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Sensai — Wearable Intelligence for Independent Navigation
Sensai is an AI-powered wearable assistive device designed to help visually impaired individuals navigate the world with greater confidence, awareness, and independence.
The product reimagines how accessibility technology should feel: not as a medical device, but as a piece of advanced consumer technology that users would be proud to wear every day.
The Problem
For millions of visually impaired individuals, navigating unfamiliar environments remains challenging.
Traditional mobility solutions often rely heavily on canes, external assistance, or devices that provide limited environmental understanding. While effective, many solutions focus only on obstacle detection and fail to provide a richer understanding of the surrounding world.
Sensai was conceived to bridge that gap.
The Solution
Sensai is a wearable AI companion that sits comfortably around the neck and continuously interprets the user's surroundings.
Using a combination of onboard sensors, computer vision, spatial awareness, and real-time processing, the device can detect obstacles, identify objects, understand environmental context, and deliver intuitive guidance to the user.
Rather than simply warning users about dangers, Sensai aims to translate the physical world into actionable intelligence.
Key Capabilities
AI-Powered Scene Understanding
The device continuously analyzes the environment to understand what's around the user, helping them navigate more confidently.
Real-Time Obstacle Detection
Detects nearby objects and hazards, allowing users to react before encountering them.
Spatial Awareness
Provides directional guidance and contextual awareness, creating a more natural navigation experience.
Wearable-First Design
Unlike bulky assistive devices, Sensai is designed to be lightweight, comfortable, and suitable for daily use.
Always Available
The form factor allows users to access assistance instantly without needing to hold or interact with additional devices.
Design Philosophy
Accessibility products often sacrifice aesthetics for functionality.
Sensai challenges that assumption.
The industrial design draws inspiration from premium consumer electronics, automotive surfaces, and futuristic wearable technology. Smooth curves, precision detailing, integrated lighting elements, and a balanced form create a product that feels advanced yet approachable.
The objective was simple:
Design something users would want to wear, not something they feel obligated to wear.
Product Thinking
The strongest products solve both functional and emotional problems.
For visually impaired users, independence is not only about mobility—it is also about confidence.
Every design decision behind Sensai was guided by three principles:
Confidence
Provide users with greater certainty about their surroundings.
Simplicity
Deliver information naturally without overwhelming the user.
Dignity
Create an assistive device that feels empowering rather than clinical.
By combining AI, hardware, and thoughtful industrial design, Sensai transforms navigation from a challenge into a more intuitive experience.
Engineering Vision
Sensai represents the intersection of:
Artificial Intelligence
Embedded Systems
Computer Vision
Wearable Technology
Human-Centered Design
Accessibility Innovation
The product explores how emerging technologies can be used not only to automate tasks but to meaningfully improve quality of life.
Impact
Sensai is built around a simple belief:
Technology should not just be smart. It should make people feel more capable.
By helping visually impaired individuals better understand and interact with their surroundings, Sensai seeks to create a future where independence is more accessible to everyone.
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Access Atlas
Reimagining how people understand accessibility.
Every day, people with different accessibility needs choose not to visit places they want to explore because they are uncertain whether those spaces will actually work for them.
Not because they do not want to go.
But because they do not have enough confidence to know if they can.
Access Atlas was created to reduce that uncertainty.
It is a personalized accessibility platform that helps users understand how accessible a place will be for their specific needs before making the effort to visit.
Through personalized accessibility profiles, accessibility snapshots, AI-assisted discovery, and immersive accessibility previews, Access Atlas transforms accessibility from a generic label into something personal and actionable.
Building with the Figma Ecosystem
This project became an opportunity to explore how different parts of the Figma ecosystem can work together as one connected workflow.
Figma MCP → Research & Discovery
The process started with understanding the problem before designing the solution.
Using Figma MCP, I gathered references, researched accessibility patterns, explored existing experiences, collected inspiration, and organized insights into a structured discovery process.
This phase helped identify an important gap:
Accessibility information exists, but it is often fragmented, generic, and rarely personalized.
That insight became the foundation of Access Atlas.
Figma Design Agent → Design Exploration & Iteration
Design Agent became my creative companion throughout the project.
I used it across the entire workflow:
• Converting rough sketches and low fidelity wireframes into polished interfaces
• Generating and exploring multiple design directions
• Building and expanding the design system
• Applying visual changes across multiple screens simultaneously
• Replacing placeholders with actual visual content
• Accelerating iteration while maintaining intentional design decisions
Rather than designing for me, Design Agent allowed me to spend more time refining ideas and less time repeating tasks.
Figma Weave → Workflow Acceleration & Visual Creation
Figma Weave unlocked an entirely new way of creating.
I used Weave to build AI-powered workflows that made the process significantly faster and more flexible.
Using Weave, I:
• Created a complete icon system from scratch
• Generated graphical assets and supporting visual elements
• Experimented with multiple creative directions simultaneously
• Refined compositions and visual details
• Improved lighting and polish across graphical elements
• Explored outputs across different LLM workflows to accelerate decision-making
Instead of interrupting momentum with repetitive production work, Weave allowed me to stay focused on creating and iterating.
Figma Make → Turning the Concept into an Experience
Once the design system and flows were established, Figma Make helped transform the idea into something interactive.
Using Figma Make, I created a working concept that moved beyond static screens and into a more tangible product experience.
This allowed me to validate interactions, communicate the vision more clearly, and prototype how personalized accessibility could feel in practice.
Access Atlas started as a question:
What if people could understand accessibility before they arrived?
And evolved into a product vision focused on confidence, inclusion, and helping more people experience the world on their own terms.
Built for Config Makeathon ✨
Live Prototype - https://bone-upload-19206385.figma.site
Figma Make - https://www.figma.com/make/xmqLxan90ZlzkArGzT6FTw/Access-Atlas?t=atxpp7BmtS08txUN-1&preview-route=%2Flocation%2Fp1%2Fexperience
Figma File - https://www.figma.com/design/jDsm0EfkC6qJngxqJB3EZm/Config-Makeathon?node-id=27-2&t=nkWof38p08ZuxVa9-1
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The core reframe is smart. Accessibility right now is a binary label, a place either 'is' or 'isn't' accessible. But that's useless if you don't know what features matter for your specific needs. Personalizing the profile so users know what to expect for them specifically is a much more actionable design approach.
Life Compass
AI-Powered Direction for Personal Growth
Website live link: https://delightful-crumble-a984f6.netlify.app/
Overview
Life Compass is an AI-powered personal growth platform designed to help people discover where to focus their attention to create meaningful change in their lives.
In a world filled with productivity tools, self-help content, and endless advice, many people are not suffering from a lack of information—they are suffering from a lack of clarity.
Life Compass helps users identify the one area of their life that deserves attention right now by visualizing life as an interconnected system.
Rather than trying to improve everything at once, users receive personalized guidance toward the highest-leverage opportunity for growth.
The Problem
Millions of people feel stuck despite being ambitious, capable, and motivated.
They often ask themselves:
What should I focus on next?
Why do I feel overwhelmed?
Why am I working hard but not making meaningful progress?
Which area of my life deserves attention right now?
Existing solutions focus on:
Productivity
Goal tracking
Habit building
Time management
However, these tools assume users already know what matters most.
The real challenge often comes earlier:
People lack direction.
Without clarity, even motivated individuals struggle to create meaningful progress.
Life Compass was built to solve this problem.
The Solution
Life Compass acts as a navigation system for life.
Through a guided reflection process, users explore key dimensions of their lives, including:
Career
Relationships
Health
Purpose
Energy
Confidence
Learning
Financial Wellbeing
The platform analyzes these dimensions as an interconnected system and identifies:
Areas of strength
Areas of opportunity
Relationships between life dimensions
The highest-leverage direction for growth
The result is a personalized Life Compass that helps users understand where to focus and why.
Key Features
Guided Reflection Experience
Users begin with a thoughtful assessment designed to feel more like a conversation than a survey.
The experience encourages reflection and self-awareness while collecting insights across multiple life dimensions.
Interactive Life Compass
The Life Compass visualizes the user's life as a living system.
Each life dimension becomes a connected node within a dynamic map.
Users can explore how different aspects of their lives influence one another and gain a deeper understanding of where change can create the greatest impact.
Compass Reveal
The Compass Reveal is the emotional centerpiece of the experience.
Rather than presenting scores or analytics, Life Compass reveals:
Strongest Area
Biggest Opportunity
Next Direction
This transforms reflection into clarity and provides users with a meaningful starting point for growth.
Future Self Simulator
Users can visualize how small, consistent actions may influence their future over time.
The Future Self Simulator helps transform abstract self-improvement into a tangible and motivating experience.
Design Philosophy
Life Compass is inspired by the belief that every life is its own universe.
The visual system combines themes from:
Navigation systems
Astronomy
Connected ecosystems
Personal reflection
The experience was intentionally designed to feel:
Calm
Reflective
Premium
Hopeful
Human
The interface uses cosmic environments, glowing connections, depth, motion, and immersive storytelling to reinforce the idea that every aspect of life is interconnected.
The goal was to create an experience that feels less like software and more like self-discovery.
Figma Workflow
This project was built using Figma's ecosystem of AI-powered tools.
Figma Design
The product journey, information architecture, user flows, and interface design were developed inside Figma.
Multiple iterations were explored to refine onboarding, storytelling, interaction patterns, and visual hierarchy.
Figma Make
Figma Make was used to rapidly transform concepts into functional interfaces.
Using natural language prompts, layouts and interactions were generated, tested, and refined, allowing more time to focus on product strategy, user experience, and storytelling.
Figma MCP + Cursor
Figma MCP was connected with Cursor to bridge the gap between design and implementation.
This workflow enabled design context to remain intact throughout development, accelerating iteration and improving consistency between design and code.
Figma Weave
Figma Weave was used to explore visual concepts, create immersive mockups, and generate creative assets aligned with the Life Compass vision.
These assets helped communicate the product story and establish a cohesive visual identity.
Impact
Life Compass is an exploration of how design and AI can help people make better life decisions.
The project demonstrates how thoughtful user experience, visual storytelling, and AI-assisted workflows can transform complex personal challenges into actionable clarity.
The long-term vision is to create a platform that helps people navigate uncertainty, discover meaningful direction, and build lives with greater intention.
What Makes Life Compass Different
Most personal growth tools ask:
"What should you do more of?"
Life Compass asks:
"What matters most right now?"
That shift—from productivity to clarity—is the foundation of the product.
Because people do not always need more information.
They need direction.
Built for Config Makeathon 2025
Designed using Figma Design, Figma Make, Figma MCP, Cursor, and Figma Weave.
Life Compass explores how AI-powered design workflows can be used to solve meaningful human problems through thoughtful product experiences.
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