When going through the various visual styles that the project could take I first started with sketches in my sketchbook, trying to work out the complexities of the content and how they interacted with each other before diving into the visual system. I wanted the visual style to be something modern, on a light background (space always lends itself to dark colors but we wanted shake that up a bit.) We wanted the experience to focus on the positive, not the deep darkness that surrounds you in space and the seriousness of any malfunction but the light and beauty that surround you. If we could keep them focused on the positives the negatives would most likely fall to wayside. For that reason we chose a lighter UI and color scheme, and only one accent color, red. This gave the design a Bauhaus type feel, engineered a bit. We offset any rigor by using Lunatic as our main display font which has a whimsical tech feel when applied to the page which had strong grid lines and other "future UI" elements applied for good measure. We used three words, "experience, technology, future" as a focus direction for the content and design decisions that we made for the page.