The design of the app takes on a graphical element. I took close up photos of skin and in photoshop lifted out sections to create this fragmented and distorted body matter, reflecting what the app allows the user to do. I carried on this theme by using flesh tones and geometric forms that are used to symbolised genes.
No. 1 allows the user to scan the body part which they want to change, fundamentally reading or decoding the body, in the way that a QR code and scanner works. I thought that this illustrated the leak of technologies quite clearly and really the idea isn't too far fetched and seems quite plausible that this will be possible in the near future. To enforce this the screen layout is based upon a QR scanner, with the guidelines to help focus the section.
No. 2 adopts the fragmented skin photos as its theme and encourages the user to selected the exact section of the genome (read and decoded from the previous step). The polygon echoes the standard symbol for genes, but at the same time portrays a digital quality. I included the button 'clone' to make reference to they body and an 'organic' substance is being dealt with. However I then added the button 'delete' instead of destroy to maintain this leak and amalgamation of the two 'technologies' or 'information'. I believe that these two simple buttons alone pose significant questions concerning the future and the responsibilities that technology has to think about the consequences it may have.
No. 3 is based on the layout for a programme writing/ editing tool, again enforcing the idea that users will be able to write or edit their own 'body programme'.
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