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Designing for Emotion: The EchoLife Interface

How we created a voice-first journaling experience that captures and visualizes human emotions.

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12/5/2024
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EchoLife represents our most ambitious design challenge yet: creating an interface that responds to human emotion in real-time.

The core insight behind EchoLife is that traditional text-based journaling often fails to capture the nuance of human experience. Voice carries emotion in ways that written words cannot—the pause before a difficult admission, the excitement in sharing good news, the tremor of uncertainty.

Our wave-based interface visualizes these emotional patterns, creating a living map of your inner world. Each entry becomes part of a larger emotional landscape, searchable not just by keyword but by feeling.

The technical implementation required careful balance between responsiveness and privacy. All voice processing happens locally on the device, ensuring your most personal thoughts remain truly private.

The result is a journaling experience that feels less like data entry and more like having a conversation with your future self.

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We're an indie studio crafting innovative software that combines technical excellence with poetic design. Based in France, we believe software should be brave, beautiful, and transformative.

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