Life Update — AI focus app

Personal focus app — your day scored against your 5-year plan. I designed the product and the AI, then shipped the MVP.

Product designAI / LLM behavior0→1 MVP

PROJECT_FILE // 03

DEMO // PICTURE_IN_PICTURE

What I owned.

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→Product + interaction design for AI-scored daily focus
→Designed the AI behavior: semantic distance from each entry to a long-term plan
→Shipped a working MVP to validate the concept end-to-end

DOC // NARRATIVE

Context: A personal product: a focus app that scores what you write each day against where you say you want to be in five years.
Problem: Most journaling apps either bury you in features or never tell you whether today actually moved you toward what matters.
Approach: I designed the product around one idea — three priorities a day — and designed the AI behavior: each entry is read in plain language and placed by semantic distance from a long-term plan.
Ship: A working MVP: daily entry, AI-scored focus, and a simple read on whether the week pointed at the plan.
Outcome: Shipped and used daily. It proved the core idea — that an AI read of a short daily entry can keep attention on a long-term plan.
Differently: I'd surface the AI's reasoning in the UI, not hide it — people trust a focus score more when they can see why.
Craft floor: One decision per day, not a dashboard. The AI explains in plain language. Designed so the product, not the model, is what you feel.