Cyber Cypher 5.0

Focus Domain: Everyday Apps, Reimagined

This domain invites you to reimagine the everyday digital tools we all rely on email, calendars, notes, messaging, and more. The goal: take something ordinary and redesign it to feel extraordinary. Whether it's an inbox that empathizes with your mood, a task app that adapts to your flow, or a chat system that respects your focus time this is your chance to breathe creativity into the mundane.

Problem 1

POV

Hi, I'm Asha. I manage healthcare for more than just myself. My father depends on long-term medication, I handle occasional prescriptions of my own, and between the two of us, care is spread across habits, reminders, pharmacy visits, and conversations that rarely live in one place. Some tools feel too complex for my father to trust. Others feel too rigid for me to rely on. The people who understand our routines best local pharmacists and family members aren't part of the digital experience at all. As our needs change over time, the systems meant to support us stay the same. What I need isn't another task manager for health. I need something that understands that healthcare is shared, uneven, and deeply tied to how people actually live their days.

Problem Statement

Design an everyday healthcare app that fits naturally into real human routines rather than forcing routines to adapt to it. The experience should support the ongoing, everyday nature of healthcare medications, refills, reminders, follow-ups, and interactions across people with different abilities, responsibilities, and levels of comfort with technology. It should feel equally usable for someone managing their own care and for someone managing care on behalf of others. The product should reflect the reality that healthcare is not static. Needs change, roles shift, and understanding grows or fades over time. The system should respond to these changes in a way that feels intuitive, reliable, and humane, without becoming overwhelming or impersonal. The outcome should be a wireframe experience that clearly communicates not just how the interface looks, but what kind of everyday healthcare life it is designed to support and why that approach makes managing care feel simpler, safer, and more human over time.

Problem 2

Inbox, Reimagined Designing the Future of Collaborative Communication

POV:

Hi, I'm Kartik, a design intern balancing coursework, deadlines, and early-stage startup work all flowing through the same communication tools. My day is shaped by emails, meeting invites, follow-ups, and threads that span people, time, and context. Between unread messages and an overbooked calendar, I constantly switch between reacting and planning, often missing what actually matters. I don't just want fewer emails or fewer meetings, I want a communication system that helps me understand what needs attention now, what can wait, and how my time is really being spent.

Problem Statement:

Design a next-generation collaborative email and calendar experience that rethinks how people communicate, coordinate, and manage attention. Instead of treating email and calendar as separate tools, explore how they can work together as a unified system one that understands intent, urgency, relationships, and time. Consider how conversations turn into meetings, how meetings create follow-ups, and how poor coordination leads to overload and lost focus. Email and calendar should be treated as baseline features; if time permits and your idea calls for it, you are encouraged to introduce additional elements that help complete the collaborative communication experience. Your solution should prioritize clarity, control, and emotional calm, going beyond visual polish to address how people read, respond, schedule, and collaborate throughout the day. Think about focus-first communication, meaningful grouping of conversations and events, shared context within teams, and subtle design choices that encourage healthier communication habits without overwhelming users.

Outcome:

Present a comprehensive Wireframe experience that communicates a clear philosophy for how email and calendar should work together. The result should feel like a calm, intelligent workspace for communication, not two (or more) separate tools stitched together.