In today’s digital age, our online lives have become extensions of identity.
But what happens to our digital presence when we pass away?
Digital traces are scattered across platforms, with no established practices for preservation or individual control after death.
At the same time, emerging grief technologies expose fundamental ethical tensions around consent, privacy and data ownership.
A UX and service strategy that enables guided curation and authorship of ones’s digital legacy, proposing a new framework for how we might remember and be remembered.
We designed Echo as a three-part service system that combines guided curation, tangible preservation and immersive remembrance to restore agency over digital legacies and define new rituals of remembrance in a digital age.
Selected for Dutch Design Week 2025, presented at Museum Tot Zover’s Seminar Digitale Dood and exhibited at Waag’s Hyperlink and ThingsCon 2024.
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A platform strategy that challenges algorithmic models of streaming, combining cultural preservation with digital sustainability to promote conscious consumption.
