Resona

Inspiration

Stress is the most talked-about health issue of our generation, yet it remains completely invisible.

You can't see your nervous system dysregulating. You don't notice it until it's already affected your sleep, your focus, your relationships. We kept asking: what if you could see it?

That question led us to cymatics, the science of how sound and vibration create visible geometric patterns in physical matter. In 1787, Ernst Chladni discovered that drawing a bow across a sand-covered plate produced perfect symmetrical figures at specific frequencies. In 1967, Hans Jenny formalized this into a field and proved that it holds across all physical matter.

The insight clicked: your body emits frequencies, too.

Your heartbeat, breath, and muscle tension are all measurable vibrational signals.

When your nervous system is calm, those signals are coherent.

When you're overwhelmed, they fragment. Cymatics gave us the visual language to make that real.

Challenges

We completed the entire hackathon in 6 hours without WiFi.

Making cymatics understandable was so hard because cymatics is not mainstream. Our biggest design challenge was making it feel intuitive before the user had any context.

How We Built It

We built Resona entirely in Figma Make, prototyping four core surfaces:

The Orb: a generative cymatic visualization that shifts between four element states in real time based on simulated biometric input The Interpreter: a working AI chatbot powered by the Claude API, with a peer-reviewed Science Library built into the UI The Frequency Library: an element-organized audio interface with live cymatic animations The Map: a wellness map with real local venues for you to reset

https://www.figma.com/deck/lhZ5xIV7qpo3xFkVAmtrcW/Resona-Slides?node-id=1-42&t=qRGsdRDGjkEs95Cf-1