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WearSense AI —
sensors that say something.

Concept and product UX for an AI-driven wearable. Sensor data interpreted into glanceable, actionable insight — designed for the wrist and the dashboard at once, with the kind of restraint a body-worn product demands.

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The Problem

Wearables collect everything. Most of it is noise.

Modern wearables can measure heart rate, motion, oxygen, skin temperature, and a dozen other signals in real time. The user-facing problem isn't capture — it's curation. Most apps either bury the signal in dashboards no one reads, or oversimplify into vague green-yellow-red badges that mean nothing on a tough day.

WearSense AI was an exercise in finding the middle: AI-interpreted insight that earns its place on the wrist, with optional depth on the phone for the moments a user actually wants to dig in.

Approach

One screen at a time, literally.

The on-body surface is the size of a postage stamp. Every screen had to earn its pixels. The design system started from a strict rule: never more than one decision per screen, and never more than three glanceable signals at a time.

  • Glance, then go. Wrist surfaces only show what's actionable in the next ten minutes — a hydration nudge, a stretch break, a recovery alert. Everything else lives on the phone.
  • AI as narrator. The dashboard summarises the day in natural language ("you crashed at 3pm — long lunch and low water") instead of throwing four time-series at the user.
  • Tunable insight. Users can tell the model which alerts matter — sleep, recovery, focus, mood — and the wrist surface adapts. No two devices look alike after a week.
  • Quiet by default. Haptics are rationed. The product respects that the user isn't asking for a notification firehose strapped to their body.
The hard parts

Trust that's earned, not claimed.

Health-adjacent products have a higher bar than most. Every AI claim has to be hedged honestly without becoming useless. WearSense's voice avoids both extremes — it never says "you slept badly" but it also never hides behind "based on multiple factors." Confidence is shown plainly, alongside the underlying signals when the user wants them.

"The wearable that earns its place on your wrist is the one that knows when not to speak."
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Surfaces — wrist + companion app, designed together
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Max glanceable signals per wrist screen
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Decision per screen — discipline, not minimalism
E2E
UX from concept through to high-fidelity
Outcome

A wearable that respects the wearer.

WearSense became a useful internal benchmark for what restraint looks like in AI-driven health UX. The decision-per-screen rule, the rationed haptics, and the natural-language daily summary have all carried into other AI-adjacent product work.

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