Winks
A toolkit to master your superpower — capturing, organizing, and revisiting memory.
FigBuild Competition
4 Days
UXUI Designer
Figma
FigBuild School Prize Winner
BACKGROUND
The FigBuild Competition challenged us to imagine waking up with a superpower that helps us tackle a major personal challenge. To harness its full potential and prevent it from becoming overwhelming or chaotic, we were asked to design a toolkit to support it.
CHALLENGES
Identify the Problem
Describe a personal pain point, such as something frustrating, inefficient, or challenging in daily life.
Imagine the Superpower
Invent a superpower that would solve this problem.
Design the Toolkit
Design a toolkit to help manage and master the superpower effectively.
Explore the Edge Cases
Consider potential edge cases and how the toolkit could help navigate them.
PROBLEM
Did you know? The average person processes over 6,000 thoughts per day. No wonder so many details slip away. We often forget the skills we’ve learned, the warm moments we’ve experienced, and the creative ideas we once had.
SUPERPOWER
What if you had a superpower that lets you revisit memories when you've forgotten them in the moment you need them most?
TOOLKIT
Winks is a toolkit designed to help you master your superpower — the ability to capture, organize, and revisit memories. By supporting this superpower, Winks helps you recall important moments you've forgotten when you need them most, while also freeing your mind for higher-order thinking and the present moment.
Now, just put on Winks’ power lenses and give three quick winks to activate.
USER FLOW
Before we dive in, here are the three core features of how Winks works for you:
Revisit Memories, View Reflections, and Tracker.
HIGH FIDELITY
Use the Indexing and Memory Disk to find the memory you want to revisit.
Now, you can walk through the chosen memory, pausing, rewinding, or fast-forwarding at your own pace. You can also step away at any time.
After revisiting a memory, Winks invites you to share your reflections guided by a few gentle prompts. These reflections form your growth timeline: a personal archive of insight, not just experience.
Winks lets you revisit your past reflections for moments when you need a reminder, insight, or simply a look at how far you’ve come.
The Efficiency Panel tracks measurable outcomes like improvements in skills and cognitive capacity, helping you recognize how your superpower shapes your personal growth. By making this progress visible, Winks naturally motivates intentional revisits and prevents passive overuse, leading to healthier and more mindful use of this ability.
The Memory Panel visualizes the percentage of memories in three categories based on revisit frequency. “Fresh Memories” is newly captured. “Memories Revisited” has been accessed once. “Reflection Memories” is revisited twice, which is the maximum allowed before it becomes inaccessible. This limitation helps prevent emotional dependency and encourages growth by guiding you forward, rather than keeping you stuck in the past.
The Revisit Log organizes memories by how often they've been revisited. "Cooldown" marks memories you've accessed once, with a waiting period before you can return. This encourages reflection before diving back in. "Locked" memories are those visited twice and now inaccessible, but you can still revisit the reflections from those moments to continue learning and growing.
The Tokens Panel shows how many Memory Tokens you’ve used and how to earn more. Since revisiting memories requires Tokens and they’re limited, this encourages mindful use of your superpower and helps prevent overdependence. You’ll receive new Tokens each year on your birthday, with chances to earn bonus Tokens through meaningful tasks.
EDGE CASES
Even superpowers come with risks. What if you dive in too often, or linger too long in emotional memories? Remember the cooldowns and limits we mentioned earlier? Winks uses them, along with other safeguards, to protect you and gently guide you toward healthier, more mindful use.
END
Now, our journey gently comes to an end.
Close your eyes for 3 seconds, and let Winks slip into rest.
Use your superpower wisely with Winks. May your memories find you when you need them most.
PROTOTYPE
Click here to explore the prototype.
KEY TAKEAWAY
This was my first time joining a Designathon, and my first time facing a challenge to design for something that lived only in imagination — a superpower. For four days, ideas sparked like fireflies, and time rushed past in a blur of pressure and bursts of joy. I felt both challenged and alive, each step pulling me deeper into the story we were creating. When it ended, the journey left its mark: our team emerged as the top winner of the FigBuild School Prize at Parsons.
This project explores the potential of human–AI collaboration by integrating insights derived through artificial intelligence. AI tools were used to support research, refine expression, and enhance clarity, always guided by human intention. The outcomes are grounded in speculative design and reflect a balance where AI assists creativity rather than replaces human insight.