UCI Design-a-thon 2026 · Lost & Found
Constellation helps people recover forgotten ideas, moments, and relationships from scattered digital fragments before they disappear into the background noise of daily life.
Capture fragments
Screenshots, voice thoughts, links, reminders, and half-finished notes.
Restore context
Cluster scattered saves into themes that feel emotionally legible.
Find what matters
Resurface the right fragment at a moment when it can still matter.
Reminder to text Maya back
Saved after a conversation that felt important.
Voice note: startup idea
A thought recorded before it could disappear.
Civic internship link
A saved direction that still feels like meaning.
Quote from a hard week
A signal you left for yourself when things felt loud.
Found again
Constellation
Scattered fragments become a pattern you can act on.
What gets lost
A saved fragment becomes effectively lost when the reason for saving it vanishes. That is why storage tools alone are not enough. The human problem is contextual amnesia.
Constellation treats screenshots, notes, links, voice snippets, and unfinished plans as drifting fragments of a larger personal story. The goal is to rebuild that story before the fragment becomes meaningless.
Unfinished Futures
Fragments that keep pointing toward work with more meaning.
3 linked fragments
People To Return To
Relationship fragments that mattered quietly, then drifted.
2 linked fragments
Small Life Orbits
Fragments about ordinary rituals that make life feel inhabited again.
2 linked fragments
Quiet Signals
Fragments that hint at burnout, longing, and the need to reassemble meaning.
3 linked fragments
How it works
Capture a note, screenshot, link, voice thought, memory prompt, or person-based reminder with almost no friction.
How it works
AI grouping turns isolated saves into emotionally readable constellations like Unfinished Futures or People To Return To.
How it works
The rediscovery feed explains why something resurfaced and helps the user act, reconnect, archive, or let it go.
AI with restraint
For judges
The product story is visible from the first screen, the interaction model is distinctive, and the repository contains the research, process, prototype, and talk track needed for a strong designathon submission.