Inspiration
My grandmother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's ten years ago. It's been hard for her, but it's been worse for my grandfather, my mother, and other loved ones. Imagine slowly watching your your mother, your wife drift away—lose everything that made them them.
But what if there was a way to connect again, to communicate without the distortion of dementia. What if my grandmother could tell her children that she’s proud of them, or wish my grandfather a happy birthday. Imagine how much that would mean to them.
What it does
“Moment in a Bottle” is a web site for individuals in the early stages of dementia. It allows them to record video messages now, for friends, family and loved ones in the future.
How we built it
We attacked the problem from all angles. We took small objectives, and synthesized them into bigger goal, from a top-down prospective. We used a synergy of agile, functional, imperative, and object-oriented approaches.
Challenges we ran into
The endless pursuit of perfection kept on leading us down the rabbit hole of user interaction and design. Ensuring that our product attained maximal usability across all modern computing platforms took more of our enterprise's valuable time than we expected.
Accomplishments that we are proud of
We are extremely proud of hiding immense complexity of our product from the user by encapsulating it behind an incredibly intuitive and natural UI.
What we learned
We learnt that changing the world is not easy, but if you attack the problem a step at a time, you can move mountains.
What's next for Moment in a Bottle
We are hitting the ground running, evaluating the buisness opportunities that this product opens.
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