Client
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Team members
Independent Project
Year
2025
Figma, Rhino, Keyshot
DEMO VIDEO
Concept expanded by the work done by Dementia Singapore
Early research provided by Brief. as part of our module's curriculum
The Minda Mobile App supports elderly users, including those living with dementia, through large text, soft colours, clear icons, and familiar visuals. As part of a connected ecosystem, it transforms daily routines into meaningful journeys, encouraging memory recall, physical activity, social connection, and independence.
The Homepage is designed to be clear and welcoming, offering a personalised greeting. It provides elderly users with a familiar and reassuring starting point, helping them navigate their day with greater confidence, reduced cognitive strain, and a stronger sense of personal independence.
The Caregiver Card on Minda shows key details at a glance and prompts for important caregiver calls, offering reassurance to elderly users and quick access to help if needed.
The Recipes Page presents meal ideas and ingredient lists in a clear, visual format, helping elderly users plan meals easily while supporting cognitive engagement through familiar routines.
The Journey Page lets elderly users choose their destination easily, with built-in murals on the navigation path to provide familiar visual cues and support wayfinding.
Minda draws inspiration from dementia-friendly wayfinding initiatives such as Finding My Way Home (Dementia Singapore).
It transforms simple icons into interactive markers, using AR and XR to bring them to life. This approach helps create recognition patterns, keep users mentally engaged, and navigate their daily routes with greater confidence and emotional connection.
Minda’s Play feature introduces gentle gamification through gesture-based interactions.
Using fun, familiar interactions like chopping, mixing and painting, Play stimulates cognitive engagement while maintaining simplicity and accessibility for elderly users.
Minda’s Connect feature links nearby murals with short stories, encouraging exploration, memory prompts, and social engagement.
These bite-sized narratives help users stay mentally active while feeling connected to the world around them.
Minda’s Reminisce feature, like animated memories and music visualisers, turns murals into portals that unlock familiar memories.
Using culturally relevant icons and music, Reminisce supports emotional grounding and strengthens recall by anchoring memory cues visually—helping elderly users stay engaged while keeping their minds actively stimulated.
Minda’s Smart Walker integrates voice prompts, navigation, and sensorial feedback to guide and support elderly users. Informed by Brief's DIY PMD research, it builds on the familiarity of traditional walkers with a smart system that learns the user’s walking patterns, offering contextual, cognitive, and emotional support.
The Smart Walker reduces cognitive strain, promotes independence, and makes daily walks more meaningful.
The Smart Walker provides voice prompts and mural cues to guide elderly users, offering relatable navigation without tracking exact locations.
By using recognisable murals as wayfinding anchors, users can navigate safely and with confidence.
With multiple language options, the walker also acts as gentle companionship, offering comfort along the journey.
The Smart Walker combines gentle haptics, familiar sounds, simple visuals, and light interactive tasks to create meaningful moments throughout the day.
These micro-interactions, such as identifying objects, interacting with murals, or recalling memories, keep users mentally and physically engaged and turn daily walks into something they can look forward to.