Reko (In-Progress)
I explored how physical interaction and digital guidance could work together to reduce friction in recovery. The project included defining therapy modes, designing a modular hardware system, and creating a companion app that supports clarity, consistency, and user trust.
Dec 17, 2025
LENGTH
4 months
LENGTH
4 months
LENGTH
4 months
Role
Solo
Role
Solo
Role
Solo
Service
Industrial Design, UX Design
Service
Industrial Design, UX Design
Service
Industrial Design, UX Design
Healing, designed to live in the palm of your hand.
Healing, designed to live in the palm of your hand.
Healing, designed to live in the palm of your hand.
Challenge: Recovery tools feel cold, complex, and disconnected from the body
Most recovery devices prioritize power and specifications over human experience. Bulky forms, clinical interfaces, and overwhelming settings create distance between the user and their own body. Instead of feeling restorative, recovery often feels intimidating or passive.
Challenge: Recovery tools feel cold, complex, and disconnected from the body
Most recovery devices prioritize power and specifications over human experience. Bulky forms, clinical interfaces, and overwhelming settings create distance between the user and their own body. Instead of feeling restorative, recovery often feels intimidating or passive.
Challenge: Recovery tools feel cold, complex, and disconnected from the body
Most recovery devices prioritize power and specifications over human experience. Bulky forms, clinical interfaces, and overwhelming settings create distance between the user and their own body. Instead of feeling restorative, recovery often feels intimidating or passive.
Solution: Healing that begins with touch
Reko was designed around the idea that healing should start where we instinctively seek comfort: the palm of the hand. Its curved geometry, balanced weight, and tactile surfaces encourage users to hold, explore, and engage. Modular therapy attachments snap into a shared core, allowing recovery to adapt to the body without adding complexity.
Solution: Healing that begins with touch
Reko was designed around the idea that healing should start where we instinctively seek comfort: the palm of the hand. Its curved geometry, balanced weight, and tactile surfaces encourage users to hold, explore, and engage. Modular therapy attachments snap into a shared core, allowing recovery to adapt to the body without adding complexity.
Solution: Healing that begins with touch
Reko was designed around the idea that healing should start where we instinctively seek comfort: the palm of the hand. Its curved geometry, balanced weight, and tactile surfaces encourage users to hold, explore, and engage. Modular therapy attachments snap into a shared core, allowing recovery to adapt to the body without adding complexity.
A soft, arched form designed to rest naturally in the hand, expressing strength, calm, and intention.
A soft, arched form designed to rest naturally in the hand, expressing strength, calm, and intention.
A soft, arched form designed to rest naturally in the hand, expressing strength, calm, and intention.
Insight 1: Touch builds trust
People associate healing with physical contact. By designing Reko to be held rather than worn or aimed, the device reinforces a sense of control and reassurance. The palm becomes the point of connection, grounding recovery in a familiar gesture.
Insight 1: Touch builds trust
People associate healing with physical contact. By designing Reko to be held rather than worn or aimed, the device reinforces a sense of control and reassurance. The palm becomes the point of connection, grounding recovery in a familiar gesture.
Insight 1: Touch builds trust
People associate healing with physical contact. By designing Reko to be held rather than worn or aimed, the device reinforces a sense of control and reassurance. The palm becomes the point of connection, grounding recovery in a familiar gesture.
A subtle light arc communicates intensity and status through peripheral vision, reducing the need for screens or labels.
A subtle light arc communicates intensity and status through peripheral vision, reducing the need for screens or labels.
A subtle light arc communicates intensity and status through peripheral vision, reducing the need for screens or labels.
Insight 2: Modularity should feel emotional, not mechanical
Instead of exposing technical components, Reko’s modules use color and form to express function. Each therapy mode has a distinct visual identity, making customization feel expressive and approachable rather than technical.
Insight 2: Modularity should feel emotional, not mechanical
Instead of exposing technical components, Reko’s modules use color and form to express function. Each therapy mode has a distinct visual identity, making customization feel expressive and approachable rather than technical.
Insight 2: Modularity should feel emotional, not mechanical
Instead of exposing technical components, Reko’s modules use color and form to express function. Each therapy mode has a distinct visual identity, making customization feel expressive and approachable rather than technical.
Heat, vibration, and TENS modules stack into a unified family, each distinguished by color and curvature.
Heat, vibration, and TENS modules stack into a unified family, each distinguished by color and curvature.
Heat, vibration, and TENS modules stack into a unified family, each distinguished by color and curvature.
Insight 3: Clarity encourages consistency
Recovery works best when people return to it regularly. Reko minimizes decisions through physical cues and guided routines, helping users focus on how their body feels instead of which settings to choose.
Insight 3: Clarity encourages consistency
Recovery works best when people return to it regularly. Reko minimizes decisions through physical cues and guided routines, helping users focus on how their body feels instead of which settings to choose.
Insight 3: Clarity encourages consistency
Recovery works best when people return to it regularly. Reko minimizes decisions through physical cues and guided routines, helping users focus on how their body feels instead of which settings to choose.
Insight 3: Clarity encourages consistency
Recovery works best when people return to it regularly. Reko minimizes decisions through physical cues and guided routines, helping users focus on how their body feels instead of which settings to choose.
Contrasting with typical health apps, this UI design mimics the physical geometry of this device for full immersiveness. Demo: https://youtu.be/FjDlXshXx2Y
Contrasting with typical health apps, this UI design mimics the physical geometry of this device for full immersiveness. Demo: https://youtu.be/FjDlXshXx2Y
Contrasting with typical health apps, this UI design mimics the physical geometry of this device for full immersiveness. Demo: https://youtu.be/FjDlXshXx2Y
Reko reframes therapy as an active, human experience rooted in touch and intuition. By centering healing in the palm of the hand, the system empowers users to listen to their body, personalize recovery, and reconnect with movement on their own terms. Demo: https://youtu.be/FjDlXshXx2Y
Reko reframes therapy as an active, human experience rooted in touch and intuition. By centering healing in the palm of the hand, the system empowers users to listen to their body, personalize recovery, and reconnect with movement on their own terms. Demo: https://youtu.be/FjDlXshXx2Y
