Case study · 05 — UI design · AI

Zara, my
second brain

Role
Designer & builder
Type
Personal AI operating system
Built with
Claude
Interface
Voice-enabled dark UI

The idea

Zara is my personal operating system — one place where my whole life lives. Finance, clients, daily journal, goals, content, body. Instead of six apps, one dark, voice-enabled hub that greets me by name and asks what I'm thinking.

I designed and built it using Claude — every screen, every interaction, the whole information architecture. It's the project that proves the design sensibility behind everything else on this site.

The worlds

The hub is a reactive particle core with six "worlds" orbiting it. Tap to speak, select a world, and the interface reshapes around it:

Finance

Portfolio, XIRR, and SIP tracking — investment discipline, visualised.

Clients

Active client work and status — the freelance pipeline at a glance.

Daily diary

Journal with streak tracking. Capture a thought, keep the chain.

Goals

Long-horizon targets, broken into what today should look like.

Content

Content creation pipeline — ideas to published.

Body

Health and training, tracked like everything else.

The interface

Zara hub — particle core with orbiting worlds
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