1.0 Version

Let It Go

LetItGo 1.0 — Web Ritual for Emotional Release

Role

Product Designer · Creative Technologist (Front-end Prototype)

Format

Web-based interactive ritual (LetItGo 1.0 · Web version)

Timeline

Nov 2025 · ~1 week rapid exploration

Tools

Figma · HTML/CSS/JavaScript · Gemini 3 · VS Code

01 · Overview

LetItGo 1.0 is a small web ritual that turns invisible emotions into visible light.

Instead of typing feelings into a notes app and closing the window, users are invited to write their emotions onto a floating water lantern.

When they press “Let it Go”, the lantern drifts into a night lake, other lanterns quietly converge around it, and the sky gradually transforms from deep ink green to a hopeful purple and gold.

The goal of this prototype is not to “fix” emotions, but to give them a gentle container and an ending form—something the user can watch, thank, and release.

Cinematic Interaction Motion — V1 Prototype

A cinematic 3D experience visualizing how emotions gather, drift, collide, and return through floating lanterns.

02· Design Logic

Virtual Ritual Space
Designed as a calm digital environment where users can “nest” their anxiety or negative emotions before releasing them.

Emotion → Object Translation
Typed emotions transform into a softly glowing lantern, giving abstract feelings a visual, tangible form.

Light as Metaphor
Lantern glow expands on input (acknowledgment) and fades during drift (release), visualizing emotional transformation.

Why Lantern?

A lantern acts as a gentle emotional container, giving the user’s anxiety or negative feelings a safe place to rest before release.

Its slow drifting movement mirrors real emotional processing—gradual, intentional, and calming rather than abrupt.

Transforming a traditional ritual into a digital one creates an intuitive, symbolic experience that needs no explanation yet feels emotionally meaningful.