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Aurora Systems

Signals, made visible — a living brand world for an infrastructure-intelligence platform.
Client
Aurora Systems, Inc.
Role
Brand world + site
Year
2026
Timeline
14 weeks
[ aurora_hero_globe.mp4 — replace ]Homepage · Signal Globe
01Overview
ClientAurora Systems, Inc.
SectorInfrastructure intelligence
Year2026
ScopeBrand world + marketing site
TeamSolo + platform team

Aurora had a category-leading product wrapped in a generic SaaS site — the flagship visualisation buried three clicks deep, the homepage a feature list.

I rebuilt the brand around a single idea: every surface behaves like a live signal. The identity isn't a static mark — it's a particle field driven by real telemetry, calm when the network is calm and alive when it moves. The website stopped describing the product and started being it.

The mandate: make the site feel as intelligent as the product, put the flagship at the centre of the story, and rebuild the funnel so the site does the selling.

Flagship — the Signal Globe

The product, on the first screen.

I pulled Aurora's real-time network view out of the app and made it the hero — a live, rotatable globe of the customer's infrastructure, arcs of traffic and nodes lighting in signal colour as telemetry streams. Visitors don't read about the product. They watch it breathe.

[ signal_globe_live.mp4 — replace ]Feature demo · loops
02Key components
[ particle_identity.mp4 ]Identity
01

Particle identity engine

A generative brand mark wired to live telemetry. The logo is a particle field that brightens and drifts with real network activity — never the same frame twice, calm when the network is calm.

[ topology_configurator.mp4 ]Interaction
02

Topology configurator

A build-your-network module where a prospect assembles their own infrastructure shape and watches Aurora visualise it live. Self-qualification disguised as play — and the warm input that pre-fills their demo request.

[ trust_band.png ]Component
03

Status & trust band

Real uptime, throughput and SOC-2 posture rendered in the same signal language as the product. Credibility shown, not claimed — every number monospaced so data always looks like data.

[ funnel_architecture.png ]Strategy
04

Funnel architecture

The old cold path became a guided descent — Watch, Build, Trust, Convert. The product earns the meeting before a form is ever shown, so demo requests arrive warm.

[ motion_system.mp4 ]System
05

Motion & signal system

A rulebook for when the interface is allowed to move: never for attention, only for a change in the data. A particle brightens because a node did — which is what makes the whole thing feel trustworthy.

03Design philosophy
Signal colour is rationed hard. It only ever appears as live data — never decoration.
Aurora palette — an aurora in an obsidian sky
Obsidian
Primary surface — the night sky
#0A0C11
Signal Green
Healthy / nominal telemetry
#57DBA6
Aurora Teal
Throughput & flow
#43C2D2
Ion Violet
Anomalies & alerts
#8779EC
Mist
Body text & UI on obsidian
#C7D0D9
Principles
  • The brand is never the same twice.
  • Numbers always look like data.
  • Motion is reserved for change.
  • Obsidian first — let signal speak.
  • Show credibility, never claim it.
Aa DisplayGROTESK · TIGHT
99.982% · 04msMONO · DATA
04Gallery
06 frames · drop media to replace
[ homepage_hero.mp4 ]
[ configurator.png ]
[ trust_band.png ]
[ particle_states.png ]
[ mobile_funnel.png ]
[ full_homepage_scroll.mp4 ]
Live site
Visit the site
aurora.systems · placeholder link
[ homepage_live.mp4 — replace ]Live
+41%Qualified demo requests
3.1×Median time on page
0.9sLargest contentful paint
Credits
Creative directionAlexander Smith
Design & art directionAlexander Smith
WebGL & graphicsAlexander Smith
Telemetry integrationAurora platform team
Year2026
Deliverables
  • Brand world & art direction
  • Real-time WebGL homepage
  • Signal Globe build
  • Topology configurator
  • Design & motion system
  • Marketing site — 12 templates
Tech stack
WebGLThree.jsGLSLWebSocketReactGSAPLenisDraco / KTX2
Creative Web Designer & Developer25.2048°N · 55.2708°E

AlexanderSmith

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