Selected project

Zeyo, culture à la carte, at the scale of Lisbon.

The project

In 2022, four of us designed Zeyo: a map-based social concept for discovering and sharing cultural places. My work covered graphic design, web design and illustration. The personal 2026 rework brings the project to Lisbon with a more specific question: where can you go, given your interests and available time?

01

You have just moved to Alfama.

You have just moved to Alfama. You have two hours to spare but do not know the neighbourhood yet. That scenario frames the rework: choose by interests, available time and walking distance. Suggestions start from those limits rather than a list of places without context.

02

Choose. Locate. Go out.

Interests, time and radius come before suggestions. The feed offers routes, the map locates them, and the place card brings together hours, price and visit conditions. The rework also explores evenings and meeting before a group outing. The screens show a prototype, including loading, confirmation and empty-result states.

03

2022: the starting idea.

“I would like to discover the heritage around me, but I need a guide.” That is the starting point of the 2022 concept for curious, undecided people. The map locates places, the feed shares favourites and lists save them. My blue drawings bring familiar artworks and contemporary visitors together.

04

Two marks, one language.

The 2022 design note connects the name to the museum and the owl to Athena and knowledge. The vine shoot invites people to seek their own branch; the map pin locates the discovery. The rework pairs a house with a location marker. Blue and Poppins connect both versions.

05

From the map to saved lists.

The wireframes organise maps, place cards, publishing and saved lists before visual styling. The journey moves from an overview to a specific suggestion that can be saved or shared. The 2022 mockups show that first structure, expanded in the Lisbon rework through time, distance and shared outings.

06

Lisbon, at walking height.

My Lisbon photographs give the project its setting: steep streets, trams, façades and azulejos. These are the places the rework responds to, at the scale of a neighbourhood explored on foot.

Credits

2022 — graphic design, web design and illustrations: Michel Abiaga Nguema; UI: Gabrielle Jambu; UX: Juliette Beaudichon; project management: Élodie Borieux.

2026 — personal concept exploration in Lisbon; prototype supplied in Zeyo Mobile App Design. Technical contributions to this iteration remain to be detailed.

Lisbon photographs and drawings shown: Michel Abiaga Nguema.

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