this application apart in a market saturated with digital audio media players and jukeboxes. A fusion of functionality and design, iRiver Plus is the culmination of years of user interface design experience and attention to detail that vaulted this desktop audio appliance ahead of its competitors.
MOTOROLA IRADIO
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Motorola, Inc. and The Skins Factory collaborated on the creation of the beta user interface for their iRadio music application. The Skins Factory's design squad created a tactile environment using deep cobalt blues and shiny alloys that deliver a rich, real-world feeling to the end user. We started with detailed wireframes before diving into the actual visual design mocks. The player was then modeled in 3D to support the animation sequences we had planned for the player.
NVIDIA REACTOR FOR XFIRE
Communications + Messenger - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
NVIDIA and The Skins Factory presented the NVIDIA Reactor skin for the Xfire skinnable gaming chat system. Designed like a future-world communication device, NVIDIA Reactor, with its obsidian colored glass and jet black rubber trim, brings to life a Blade Runner–esque style that gamers everywhere enjoyed. The skin was so successful that NVIDIA then contracted The Skins Factory to create a custom Windows Media Player skin that shared the same design language, one of our most popular WMP skins ever.
ZENVIEWER FOR IPHONE
Media File Management - Mobile App UI/UX Design, Brand Identity
ZenViewer for iPhone was a prototype app design The Skins Factory mocked up as a follow-up to our critically acclaimed iPad app, ZenViewer HD. ZenViewer for iPhone offered a structured folder architecture for storing and viewing document files, images, music, and videos, and even allows you to record and play back your own audio files. While never reaching code development, ZenViewer for iPhone demonstrates The Skins Factory's prowess when it comes to UI and UX design.
TDK DIGITAL MIXMASTER
Media Player + Recorder - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
TDK Electronics Corporation came to The Skins Factory to build the default interface for their proprietary audio player. The TDK Digital MixMaster was part of the CD Blender Software Suite of applications that shipped with their veloCD reWriters. While this is a little bulky in terms of today's UI design language, in 2001, when we created this, it was cutting edge. This is proof positive that we were ahead of our time, even when our studio was only a year old. ZDNet called our UI design a spiffy, circular skin.
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More answers about designing established products, modernizing software, working with major brands, and creating interfaces that can evolve across multiple generations of a product.
01Have you designed products for major global brands?
Yes. This portfolio collection includes work for organizations such as the NFL, Panasonic, Nortel, and Target, along with a range of technology and software companies. Large brands often bring established visual standards, existing audiences, internal stakeholders, and high expectations for quality. The challenge is to create an experience that works as a product while still feeling appropriate for the company and the people already familiar with its brand.
02Can you redesign an established product without losing what existing users already know?
Yes. A successful redesign should improve the product without making experienced users relearn everything unnecessarily. Existing navigation patterns, workflows, terminology, and behaviors may already have significant value. We look at what should remain familiar, what has become outdated or inefficient, and where the interface can be modernized without disrupting the product's underlying strengths.
03Do you work on multiple generations or redesigns of the same software?
Yes. Our work has included multiple redesigns of Nero's ShowTime media player as the product evolved over time. Returning to the same product across different generations creates a different kind of design challenge because the interface has to move forward while respecting what made the existing product recognizable and useful. It also allows the design to respond to changes in technology, features, visual standards, and user expectations rather than treating a product as something designed only once.
04How do you modernize older or legacy software?
Modernization starts by separating what is visually dated from what is functionally important. Older software often contains years of accumulated workflows and capabilities that users still depend on. The goal is not to remove complexity simply to make the interface look cleaner. It is to reorganize that complexity, improve hierarchy and interaction patterns, reduce unnecessary friction, and create a more contemporary experience without eliminating the functionality that made the product valuable in the first place.
05Can the same UI/UX design approach work across very different industries?
The design process can be consistent, but the solution should not be. A product for a telecommunications company such as Nortel has different users, workflows, and expectations than work for the NFL, Panasonic, Target, or a desktop media application. We begin by understanding the product, its users, its environment, and its business requirements, then build the interface around those realities rather than applying the same visual formula to every project.
06How do you design products that need to evolve over many years?
The interface needs a strong underlying structure rather than relying on a visual trend that may quickly become dated. Navigation, hierarchy, interaction patterns, reusable components, and product behaviors should provide a foundation that can accommodate new features and changing technology. Visual design can evolve over time, but a well-organized user experience gives the product continuity as new versions, platforms, and requirements are introduced.
