Decision 01
AI as an extension, not the product.
Early versions foregrounded prompts and external AI tools. The final design moves them one level deeper so the reading itself remains complete without AI.
AI Product Prototype / A
Oracle
Product Design / Interaction Design / UX / AI-assisted Prototyping
A personal product prototype exploring how a simple card-drawing concept could evolve into a complete reading journey through interaction design, visual iteration and AI-assisted development.
Designing a digital Tarot experience where interaction and reflection come before AI.
01 · Context & Product Question
Oracle began as a simple Tarot card-drawing idea and gradually evolved into a complete reading experience.
The core product question became: How can a digital Tarot experience feel intentional and reflective rather than like a generic AI generator?
02 · Experience Design
The experience was designed as a progressive journey rather than a single input-output interaction. Each step introduces only the information and action needed at that moment.
Reading journey
- Question
- Spread
- Shuffle
- Draw
- Reveal
- Reading
- Reading Journal
Conceptual journey. In the working prototype, spread selection precedes question entry.
Open interactive prototype
03 · Key Product Decisions
Decision 02
Turn waiting into participation.
An interactive shuffle stage turns the transition before card drawing into a tactile moment of participation.
Decision 03
Mystery through restraint.
The visual direction moved away from dark purple, gold and glow toward warm ivory, paper-like surfaces and restrained editorial typography.
04 · Outcome & Reflection
The final prototype supports 78 Tarot cards, 1 / 3 / 5-card spreads, interactive shuffle, upright / reversed states, a bilingual reading flow, local reading history and optional external AI continuation.
The project showed me that AI-assisted development makes implementation faster, but product quality still depends on defining the experience, evaluating the result and deciding what should be removed.
