Find
Make unfamiliar knowledge easier to approach.
Personal concept · 2 months · UX/UI & conversation design
Herbal knowledge,
in the moment.
A voice-first wearable concept that pairs timely guidance on smart glasses with a phone companion for images, ingredients, and detail.
Speculative concept · Educational guidance only · Not medically validated
Listening
- Project
- Future wearable concept
- My role
- End-to-end designer
- Ownership
- Personas · journey · conversation · UI
- Prototype
- Storyboards · two scenario films
The opportunity
The request for tea is only one moment in a longer experience.
Information can become fragmented between learning what an ingredient is, deciding whether it feels relevant, finding it, preparing it, and remembering what to do next. I used that broader journey to frame the concept and its boundaries.
How might a future wearable make herbal-tea knowledge easier to understand while preserving context, care, and user control?
Consider
Help someone judge what feels relevant without hiding uncertainty.
Source
Connect recognition with a practical way to find ingredients.
Prepare
Keep instructions available while both hands are busy.
Remember
Carry the routine into the rest of the day.
Learn
Leave the person with knowledge they can use again.
Designed personas
Two ways into trust.
These are scenario models created to explore different needs. They are not presented as research-validated personas.
A clear need, limited time.
Tai already has a routine. The experience needs to move from a contextual request to sourcing, hands-free preparation, and a thoughtful check-in.
Curiosity before confidence.
Ke first needs to recognize what they are seeing, understand it in plain language, and learn how to prepare it without being overwhelmed.
Bot persona and visual language
Warm, wise, and clear about what the interface is doing.
Aunty Sip was written as a caring guide, not an authority that always has the answer. Its visual states make an otherwise invisible voice interaction legible while keeping the view quiet.
Standby
A quiet tea swirl shows that Aunty Sip is available.
Listening
A breathing water ring makes the microphone state clear.
Speaking
Tea leaves move outward while the assistant responds.
Two scenario stories
The same assistant behaves differently when the starting point changes.
Each scenario connects the dialogue, timing, device handoff, and preparation routine. The videos are user-controlled.
Tai · Returning user
Guidance across a full routine.
A request becomes a multi-turn conversation, an ingredient handoff, hands-free preparation, and a next-day feedback moment.
AskClarifySourcePrepareFollow up
Open Tai’s full scenario flow
Ke · Newcomer
Recognition that becomes learning.
Curiosity in context leads to recognition, a richer phone explanation, and voice-guided preparation.
NoticeRecognizeLearnPrepare
Open Ke’s full scenario flow
Cross-device strategy
Put the right amount of information in the right place.
The glasses keep attention in the world. The phone becomes a deliberate handoff for images, ingredients, sourcing, and longer explanations.
Immediate and low-attention.
Voice, recognition, short prompts, timers, and step cues appear at the moment of action.
Detailed and reviewable.
Images, ingredient information, and saved content move to a surface better suited to focused reading.
Conversation architecture
Design the repair before the happy path.
Wearable conversation cannot depend on perfect recognition or on a person following one script. Clarification and recovery are part of the experience, not edge cases.
Ask before assuming
When information is unavailable, Aunty Sip asks a short, explicit question instead of pretending the system already knows.
Keep uncertainty visible
If recognition fails, the conversation moves to observable details such as color, shape, and distinctive features.
Make the next step recoverable
If ingredients are missing, the experience offers a sourcing path rather than forcing the original routine.
Use the right surface
When the explanation needs an image or more detail, the glasses hand the moment to the phone.
View the full conversation design artifact
Prototype in context
The films made timing and attention visible.
I wrote, designed, edited, and produced both scenario films to make the proposed experience discussable before working hardware existed.
Prototype credit note: the videos include selected footage from the Bilibili video “广东人为啥自讨苦吃 (Why do Cantonese Seek Bitterness?)”; a delivery icon from Iconfont; and journey illustrations created with MidJourney. Concept direction, conversation design, interface, storyboards, editing, and video production are Yazmin Wang’s work.
Reflection and limits
This remains a conversation concept.
Aunty Sip was not clinically validated, did not diagnose or treat conditions, and did not test live health data or recognition accuracy.
Cross-device product thinking, conversation architecture, scenario design, visual states, interface design, and video prototyping within one system.
The original doctor-like persona risks over-trust. A future version should show uncertainty clearly, separate education from medical advice, and provide an obvious safety escalation path.
Run Wizard-of-Oz sessions, test comprehension and recovery, define consent and privacy, and explore recognition confidence, cultural accuracy, and hardware feasibility.