TRACE: Walk With Spirit（Figbuild 2026)
Overview
Trace is a speculative app that visualizes of your emotional change and your sensory experience while walking. It is designed in 4 days.
Duration
03.06-03.09.2026(4 days design-a-thon)Team
Chang Liu (Product Design, Branding)Chen Chen Hsieh(Storytelling）
Role
Product DesignerTools
Figma, After EffectsProblem
The challenge prompt for FigBuild 2026 is:
Identify something intangible, invisible, or previously unmeasurable about the human sensory experience and design a speculative tool to track and influence it. This tool should be designed to support a wellness goal or behavioral change for an individual or a group.
Introduction
We were inspired by the idea that a path can feel open, calm, mysterious, or vibrant depending on the environment and our body’s response. Trace was created to capture these subtle “path experiences” and help people better understand how their surroundings influence their emotions and wellbeing while walking.
My Roles:
︎Ideating & defining product feature & user flow
︎Designing high-fidelity prototypes
︎Creating motion graphics for user flow presentation
Challenge
Envisioning a future where emerging technology is used to visualize our walking experience besides quantitative metrics.
Path has moods. What mood would you like today?
Generate emotional heat map & recommend the route that would maximize your experience.
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Walk with spirit.
Walk with spirit.
View you real-time emotion & bio-data while walking, enjoying a customized journey that care about how you feel.
Understand your mood with your context
AI-powered report that provides personal analysis of your experience.
Knowing your special one by walking.
Invite someone to walk with you and share data.
Leave traces, like those creatures.
Change you avatar by using different animal friends. Switch your footprint and manage your walking memories smoothly.
