Selected work

Smithsonian exhibition · Cultural heritage virtual tour

Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond

A layered virtual visit connecting art, neighborhood history, oral storytelling, and the changing life of Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown.

A blue-walled exhibition corridor with historic photographs, murals, and an interactive media screen
Loren YbarrondoImmersive experience design + production

The experience

Sightlines asks visitors to look closely: at family histories, neighborhood landmarks, murals, photographs, and the forces that reshape a community. The tour keeps those threads connected without prescribing a single route.

01 / Challenge

Make the physical place make sense online.

Bring together panoramic space, detailed panels, artworks, historic photographs, and first-person stories in a way that encourages close reading.

02 / Response

Design the visit, not just the interface.

Use the gallery as an organizing landscape, then let visitors move into high-resolution panel views and media-rich stories whenever something catches their attention.

03 / Result

Give every visitor a way into the story.

An exploratory digital exhibition that moves fluidly between place, object, and testimony while remaining usable on desktop, mobile, and in an accessible reading mode.

What I did

  • Digital exhibition design
  • Panoramic capture
  • Deep-zoom content
  • Accessibility

Experience features

  • High-resolution panel viewers
  • Oral-history and media moments
  • Flexible scene navigation
  • Accessible companion experience

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