MP

Read My Mind
2025
Solo Project
Tools: Illustrator, Photoshop, Physical Fabrication
What do you wish people knew about you? What do you wish people would do without you having to ask?
An interactive design where viewers explore the inner beliefs of strangers and react with stickers to indicate which ideas resonate and which inspire understanding. Through this exhibit, an emergent data visualization reveals how the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) community engaged with the concepts more broadly.











In order to make my interaction intuitive for exhibit viewers, I used two large gears to indicate that my design was meant to be touched. 

Quotes from different interviews I conducted, ranging from wheelchair users to college students, were positioned around the edges of the lower circle, with 24 total perspectives highlighted. When spun, the top circle gave people the option to place stickers to express their reactions to the perspectives they were reading: red stickers to express learning a new point of view, blue to express resonance. 







This project helped me flex my interaction design muscles, and learn how to use physical fabrication tools such as the laser cutter and Cricut in order to create the gears and interactive sticker designs. 

Read more about my process here!