Balboa Hubbl

Finalist
Credits
  • Pou Auaha / Creative Directors
    Erin Hoffman, Jared Bedford, Guy Sawrey-Cookson
  • Ringatoi Matua / Design Director
    Sally-Anne Kerr
  • Kaituhi Matua / Copywriter Lead
    Jared Bedford
  • Ngā Kaimahi / Team Members
    Mark Sayer, Nakita Carey, Jamie Carbery, Anastasia Liolio, Grischa Theissen, Parag Satyal, Ben Headon, Matt White, Ben Holden, Anthony Brooker
  • Kaitautoko / Contributor
    Peter Sunna (2D Pete)
  • Client
    Hubbl
Description:

In a time when audiences subscribe to, manage and pay for several streaming services, Hubbl makes streaming easy. It fuses the world’s biggest apps into one single, simple UI.

To do this, Hubbl works behind the scenes, providing a sophisticated (but invisible) entertainment infrastructure. The challenge for us was that word – invisible. Where most entertainment brands lead with beautiful content imagery, Hubbl's different. A pure aggregator, it has no content. So we needed another way in.

Our idea was 'Modern Magic'. It’s easy to miss the magic behind-the-scenes. The algorithms fueling recommendations. The tech pulling apps together. The infrastructure that’s vital, but invisible. This design system helps people see it. United app tiles – derived from the UI itself – form a flexible, endless grid, keeping third party app logos front-and-centre. But look a little closer between those apps to find the magic that pulls it all together.