MerlinInto Your Flow,
Merlin OS

Merlin OS is a flow operating system. It helps you reach your goals faster by minimizing app switching and cutting through complexity. It understands your context in real time and connects features across apps into one seamless experience. Forget rigid, app-centered interfaces—Merlin offers a more flexible, immersive way to work. Your digital journey starts here.

Yumin Kim, Soeun Lee, Jiwon An, Junhong Yang, Seohyeon Cho

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Static UI, layered like blocks
Everyone uses their phone differently: the apps they use, how they arrange the home screen, how they hold it, even how hard they press.
Yet today's mobile interfaces ignore these differences. The same buttons sit in the same places for everyone. Features stack like blocks on a fixed grid, passively waiting for you to learn and adapt.
Target
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Gen Z, caught in endless
digital dribbling
Static UI clashes with how Gen Z explores: rapid tab switching, hopping between launcher and recent tabs—repeating “digital dribbling” just to move forward.
Research
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The familiar maze, the same moves
Gen Z tends to focus on a small subset of features. They may have ~130 apps installed, but on average use only about 12 more than 10 times a week. Even inside those apps, a few actions dominate. The digital world becomes a familiar maze—complex on the surface, but navigated by the same taps and turns.

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Problem
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One goal, too many distractions
Even to achieve a clear, single objective, people bounce through home screens, drawers, recents, and in-app navigation—wasting time and energy. These “speed bumps” break flow and add cognitive fatigue.
Insight
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Gen Z needs flow, not apps
Apps are containers for features—but that container often interrupts flow. What if the needed features were connected into one continuous path from the start, guided by context and prediction?
Solution
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Into Your Flow, Merlin OS
Meet Merlin OS, a flow-first operating system. Merlin reshapes functions by context and bridges app boundaries to deliver one continuous experience. You no longer think about the controls—you stay in the zone.
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Three experiences, all flowing together
Built on three principles—Contextual Flow, Appless Interface, and Flexible UI—Merlin adapts to your context and habits. You simply follow the flow and arrive faster, without learning complex interfaces.
Contextual Flow: Just what you need, right when you need it
Merlin understands time, place, and even your grip patterns to compose flows that match your situation—so your digital journey feels natural and effortless.
By recognizing your time, location, and habits, Merlin automatically assembles the right tools. No redundant app hopping—what you need opens together on one screen.
Appless Interface: One seamless experience
Experience flows—not apps. You never dig through menus; functions come together on a single, continuous surface.
No laddering through hierarchies or switching between containers. The entire process happens in sequence on one screen—frictionless, distraction-free.
Flexible UI: immersion, made practical
Interactions align to their essential roles—information for deep focus, controls for natural action—kept in distinct layers instead of being crammed together.
Controls recompose around your hand position, habits, and patterns—so you reach intended actions with minimal movement.
Value
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Merlin OS’s new digital flow
Seamless focus an OS that learns you
With one uninterrupted flow (no app switching), Merlin reduces cognitive and operational fatigue—letting you focus immediately. Without explicit setup, it learns from your choices and interactions, evolving into a refined, personalized, algorithmic OS.
User experiences connected by flow
Merlin runs primarily on mobile, yet extends fluidly to AR, tablets, and desktops. A consistent, flow-based architecture brings boundary-less experiences to people and gives businesses a durable foundation for a multi-platform ecosystem.
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Designed By
김유민 프로필
김유민
PL · UX
Yumin Kim
이소은 프로필
이소은
UX
Soeun Lee
안지원 프로필
안지원
UX
Jiwon An
양준홍 프로필
양준홍
VD
Junhong Yang
조서현 프로필
조서현
UX
Seohyeon Cho

Tutor

Advisory Professor
김치헌
Chiheon Kim
Advisory Professor
이문환
Moonhwan Lee
VD tutor
이우성
Wooseong Lee
VD tutor
박수경
Sukyung Park
UX tutor
이진원
Jinwon Lee

Thanks to

Videographer
서영진
Youngjin Seo
Advisor
김도아
Doa Kim
Advisor
박상희
Sanghee Park
Advisor
문기섭
Kisub Moon
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