Neto-Compass

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Inspiration

When creating this project, I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out different human senses that could be enhanced when I came across a reddit post. The reddit post was about discovering senses humans don't have, which was magnetoreception. I played around with this concept, came up with other concepts and then circled back to it.

What it does

Neto-Compass is an app that pairs with a set of lenses to showcase the potential for humans to explore a new sense, magnetoreception.

How we built it

We built our project strictly via Figma. We used its design features to prototype as well as the Figma make AI tool to prompt different interface options.

Challenges we ran into

It was our first time working with the AI tool incorporated in Figma make, and it made several iterations to the website that we did not like. There were also times when it couldn't follow simple instructions that we asked of it. Another challenge we faced was idea generation. We were struggling to think outside the box for things that don't already exist, but we ended up circling back to my initial idea. It was hard to think of what sensory tool would pair well with a digital app/interface. There were a lot of things to consider like

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud of the overall concept. The idea of humans having magnetoreception is very futuristic and would be a very cool sense to obtain. We are also proud of how much progress we were able to make with just the two of us. It meant there was more work to be split up which was challenging, but very rewarding.

What we learned

We learned that artificial intelligence can actually be a key part of UX/UI design, and even coding. It worked to aide and speed up the process of the project when wireframing and making prototypes.