Mnemo is a digital memory companion app that uses wearable technology and AI to help people with cognitive disabilities confidently recall daily moments and maintain greater independence.

Problem

I Can't Remember!

Individuals with cognitive impairments often struggle to remember important people, moments, and tasks, limiting their independence and sense of security.

Approach

Seniors with dementia often struggle to recall recent conversations, events, or locations, leading to confusion, anxiety, and social isolation, while caregivers face overwhelming stress trying to ensure their safety and well-being. To address these challenges, Mnemo must provide simple, accessible memory support that makes daily recall effortless and offers caregivers safe, reassuring visibility without compromising the user’s dignity or independence.

Background Research

To better understand our target audience, we researched how seniors who experience memory loss, particularly dementia, experience everyday life. We then synthesized our data into three main points:

1 in 3 seniors with dementia report feeling loneliness related to their memory loss.

Many seniors are not tech-savvy, so apps must be simple, clear, and accessible.

45% of caregivers feel depressed due to constant safety responsibility.

Benchmark Analysis

A benchmark analysis was conducted on the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, Envision Glasses and Google Photos to understand how wearable assistive technologies approach usability, visual design, and AI-driven functionality. The comparison highlights patterns in hands-free interaction, real-time recognition, and accessibility-focused features.

We analyzed the four PACT categories, People, Activity, Context, and Technology to guide the app design, ensuring it is accessible, safe, and user-friendly for different levels of tech experience.

Users include seniors experiencing memory loss and caregivers who support their safety and wellbeing. They have varying levels of tech comfort and require strong accessibility features, while navigating an emotional tension between maintaining independence and ensuring reassurance for caregivers.

Users need to capture, organize, and recall daily memories with minimal effort, often relying on passive or automated interactions. Activities include reviewing past events, searching for specific moments, and sharing information with caregivers, all designed to reduce cognitive load and reliance on memory.

The product is used across home, public, and remote care environments, where users may be distracted, mobile, or in vulnerable situations. This requires the system to function reliably offline, adapt to real-world unpredictability, and maintain privacy in both personal and shared settings.

A combination of wearable devices and an AI-powered mobile app enables passive memory capture, organization, and easy recall. The system must be secure, accessible, and reliable, supporting features like voice interaction, cloud backup, and controlled sharing to build trust and reduce user effort.

People

Activity

Context

Technology

P.A.C.T. Analysis

Through our research, we created a system map of the flow between the key features we wanted to include in our application, such as a dynamic memory search function and dashboard connecting to a wearable technology.

System Map

Based on our research of our user groups, we created personas to represent those struggling with memory loss and their caregivers. Each persona tackles different pain points that we kept in mind when creating our design solution.

User Personas

With the system map and personas in mind, wireframes were developed to visualize the user’s journey.

Wireframes

Branding

Mnemo values being accessible, memorable and easy to use. With this image in mind, a visual identity was developed.

Design

Mnemo helps users regain their personal autonomy and independence by making their memories easily accessible. The augmented glasses with accompanying mobile application allows users to search up memories by date, subject or keywords. These memories can also be shared and accessed by caregivers, notifying them of urgent medical matters.

Dashboard

Simple modular dashboard that highlights key reminders for the user, as well as insights on their memories based on the AI’s categorization of the recordings from the accompanying Mnemo glasses.

Keeping users on track

Users can recall memories that are hazy by searching using the indicators they remember, such as location, people, objects or date.

Re-remember your day

Easily share your memories with the click of a button! Share important information about your health, safety and daily interactions with a caregiver or loved one.

Keep people in the loop

With an accompanying apple watch app, caregivers will be notified for key information Mnemo glasses detect. Caregivers will also receive notifications when the user chooses to share a memory with them.

Apple Watch

Caregiver connection

With a simplistic interface as to not overwhelm the user, Mnemo not only records all your memories, but also highlights important information to remind the user of where they are and who they are with.

Mnemo Glasses

Saving memories

Interactive Prototype

Working on Mnemo strengthened my skills in collaboration, accessibility-focused design, and AI-driven problem-solving. Collaborating closely with my team was essential for truly understanding our users and building a system that reflected their needs. Since our primary users were seniors navigating dementia and memory loss, accessibility naturally became a core part of every UI decision.

This project also gave us the opportunity to explore how AI could genuinely support this community in a space that is still not widely explored. It broadened both our product vision and my own approach to thoughtful, user-centered design.

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