Enhancing memories with photos and music
- Role
- Product Designer (Solo)
- Timeline
- Nov 2026 (1 Week)
- Result
- First Place
Overview
How might we capture, enhance, or transform instances in one's life into a moment?
The habit of constantly documenting our lives and living with the mindset that “photo or it didn’t happen” buries our photos faster than we can revisit them. How do we remember the instances that truly matter and the feelings attached to them?
To tackle this challenge, I designed Frames in one week for Queen’s UX Designathon, where the project won 2nd Place!
Solution Highlight
Enriching memories with cues
Frames is a mobile app where users connect songs to photos to enrich memories. It uses music as a cue to revive past emotions and links to reveal how these moments connect over time.
Adding a New Entry
To create a new entry, users pair a photo with a song, add a lyric snippet from a part that fits the moment, and tag it for additional context.
Linking Moments
In Frames, moments are not stored alone. Rather than only showing single entries, Frames surfaces how moments connect to each other through links to reveal hidden connections or forgotten moments.
Results & Reflections
I won 2nd Place!
As one of my first designathons, it was rewarding to see the entire process come together: from the initial idea and research, to iterating on multiple concepts, to a polished final output with a focus on visual craft.
The one-week format let me slow down from the usual designathon pace and really think through why I was making each decision. Instead of defaulting to the first thing that came to mind.
Working solo also meant that I could move at my own pace and own the process end to end. It pushed me to understand each part of the design process more deeply, how they connect, and how it is far from a linear process.