Emotional Reconstruction

"Emotional Reconstruction" is an interactive project about turning color into emotional language. I was interested in how color can feel personal, not just visual, and I wanted to explore how a palette might connect to mood, memory, and atmosphere. Instead of making something that gives users a fixed result right away, I wanted the project to feel more interpretive and reflective. In the project, users drag color swatches into two generative areas, where each color creates both feeling words and scene fragments. The feeling words describe emotional qualities, while the scene fragments create a more poetic and visual atmosphere. Users then choose the words and scenes that feel most like them, and the system generates an emotional profile with a title, interpretation, and score breakdown. The main design question I explored was: How can an interface make abstract emotions feel visual, interactive, and readable? I wanted to see if color could work as a starting point for self-interpretation, and if interaction could help build meaning step by step. One of my main takeaways from this project was that interaction design is not just about making something functional. Small choices in structure, layout, and sequencing can completely change how meaningful a project feels. During the process, the project developed from a more open-ended visual idea into a clearer system of color selection, word generation, and interpretation, which helped me make the concept stronger.