Team
6 March 2026 - 9 March 2026
My Role
Timeframe
Research & concept definition,
Contributed to visual design
3 Designers: Navneet Vaid, Harshit
Beniwal, Johnathan Jiang
Figma, Figma Make
Tools
THE INSIGHT
It started with three objects.
It started with three objects.
Before any interface, the three of us each brought an object we couldn't stop thinking about — and realized we'd all felt the same thing: time that didn't move the way it actually passed.
Before any interface, the three of us each brought an object we couldn't stop thinking about — and realized we'd all felt the same thing: time that didn't move the way it
actually passed.
Before any interface, the three of us each brought an object we couldn't stop thinking about — and realized we'd all felt the same thing: time that didn't move the way it
actually passed.
A replacement for one lost — a quiet measure of how long it's been.
Johnathan's plush
A replacement for one lost — a quiet measure of how long it's been.
A replacement for one lost — a quiet measure of how long it's been.
Johnathan's plush
Used mindlessly every day; secretly marks nearly three years.
Used mindlessly every day; secretly marks nearly three years.
Used mindlessly every day; secretly marks nearly three years.
Nav's CCA ID card
Nav's CCA ID card
A graduation gift he returns to whenever life overwhelms.
A graduation gift he returns to whenever life overwhelms.
Harshit's survival manual
A graduation gift he returns to whenever life overwhelms.
Harshit's survival manual
"Looking back, we remember emotions more clearly than events. Stress, loneliness, or uncertainty can compress months of life into something that feels like nothing."
"Looking back, we remember emotions more clearly than events. Stress, loneliness, or uncertainty can compress months of life into something that feels like nothing."
"Looking back, we remember emotions more clearly than events. Stress, loneliness, or uncertainty can compress months of life into something that feels like nothing."
PROCESS
The Figbuild prompt asked us to design for an intangible sense. My research drove the narrowing: I mapped the space of human senses, then grounded the team in chronoception — what it is, and what we were actually designing for.
From there, we defined the product before we designed it.
The Figbuild prompt asked us to design for an intangible sense. My research drove the narrowing: I mapped the space of human senses, then grounded the team in chronoception — what it is, and what we were actually designing for.
From there, we defined the product before we designed it.
Young adults 18–30 who feel time moving too fast.
Young adults 18–30 who feel time moving too fast.
Notice when the blur hides a long-running routine — then choose.
Notice when the blur hides a long-running routine — then choose.
Objects as time markers; dates from receipts, orders, subscriptions.
Objects as time markers; dates from receipts, orders, subscriptions.
Privacy & consent designed in — keeping reflection from becoming surveillance.
Privacy & consent designed in — keeping reflection from becoming surveillance.
WHAT WE BUILT
Anchor turns objects into anchors. Three features let you place them, question them, and return to them.
Anchor turns objects into anchors. Three features let you place them, question them, and return to them.
Anchor turns objects into anchors. Three features let you place them, question them,
and return to them.
PROTOTYPE
The core loop, prototyped over the four days — place an object, ask about it, revisit it.
The core loop, prototyped over the four days — place an object, ask about it, revisit it.
REFLECTION
Anchor is a concept, built in four days under a prompt we didn't choose — not a shipped product. If I carried it forward, I'd validate the core assumption with real users, pressure-test the privacy model behind passive collection, and prototype the Filters conversation, since it's the most novel piece and the most likely to break.
What I'd keep is the restraint — a tool that asks you to notice, instead of one more thing competing for your attention.
Anchor is a concept, built in four days under a prompt we didn't choose — not a shipped product. If I carried it forward, I'd validate the core assumption with real users, pressure-test the privacy model behind passive collection, and prototype the Filters conversation, since it's the most novel piece and the most likely to break.
What I'd keep is the restraint — a tool that asks you to notice, instead of one more thing competing for your attention.
