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  Intuition That Swings Into Action.

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🕸️ Tingl

Intuition That Swings Into Action.

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✨ Inspiration

Spidey Sense is a heightened awareness that warns Spider-Man of danger before it happens. It is an instinctive signal that something is not right, arriving before there is any reason to know.

Mothers experience the same thing.

The racing heart before the phone rings. The urge to check on a child who turns out to need her. We built Tingl after asking why that instinct had no technological equivalent. Every existing app either surveilled too much or reacted too late, and none of them trusted the feeling parents already had.

Tingl turns that instinct into a signal they can see and act on.

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🕷️ What It Does

Tingl is a two sided safety app pairing an Apple Watch for kids with an iPhone app for parents. It passively monitors signals like heart rate, route deviation, movement, and stillness, nudging mom only when something actually feels off.

No constant tracking. No panic buttons. Just quiet intelligence that knows the difference between everything is fine and something is wrong.

Kids can also send virtual hugs, tap a mood check in, and reach mom silently without it ever feeling like a big moment. The app protects a child even when they do nothing at all.

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🦸🏻‍♂️ How We Built It

We grounded everything in research first.

Safety data, parenting studies, peer reviewed maternal intuition and empathy science, Reddit threads, TikTok testimonials from real mothers, and A/B user testing with a middle aged mother of two. From there we moved into participatory design on FigJam where each team member sketched their vision independently and a nine year old contributed Apple Watch flow ideas.

We narrowed down to two flows, built a full Figma prototype, and used Figma Make to bring AI powered features to life including the intuition log and community safety network.

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🔴 Challenges We Ran Into

Balancing safety with autonomy was our hardest design problem. We had to build something that gave our kid persona independence while giving our mom persona confidence, without making either one feel surveilled or dismissed.

Getting the alert copy right after user testing pushed us to completely rethink how much information a panicking parent actually needs in three seconds. Our participant could not act on vague language without knowing who, what, where and why first.

That single finding reshaped the entire alert screen and became one of the most important design decisions in the project.

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👩‍🍼 Accomplishments We Are Proud Of

We are proud of the passive Tingl sensing layer — the idea that the app protects a child even when they do nothing at all.

We are proud of the intuition log, a future feature that tracks a mother's biometric signals against real outcomes over time and tells her she was right with data to back it up.

And we are most proud of validating our entire concept from a real user who described the exact problem Tingl solves from her own life, completely unprompted, during our testing session. That moment confirmed we were designing something that actually needed to exist.

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👒 What We Learned

Maternal intuition is not a soft concept. It is backed by cortisol data, physiological research, and decades of parenting science.

Designing for emotion and designing for safety are not opposites. The best safety tool is one that feels like trust, not surveillance. We also learned that kids in distress often stay silent not because they do not want help but because no one made it easy enough to ask.

Tingl tries to fix that too.

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💙 What Is Next for Tingl

Third Party Loop — A trusted contact loop that automatically notifies a teacher or emergency contact when a child cannot respond.

Priority Alerts — Alert levels so parents can triage urgency without reading every notification.

Intuition Log — An expanded log that builds a personalized accuracy record over thirty days.

Community Safety Network — A shared space where parents in the same neighborhood can share what they are seeing on the ground in real time.

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Built with 🕸️ by Team Spidey Senses — MHCID @ UC Irvine FigBuild 2026

Built With

• figma