RDU · Durham
Snapshots
Designed and built a collaborative time capsule that uses a 24-hour delay to make reliving small moments feel intentional and shared.
- Role
- Designer + Builder
- Timeline
- FEB 2026 – APR 2026
- Technical Dialect
- Figma · React Native
Problem
Traditional social media overlooks the small, spontaneous moments that are actually worth remembering — optimizing instead for highlight reels and immediate validation.
Solution
Snapshots is a collaborative time capsule that introduces a 24-hour delay between capture and reveal, drawing on user research in memory and nostalgia so reliving moments feels emotional, intentional, and collective.
§ Shipped
What I built
The Process
Design architecture
Optional deep dive — how the problem became the shipped product.
Research into memory + nostalgia
Interviewed users about which photos they actually return to and what makes a moment worth keeping versus forgotten.
24-hour delay as a design constraint
Modeled a delivery cadence where moments arrive a day later, so the app sits between camera roll and social feed without competing with either.
Shared capsules, shared perspectives
Designed a capsule object where everyone present sees the same moment from multiple angles — one shared artifact instead of parallel solo feeds.