AI Exploration
Turning personal wishes into shared courage
Industry
AI, emerging tech
Duration
3 days
Role
Lead UX/UI designer
Skills
Prompt engineering, visual/interaction design
Context
Digital spaces for emotional expression tend to be too public (e.g., social media) or too private (e.g., journaling apps).
Wish Wall was designed to live in that middle space. The goal was to increase vulnerability by making expression feel low-stakes, beautiful, and quietly witnessed.
The concept draws from the Japanese tradition of Tanabata, where people write wishes on strips of paper and tie them to bamboo trees. The ritual works because it's physical, communal, and anonymous all at once. The idea is that you leave something real in a shared space, and witness that others have too. Wish Wall is an attempt to recreate that feeling online.
As for the visual design, a night sky felt like the right place to hold people's wishes. It's vast enough to hold anything, dark enough to feel safe.
View the website at https://wishwall-stars.vercel.app/
Tools
This project was vibecoded with the help of these AI tools:
Figma Design used to sketch the initial layout and visual direction of the wall and editor
Google Stitch used to generate and refine the illustrated assets and visual elements
Claude Code used to scaffold the React components, implement the drag-and-drop sticker system, wire up the shared storage layer, and iterate on animations and interactions
Supabase used to power the backend of the public wall
Github & Vercel used to deploy and host Wish Wall