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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?

1. 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).

2. Ideation & Prototyping: Endless brainstorm sessions, sketched and wireframed multiple interaction models, converging on the scrapbook metaphor.

3. Usability Testing: Iterated on simple prototype interactions using Figma with peers, refining flows for seamless contribution and minimizing friction.
   

4. Development:  a functional prototype built with React Native and TypeScript that allows for creating group books and sharing pages in real time.

5. 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.

We created Tidbit, a social media app built around group books — collaborative scrapbooks shared among small friend groups. Each book acts as a shared canvas where members can casually add photos, text, and mixed media pages.

Unlike traditional feeds, Tidbit emphasizes:

︎ Intimacy → built for small groups, not audiences.
︎ Ease → contribution feels casual, low-effort, and unpolished.
︎ Playfulness → the scrapbook metaphor makes sharing creative and personal.

React Native, JavaScript, Firebase, Expo SDK, Expo Go

The Challenge: patients experience gaps between therapy sessions where they lack structured emotional support. Journaling apps and static surveys exist, but feel ingenuine, rigid, or high-effort, which discourages consistent use.

1. 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.
   
   

2. 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.
   
   

3. 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.
   
   

4. 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.

How might we create a gentle, low-friction way for patients to share emotional updates between therapy sessions, while giving therapists richer insight into their patients’ lived experience?

View demo here !

Waitless is a voice-based AI agent designed to support patients with casual, conversational check-ins. Instead of journaling, patients can simply speak to Waitless, lowering the barrier to emotional expression.

Provider side: Waitless aggregates patient check-ins into meaningful summaries and visual dashboards, offering therapists a clearer picture of their patients’ experiences between sessions. 

Waitless demonstrated that AI-powered, conversational check-ins could meaningfully reduce barriers to emotional sharing while also enhancing clinical insight. By centering both the emotional experience of patients and the practical needs of providers, we built a product that was both human-centered and clinically valuable.

In the day-to-day of a busy college student, how can keep our devices charged on-the-go?

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- battery is simultaneously attached to a solar panel, which contributes to its charge
- battery and charger is weather-protected
- phone can then be attached to portable battery for charging on-the-go