Anythink - The 90s Portal

While working at Wilco, the product team tried to incorporate an early 90s style OS to the platform. Inspired by macOS and early windows versions, I've created a working portal, complete with modern architecture and content management systems - that looks like it travelled in time from the early 1990s.

Product Design • UI/UX • Branding

The inspiration - Windows 95 and Mac OS 9

Upon entering for the first time, the user encounters a boot screen similar to old DOS operating systems.

The OS in all its glory. The Portal included randomly generated news from 1990's newspapers, a curated playlist by yours truly, usage of abandonware icons from windows 3.11 and sound effects.

More Portal designs - including a 404 page and a personal portal page. Instead of using stock photos, we had a special retro photoshootincluding Wilco's own employees as models.

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