PRODUCT
Public product is usableFAMILY CARE · CONSENT · TWO-SIDED EXPERIENCE
FamilyCare
I wanted care in long-distance families to be more than “Have you eaten?” FamilyCare puts care into the small things a parent can comfortably do each day.
Experience FamilyCare
PROJECT AT A GLANCE
Care can still live in everyday moments, even when you are not nearby.
This product began with my own long-distance life with my father. You want to ask more, but not turn every call into a repeated check-in; a parent may not want to explain every detail either. I made care a real voice note, a photo, a weather cue or a meal prompt — not a series of tasks to complete.
- MY ROLE
- Product Builder / Experience & Safety Design
- STAGE
- Working product; two-sided validation next
- FOCUS
- FAMILY CARE · CONSENT
PROJECT VIDEOS
Watch the FamilyCare experience.
A demonstration of everyday connection, care signals and safety designed around explicit permission.
PLAY WITH SOUND · PRODUCT MATERIALPRODUCT DEMONSTRATION
Watch the FamilyCare experience.
A demonstration of everyday connection, care signals and safety designed around explicit permission.THE DESIGN CHALLENGE
Help parents feel remembered, without making them feel managed.
What I owned
- Reframed one family relationship through parent and adult-child perspectives
- Made the parent home screen about one thing worth doing now, not a stack of alerts
- Designed the choice to accept, replace or skip a suggestion
- Used a child’s real photo and voice rather than letting AI impersonate family
- Turned daily records into a measured family summary, with parent-initiated sharing and location boundaries
KEY PRODUCT DECISIONS
The thinking behind the product.
02 / 01
Fewer reminders. One well-timed thing.
The parent does not need a long to-do list. The experience offers one small, manageable action tied to weather, meals or routine, and explains why it matters now.
- One relevant action card on the home screen
- Photo, voice and everyday-context interaction
- No streak or completion-rate measure of care
BEHIND THE SCREEN
Care does not need to watch all the time to be there.
Everyday connection, care signals and safety capabilities are deliberately separate. Parents share what they choose; children receive enough context to understand how to care.
- 01Parent records daily life by choice
- 02Parent selects what to share
- 03Family receives measured signals
- 04Weekly context is brought together
- 05Care continues through conversation
EVIDENCE & CURRENT STATUS
What exists today — and what still needs to be tested.
EXPERIENCE
Parent and adult-child views designedBOUNDARY
Location sharing is parent-initiatedNEXT VALIDATION
Test whether parents understand, trust and want to use the controls, then whether adult children find the weekly summary useful without feeling that it monitors their parents.LIVE PRODUCT