DareDrop, December 2025

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Tidbit, June 2025

How might we design a lightweight social platform that enables small groups of friends to share genuine, everyday moments - without the pressure of likes, feeds, or performative posting?

Process

User Research: Conducted thorough interviews and surveys to understand frustrations with current ways of connecting and documenting (performativity + lack of intimacy vs. too private or no incentive to share).
Ideation & Prototyping: Endless brainstorm sessions, sketched and wireframed multiple interaction models, converging on the scrapbook metaphor.
Usability Testing: Iterated on simple prototype interactions using Figma with peers, refining flows for seamless contribution and minimizing friction.
Development: a functional prototype built with React Native and TypeScript that allows for creating group books and sharing pages in real time.
Refinement & Branding: Applied design heuristics to ensure the app felt light, approachable, and intuitive, testing different branding themes with users to determine what felt right.

Solution

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WaitLess, June 2025

Process

Research & Insights: Conducted user interviews with patients and therapists to identify pain points in existing journaling and therapy support tools.

Key finding: patients wanted something that felt low-stakes and natural, while providers needed structured, clinically valuable data.
Concept Development: Explored multiple approaches to bridging patient and provider needs.

Landed on a voice-based interaction model for patients, paired with a summarization dashboard for therapists.
Design & Prototyping: Created wireframes and mockups of both the patient-facing conversational UI and the therapist dashboard.

Iterated on tone and interaction design to ensure the product felt gentle, supportive, and non-performative.
Development & Testing: Led front-end development and contributed to back-end/data structure design.

Built a functional prototype integrating voice input, AI-driven summarization, and provider dashboards.

Conducted usability testing with peers and adapted flows to balance ease of use with clinical rigor.

Solution

Outcome

Project Edison, March 2022

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