Chapter 4

Dandi

In 72 hours, our team of four designed a wearable and app to help women with PCOS understand their hormones. Out of 688 submissions, Dandi won Most Impact at Figma’s FigBuild 2026.

Role: Designer: research, visual direction and storytelling
Tools: Figma, Figma Make, React, TypeScript, Claude Code
Team: Beverly Yip, Jenn Choi, Queenie Hsiao
Timeline: 72 hours, March 2026
Recognition: Most Impact, FigBuild 2026, Devpost

Two teammates sketching the Dandi concept on a whiteboard

The Problem

In 2021, about 65.77 million women of childbearing age were living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). I’m one of them.

My PCOS journey started in 2018. Since then I’ve tracked it and seen multiple doctors, but I’ve never been able to stay consistent with my supplements, or get answers from providers. I’m still figuring it out.

Figma’s brief asked for a speculative tool that tracks and influences something intangible about the human senses, for wellness or behavior change. I helped with the research, visual direction and storytelling.

Problem statement

How might we help women with PCOS understand what their bodies are telling them?

Research

A collage of the team working through the 72-hour hackathon — whiteboarding, pairing at laptops, and a “Locked in on Figma!” sticker — In 72 hours, we combined rapid research, team whiteboarding, and lived-experience interviews to define the core problem space.

What We Learned

Staying consistent with supplements is hard, even when you know they help.
Led to: An earring that delivers supplements hands-free, with no pills to remember.
Providers rarely have clear answers, and every body responds differently.
Led to: An assistant that learns each woman’s patterns and adjusts her supplement schedule.
Without answers from providers, women turn to each other.
Led to: A community space with expert-reviewed answers about PCOS.

The Design

Designed for womenYour Supplements, Delivered Hands-Free, An earring reads body signals and delivers supplements automatically, with no pills to remember.

Designed for womenCare That Adapts to You, An AI assistant learns each woman's patterns and adjusts her supplement schedule in real time.

Designed for womenYou’re Not Alone, A community space connects women with others like them and with expert-reviewed answers about PCOS.

Dandi is speculative, as the brief asked. An earring that reads hormones and doses supplements would need clinical validation and regulatory review before anyone wore one.

Try the Prototype

Try it yourself!Beverly and Queenie built this in React and TypeScript during the hackathon. It runs in the browser.Open the prototype in a new tab

Results

Out of 688 submissions, Dandi won Most Impact.

Reflections

Designing from the Inside: Being the user meant I caught assumptions my teammates couldn’t. Lived experience is research, but it still needs checking against other people’s realities.
Impact Came from Specificity, Not Scope: We won Most Impact not by covering everything PCOS touches, but by doing a few things with care. I carry that into how I scope every project now.

Notes

Global burden of polycystic ovary syndrome among women of childbearing age, 1990–2021, Frontiers in Public Health, 2025, from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.