Moji Museum
Just wrapped up an incredible internship at The Met with two high school students where we explored all phases of the product design lifecycle, from discovery to definition, design and build, user testing and design iteration, to final product delivery.
The students identified a number of issues, but focused on their experience as young people: being disconnected from the museum experience, unsure of how to emotionally connect with artworks, and lacking a sense of community. The solution, Moji Museum, is an Instagram-like social media platform that allows you to look up artworks in the galleries (using an API with Google Gemini 2 embeddings of artwork images), record your thoughts and feelings using emojis and comments, and browse how others feel about artworks.
In the initial sessions, the interns wrote an AI Usage Policy for the internship which specified that AI was only to be used for generating code, and not for creative idea generation or writing. Claude Code was used to create the app, the interns quickly adapted to the chat interface, and it's the first software project I've worked on where I haven't actually looked at or edited the code.
In my opinion, this app is another demonstration of how powerful platform APIs like semantic search and image similarity can provide a solid foundation for quickly building out applications.
Feeling Intensity
I really love this UX idea- each emoji category has four levels of intensity.
Screenshots of various pages in the Moji Museum
