Shining Nikki × Sanrio — Collab Event UI
Background
A limited-time IP collaboration event UI for Shining Nikki × Sanrio. The task — fold Sanrio's soft, dessert-like visual language into the game's existing anime dress-up tone without breaking it.
Challenge (draft, to be rewritten by owner): deliver Sanrio's sweetness while keeping Nikki's refined, premium feel.
Design Thinking CORE
- Form transformation: deriving the collab logo from in-game elements. The starting point came from the in-game "Sun-and-Moon outfit"; its moon shape became the base form for the main logo. Combined with Sanrio's dessert cues (pudding, cookie trim, cream texture), the base form was evolved step by step into the final event logo and icons.
- A unified thematic mood. A warm-orange and cream-yellow dessert palette, with soft light and pudding/cookie textures, ties the whole screen to a "tea-break / dessert" theme. (Palette rationale is a draft — owner to add real reasoning.)
- Restrained treatment of function entries. Invite, check-in and gift entries were unified into soft round buttons, dialed down so the key visual (character + title) keeps focus.
Process / Evolution
Base floral form (pale draft)
→ Deepened & shaped (brown)
→ Dessert texture + Sanrio cues
→ Finished icon (e.g. pudding star)
The icons grew from a base floral form, layering texture and Sanrio cues step by step. This full "from one shape to finished asset" chain is exactly what AI image generation can't show.
Outcome
Main event page
Invite entry
Check-in entry
Gift / countdown module
Distilling a base form from the in-game "Sun-and-Moon outfit" and fusing it with Sanrio's dessert elements, the result is a themed event UI that reads clearly as the collab while keeping Nikki's refined tone.