Role
Product Design — Human interface design, Interaction design, Research, Product strategy, Art direction
Team
Solo project
Timeline
2 months, Apr - May ‘25
Overview
I developed Eden as an academic exploration into personal knowledge and sensemaking. Through research, conceptual modeling, and interface design, the project investigates how ideas become siloed across platforms and why existing tools fail to support action.
Eden reframes saving as an interpretive process, using context, time, and patterns of behavior to organize ideas around intent and future use.
^ Ideas graveyard
Connect related ideas across apps
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Eden showcases the capabilities and limitations of our current app ecosystem. ‘Idea silos’ is a standout phrase, and the way you propose breaking them made us think deeply”
Staff Product Designer, Meta
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This is Steve Jobs–level thinking. The moment you talked about screenshots with links, it instantly clicked—I knew I needed this.”
Principal PD, Zoc Doc
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In a world obsessed with productivity, this tackles a deeper problem: how we organize ideas. It clearly separates thinking from doing—and wraps it in a visual language that feels alive, colorful, and inspiring.”
Product Manager, Amazon Music
Eden is grounded in Tiago Forte’s second-brain methodology.
The digital second brain 🧠 should capture without friction, organize by intent, and resurface ideas when they’re cognitively relevant.
Iterations
1
High capture friction limited adoption, driven by excessive clicks (6/6 users) and missing visual triggers (4/6 users)
“Oh, in this version I can just save something and continue — I usually make a mental note to use that piece somewhere.”
V1 of idea capture
2
Users didn’t need a chatbot or long answers — Eden should predict intent and surface relevant artifacts without requiring articulation.
Eden shifted from reactive chat to predictive AI — surfacing small, actionable suggestion pills, and feedback loops to continuously improve intent prediction.
Introspection
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2
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Articulation is a barrier
Create a to-do list
Draft email to
Book this flight
Eden is built on the belief that articulation is a barrier. People struggle to prompt their way into clarity; long conversations and explicit commands often get in the way of momentum.
Instead of demanding explanation, Eden searches on the user’s behalf—using context, behavior, and systems-level understanding to anticipate motive and suggest meaningful next steps. The intelligence stays in the background; the experience stays human.
