As I was experimenting with m project, I built Inside Your Mind – a second-person psychological narrative experience created in p5.js. I felt like with the creativity I developed in the class Tinkercad would not be enough to show my ideas, altough I tried to make a project on Tinkercad I did not open fully with it, so I chose to do my interactive experinec in p5. The project moves away from game mechanics and goals, and toward something more expressive and open-ended: a guided journey through four emotional stages of the mind, rendered through fluid particle typography and sound.
The experience opens with a kinetic typography intro sequence a personal greeting, a typewriter reveal, a search bar that types “inside your mind” — before transitioning into the main particle world. From there, users navigate different stages of mind, noise, overthink, break and finally silence.
User Testing
User testing was conducted with participant who experienced the full interactive sequence from the intro through all four stages. My little brother. Participant were observed interacting freely with no instructions given beyond “explore it.”
The response was overwhelmingly positive.
Tester consistently described the experience as something they hadn’t encountered before, not a game, not a website, something in between that felt genuinely immersive. My brother spent more time in the experience than expected, going back and forth between stages to compare how the particles moved differently in each one. The fluid typography was the element that resonated most strongly. Tester were drawn to how the text was simultaneously readable and alive. The sound design was a notable highlight. Tester immediately noticed that each stage sounded different, and several remarked that the cursor sounds made the experience feel tactile, like they were touching something. The wind sound in Stage 1, the water drops in Stage 2, the glitch crackle in Stage 3, and the bell chimes in Stage 4 each reinforced the emotional tone of that chapter which made it more cohesive.
Link to user testing video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y8koBlJ7WqWSgiGLDeGFhjZYJn5P-0Ib/view?usp=drivesdk
Areas noted for potential refinement:
I am considering to add an introduction to the experience explaining more about the interactivness, I am inspired by motion design, lately have been watching different motion design ad proposals for brands and I enjoyed the animations, so I would want to implement it to my project by learning and applying it.