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ModuMind

See your mind. Shape it.

Product Design · 3D · AI · 2024

ModuMind

Problem

Cognitive reframing is abstract. Seeing your patterns in 3D makes them tangible.

ModuMind turns limiting mental patterns into interactive 3D scenes you can physically transform — making the invisible visible and the stuck malleable.

Describe your pattern, see it rendered

Describe your pattern, see it rendered

Type a limiting belief. AI reads the texture of what you wrote — the shape, the weight, the colour — and renders it as a 3D scene you can walk around.

Step inside your own mind

Step inside your own mind

Your pattern becomes a spatial metaphor — a lone figure on a stage, under a spotlight, with the audience hidden in shadow. The abstract becomes something you can look at.

Key Insight

Embodied cognition as interface

Research shows that physical manipulation of abstract concepts accelerates cognitive change. ModuMind applies this by making mental patterns spatial objects you can reshape with your hands.

Landing — 'See your mind. Shape it.' on a black canvas with a wireframe icosahedron, deliberate restraint over animation.

Landing — 'See your mind. Shape it.' on a black canvas with a wireframe icosahedron, deliberate restraint over animation.

01 · Pattern intake — open prompt with four starter examples for users without a vocabulary yet.

01 · Pattern intake — open prompt with four starter examples for users without a vocabulary yet.

02 · 'Here's what I see' — Claude reads the entry and returns a named pattern ('The Courtroom Mind'), category, and an editable description.

02 · 'Here's what I see' — Claude reads the entry and returns a named pattern ('The Courtroom Mind'), category, and an editable description.

03 · Visual brief — imagery, colors, texture written like a film treatment, then 'Creating your world…' kicks off the 30–60s 3D render.

03 · Visual brief — imagery, colors, texture written like a film treatment, then 'Creating your world…' kicks off the 30–60s 3D render.

Before — 'The Courtroom Mind' rendered as a brass cage suspended between cold concrete pillars, AI reframe conversation in the side panel.

Before — 'The Courtroom Mind' rendered as a brass cage suspended between cold concrete pillars, AI reframe conversation in the side panel.

After — same scene re-generated from one chat instruction: 'open the doors, fill the room with warm sunlight, replace the empty pews with a circle of friends'. The reframe becomes spatial.

After — same scene re-generated from one chat instruction: 'open the doors, fill the room with warm sunlight, replace the empty pews with a circle of friends'. The reframe becomes spatial.

Stack & Tools

AI

Claude (Sonnet)Claude CodeImage generation API

design

Figma

code

Next.js 16Three.js@react-three/fiber@react-three/drei@react-three/postprocessingFramer MotionZustand

infra

Anthropic SDKVercel

Reflection

What I’d revisit

The 3D generation pipeline is impressive but slow. Real therapeutic use would need sub-second rendering and a curated scene library rather than fully generative output for every session.