Wander

Wander is a mobile app that rethinks the walk, designed around the idea of mental reset in everyday moments. It’s built for students and working professionals who use walking as a way to step away for a bit, not just get from one place to another. It fits into in-between moments, after a class, before a meeting, late at night, or whenever you just need a break.

The app has two modes. A loop takes a time limit and creates a walk that brings you back to where you started. A route takes a destination but changes how you get there, offering options like scenic, quiet, or safe instead of just the fastest path. Each walk includes a simple prompt to hold while walking. Once the walk starts, the app steps back. A lock screen widget shows only what’s needed, so the phone stays in your pocket.

Wander came from noticing that walking is something people already use to reset, but none of the tools around it are built for that. Everything is either about getting somewhere faster or tracking something. Nothing really focuses on the walk itself.

Through the project, we realised that design isnt always about creating something new, but about reframing something that already exists. Walking already works, we just needed to not overcomplicate it.

A big part of this project was how we built it. Instead of stopping at Figma, we pushed ourselves to actually ship something. Using Vercel and Claude, we turned our wireframes into a working MVP. That changed how we made decisions, because things had to actually work, not just look good on a screen. Using Claude for vibecoding was also different. It forced us to explain our designs through words, not just visuals. That made us way more aware of spacing, placement, and structure, things we usually do more intuitively in Figma.

One of the biggest challenges was keeping up with our goal of pushing a working prototype, We could have always stepped back to our comfort zone of designing in Figma, but making sure to keeping understanding and working with Claude to get our desired outcome was very helpfull.

Built With

• claude
• figma
• vercel