CASE 116 / Intel / 2011
The Museum of Me
Personal Facebook material became an elegant virtual museum, making computing feel like a means of seeing your own life differently.
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Sources reviewed 2026-11-05
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Credits: Projector for Intel; Rhizomatiks provided technical direction, with additional production and design partners listed by Panoramatiks.
Recognition: 2012 One Show Merit, Interactive: Online Films & Video / Short Form - Single.
Launch / edition: 2011. Award years: 2012.
The problem. The idea. The experience.
The award entry describes a goal of elevating Intel’s brand and promoting a new processor. Rather than asking consumers to care about an invisible component directly, the work offered a personalised experience built from material they already recognised as their own.
How the idea came to life
The 2011 website connected to Facebook and arranged elements of a person’s social presence into a virtual museum. Photos, friends, Likes and other activity supplied the exhibits. Rhizomatiks’ technical-direction account describes the gallery-like visualisation; the user’s identity, rather than a generic product model, became the subject.
How it reached people
The experience lived online and encouraged Facebook sharing. Its output gave people something personal to show others, while the museum metaphor made the result understandable without a technical explanation. The campaign is distinct from Intel’s physical corporate-history museum and from later personalised-data campaigns.
Supporting sources: Primary technical-partner account → Primary award archive with entrant-reported results →
Read the data in context.
The numbers below describe different kinds of outcomes. Their date, scope and reporting source are part of the result.
- Reporting period
- First two weeks after launch in 2011
- Scope
- Sharing actions reported for The Museum of Me; not unique people or purchases
- Evidence
- Entrant case description in The One Show archive
- Reporting period
- First two weeks after launch in 2011
- Scope
- Platform impressions, with no public deduplication method; not unique reach
- Evidence
- Entrant case description in The One Show archive
The One Show entry reports more than 790,000 Facebook shares and more than 130 million Facebook impressions in the first two weeks after launch. These are entrant-reported platform activity, not independently audited unique viewers or processor purchases. The same record lists a 2012 Interactive Merit.
The creative mechanism.
A familiar cultural frame transforms personal data into a shareable visual experience
Choose a frame that elevates ordinary material
A gallery confers attention and care on things that might otherwise look like scattered posts. The transferable move is to organise familiar information through a meaningful frame. Choose a metaphor that helps participants understand their material rather than simply adding expensive visual effects to an unchanged data feed.
Make personalisation worth the permission
The benefit must justify the information requested. A current adaptation should ask for the minimum, explain use and retention, and permit preview and deletion. Do not treat historic access to a social graph as a blueprint for today’s permissions, platform rules or privacy expectations.
Design for the audience beyond the participant
A personalised output can be fascinating to its owner and dull or intrusive to everyone else. Give participants control over what is shared and make the exported story legible without revealing private context. Share rate alone does not establish that recipients understood the brand or welcomed the content.
Connect the experience to a credible capability
An impressive digital spectacle can make a technology company feel relevant, but it does not benchmark its hardware. Explain the relationship carefully and avoid implying that the experience demonstrates a measurable speed advantage unless a valid comparison exists. Keep experiential storytelling separate from technical performance proof.
The intended behavior loop
- 01Connect or contribute personal material
- 02View it through a new frame
- 03Choose what to share
- 04Introduce others to the experience
Growth job: Create awareness → invite personal participation → associate technology with meaningful experiences. This is an interpretation of the mechanism, not an audited attribution model.
A direction to take into the room.
Original editorial interpretation and proposed adaptation. This is a proposed adaptation, not historical campaign execution or a forecast.
The transferable principle
Transform a small amount of willingly supplied material into a meaningful, participant-controlled representation.
Keep these boundaries
Do not scrape social connections, expose other people’s information or equate a personalised spectacle with verified processor performance.
Turn the lesson into a test.
Illustrative adaptation, not a historical campaign fact
A small-team experiment
A design-tool startup offers an optional private mini-gallery made from three images the participant owns.
Build the test
- Use explicitly selected files rather than requesting an entire account or contact graph.
- Process locally where practical and explain any storage, deletion and export behaviour before submission.
- Provide a private preview with editing controls and a separate affirmative choice to export or share.
Measure the right thing
Measure completion, perceived usefulness, permission drop-off and brand understanding; never count exports as sales.
Know when to stop
Stop if rights are unclear, unrelated people’s data is exposed or the gallery requires more information than its benefit justifies.
How this reading fits your brief
Start with the useful part.
Best for: Create awareness → invite personal participation → associate technology with meaningful experiences
What to adapt: Transform a small amount of willingly supplied material into a meaningful, participant-controlled representation.
Prerequisites: Interactive design and engineering; Explicit data consent and deletion controls; Accessible visual alternatives; Asset-rights checking.
Smaller-team route: A design-tool startup offers an optional private mini-gallery made from three images the participant owns. Constraint: Do not scrape social connections, expose other people’s information or equate a personalised spectacle with verified processor performance.
Budget: Unknown; no verified historical campaign budget in the cited sources. No cost-fit claim is made.
Trade-offs and evidence: Read the limits below before choosing a test. There is no guaranteed reach, sales lift or ROAS.
Questions for your next brief
- What familiar information would become meaningful when carefully curated?
- Can the experience work without broad account access?
Sources & further reading.
Brand and award-entry results are attributed claims, not independent causal audits. Source links open the original third-party pages.
- Panoramatiks: Intel The Museum of Me →Primary technical-partner account · Supports: 2011 project, social-data visualisation and detailed production credits; page date not assumed to be first public launch.
- The One Show: The Museum of Me →Primary award archive with entrant-reported results · Supports: Brand/processor objective, interactive Facebook mechanism, first-two-week shares and impressions, 2012 Interactive Merit.
Independent educational analysis of external campaigns. These are not SNS client projects, endorsements or claims of involvement. Campaign facts and reported outcomes are attributed to their sources. Explanations, adaptations and test plans are original analysis and hypotheses, not proven causal findings.