Initial Iteration

From our initial "sprint" brainstorming sessions, we developed a purely digital concept to help people forget memories. Our concept was a software that slowly distorts an image over the course of time. As the amount of time passes, the pixels on this image will slowly become blurry, brightened, and graphically distorted, to the point where the image is completely indecipherable. The length of time that passes and the distortion expresses how forgetting a memory is not an immediate act, but a lengthy process due to the difficulty of emotionally detaching from images once so loved. As someone sees a growing "loss" of the photo, we hoped the user would also "lose" a part of the emotional suffering connected to that photo.

However, after feedback and discussion, our group believed staying in a purely digital realm with just a software would not be personal enough for a user to actually forget their memory. Would a person truly be able to detach from a memory by just seeing it slowly fade away over a period of time? The act of seeing the photo everyday in fact would actually make us more inclined to remember the memory, even if it were slowly blurring away. Does our group decided to pivot and began to look for ways to incorporate the physical world with a digital realm.