WriteRight

1. Concept & Research

WriteRite began with a clear idea: handwriting should not be frustrating; it should be playful, intuitive, and physically grounded.

For children learning to write, for people rebuilding motor control, and for anyone practicing calligraphy, the biggest obstacles are discouragement and fear of “doing something wrong.”

The MX Ink Stylus offered a unique opportunity:

• Real surface writing

• Tilt and pressure detection

• Vibration feedback

• High-precision tracing

As the Product Designer and concept lead, I envisioned WriteRight as a universe where handwriting becomes a story.

A small animated character introduces a playful mystery: several items from their world disappeared — and the only way to help is to write missing letters and complete words.

2. Design Strategy

I created the entire experience architecture, from character narrative to UX flow and UI identity.

The learning journey unfolds in three layers:

1. Story: A friendly beaver character talks to the user, explains his world, and invites them to help retrieve missing objects.

2. Practice: Words appear on a virtual A4 sheet placed on the real table, with missing letters the user must trace.

3. Progress: After correctly writing the letter, the word completes itself, and the character advances in the story.

This structure allows a natural loop of: listen → observe → practice → succeed → continue the story.

I designed all the tracing lines, path animations, character pacing, and reward micro-interactions.

To ensure the environment felt grounded, WriteRite used Meta’s Scene Understanding to automatically detect the nearest table and spawn the A4 sheet in perfect alignment. This made every user’s first moment effortless and magical.

3. Prototype Development

We built the entire prototype in 24 hours. I handled all design, UX, Scene Prototype in Shapes XR and 3Dassets. I worked with a developer who implemented it in Unity.

Tools I used:
• Figma
• ShapesXR
• Blender
• Unity Asset Store
• Unity MX Ink Stylus SDK

The interactive table scene included:
• A physical A4 sheet mapped to the real table
• Six different words, each with animated tracing guides
• Real-time tilt and pressure feedback
• Soft vibration cues when the stylus touched the surface
• Story-driven character animations
• Written-word validation logic (“good enough to continue”)

The tracing system was designed for children:
• gentle correction paths
• automatic reset if the user drew in the wrong place
• expressive animations when a letter was written correctly
• small celebratory voice lines from the character

All writing happened on a real table — grounding the user’s body and making the stylus feel like an actual pen.