Decoded: Australian Signals Directorate

Canberra, Australia

How do you show something designed to stay hidden?

Decoded marked 75 years of the Australian Signals Directorate, opening up highly classified, technical work to a public audience without flattening it.

ASD Decoded exhibition overview
UX / interaction design sketch

We developed the exhibition concept, narrative framework, and visitor flow. I shaped the experience strategy, UX, and story structure, defining how visitors moved from its origins in the Second World War through to contemporary cyber security.

content map
ASD Decoded exhibition wall display
ASD Decoded interactive display

The design made invisible systems legible through interactive and media elements, balancing secrecy with public understanding without reducing the material to simple explanation.

ASD Decoded central exhibition space

It offers a rare view into a world built on concealment, while still respecting the limits of what can be shown.

Collaborators

National Museum of Australia Australian Signals Directorate