Hellenic Horizon came from noticing how easy it is to walk past Greek vases in a museum without really looking at them. I picked three vases with different myths (Apollo playing the lyre, Hercules fighting the Hydra, the Gods battling the Giants) and animated the figures in After Effects and Photoshop, separating each figure from its background then puppeteering the movement, with sound design built from combined effects clips.

The card sorting test caught something I didn’t expect: some vase photos were still monochrome, some were colour, and users sorted by photo colour instead of vase type, assuming black and white meant older. The real problem wasn’t the vases, it was my documentation. I reshot the whole 60+ piece collection so every photo matched.

The filter system didn’t fully work out. Figma doesn’t let you apply two Variables to the same layer, so only the “Technique” filter actually works in the Hi-Fi prototype, the rest are just visual. Next time I’d move that logic into code so people could filter by shape, era, and technique all at once.