The PlayStation Store wanted to showcase an infographic style immersive carousel for TVs running the PlayStation 4, celebrating the history of the console, its key milestones, fun facts, most popular games, and editor’s picks.
The final design was localised into 15 languages using a custom Photoshop script I wrote to save many hours doing it by hand.
Final results
Scroll the below to view the full carousel as displayed on a TV. The blue “Did You Know?” bubbles expanded on hover to display a fun fact about the PS4. All the years, and big and small text areas were clickable and took the user to a selection of games or videos to purchase in that category.
The end of the timeline was a nearly-full-screen video that was part of the original launch campaign. There was a lot of trickery with templates and the system to make all of this display the way it did!
The design process
This project was challenging because the infographic had to look dynamic and varied to reflect the PlayStation brand and the games featured. The tricky part was that the layout had to adhere to the limitations of the store’s CMS, which used a strict grid system with rectangular banner slots.
Moodboard presented to stakeholders for approval, with an aim to show beautiful, bold game artwork, eye-catching headings and a modern, slick infographic style. 
The layout grid: sections in green were selectable and had a white rectangle showing the selection on the console itself, so the design had to ensure this wasn’t cutting across key text or characters’ eyes and such.
The fonts used had to adhere to PlayStation Store brand guidelines, so I used the SST font, and Bebas Neue which had been previously chosen as a secondary PlayStation Store sub-brand font at the time, for headings and key messaging.
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