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Inspiration

As sisters, we grew up with so much motivation for creativity: painting, music, storytelling, and making things with our hands. As we got older, life began to shift. Hustle culture took over, screens became our default, and passive content consumption became the norm. We watched our creative hobbies slowly fade, not because we lost interest, but because we didn’t have a system to notice, capture, or act on fleeting inspiration. This experience made us realize how easily creativity can slip away, and inspired us to design a tool that helps people reconnect with their own creative spark.

What it does

AHA! is a speculative wellness tool that introduces a new measurable sense: creative interoception, the ability to perceive your internal creative state. The app detects creative signals via dopamine activity, enhances fleeting ideas, and uses an AR scanner to reveal creative potential in everyday objects. Ideas in the app grow visually like a garden: a seed represents a new or fleeting idea, a bud shows an idea that’s being developed or explored, and a bloom marks a finished or fully realized creation. This system helps users track, nurture, and visualize their creativity over time, turning inspiration into a tangible, evolving process.

How we built it

We started with research to understand creativity, consumption habits, and how people experience their own creative impulses. Using these insights, we prototyped core ideas in Figma Make, experimenting with interactions, layouts, and visual metaphors. Once the concepts were solid, we moved the designs into Figma, refining the branding, color palette, and overall visual style to make the experience feel calm, inspiring, and magical.

Challenges we ran into

The ideation phase was challenging because we wanted the app to feel personal while still being relatable to others. Branding was difficult, and we were pushing ourselves creatively to explore new ideas. Talking to different people about how they visualize their own creative state helped us gain perspective. All of these challenges ultimately made the storytelling and motivation behind the project feel worthwhile and natural, helping us get into a true flow state.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud of being able to visualize creativity in a meaningful way and step out of our comfort zones. We learned not only about how others perceive and visualize creativity, but also how to tackle the abstract challenge of detecting creative sense, especially in a culture where consumption habits are so normalized.

What we learned

We learned how to leverage AI in a way that enhances rather than detracts from creativity. This was both of our first times using Figma Make intensively, and through workshops and experimentation, we picked up skills in prompting and using the tool effectively.

What's next for AHA!

We want to explore a more scientific approach to detecting creative signals, such as measuring dopamine levels, to make the concept of creative interoception even more tangible.