Hi, I’m Annie! →

I’m a narrative-driven designer specialized in data visualization and branding.
I turn complex information into stories that are clear, engaging, and visually bold.

 
Selected Projects:Blooming Orchids
Fluidnotes
All About Tinned Fish
Breathscape Kit
Toyota Crown AR
P5.Party Games




Momento•ne


Tools: Gemini API, Suno API, Raspberry Pi
Role: Product Design and AI Engineering
Team: Annie Lee, Amna Zaidi, Jess Ge, Josh Binkhorst

Prototype   Github

An exploration of AI’s emotional intelligence, using fine-tuned models, a chatbot, Suno API, and Raspberry Pi to sense emotions, associate them with colors, and express them through music and light—delivered as both a responsive conversational lamp with built-in speaker and projection, and an app/web platform for journaling and archival.
Our Momentone prototype runs on a Raspberry Pi, which powers the conversation and feeds it into our finetuned Gemini model. The model, trained to map emotions to colors and generate optimized music prompts, produces the text prompt. This is then sent to the Suno API to generate music.


PROJECT BREAKDOWN


01 - Chatbot

Journaling Prompt:
✿ User Audio Input
✿ Gemini 2.0 Flash
✿ TTS Conversion
✿ Audio Playback


02 - Chat to Prompt

Sentiment Analysis:
✿ Emotion
✿ Energy Level
✿ Themes

03 - Music & Visuals

Create dynamic visual with p5.js:
✿ Dominant color
✿ Map Energy Level to Motion
✿ SunoAPI creates a 30 seconds track

04 - Physical Attributes

Live response from a lamp
✿ RasP controls the lamp
✿ Acts as a CPU to process all the data




INSPIRATION


Sho Shibuya paints over the news with the everyday beauty of nature, later confronting it directly to explore his own emotions and reactions to the daily onslaught of stories—sad, happy, and always immediate. Inspired by this approach, we drew on The Pudding’s Emotion Wheel to train our model to recognize and express complex feelings—sometimes even those we struggle to name ourselves—through music and color.