Detection
Live visual scan
Watches incoming content for potentially harmful visual patterns.
Workday + CS++ / Accessibility sprint
Lavendar
Cover Guard
A protective browser layer for seizure-triggering visuals.
A hackathon prototype that detects risky flashing content and shields photosensitive users before the full visual reaches the screen.
- Browser extension
- Accessibility
- Real-time guard
- 2026 sprint
01 / Mission
Mission
Reduce the time between a harmful visual appearing and a user being protected from it.
Social and web content can expose photosensitive users to dangerous flashes before they have time to react or scroll away.
The sprint focused on a browser-level safety flow that could respond early while remaining feasible to prototype, explain, and demonstrate.
02 / Method
Method
A short protection path from incoming content to a safer user-controlled state.
- 01Incoming visual
- 02Pattern scan
- 03Risk detected
- 04Protective cover
- 05User control
03 / Prototype
Prototype
The experience makes the safety response visible, immediate, and easy to understand in a demo.
Protection
Shielded state
Places a protective cover before the full trigger is shown.
Experience
Clear safety cues
Keeps the intervention legible so the product feels protective rather than confusing.
04 / Build
Build
The sprint joined problem framing, working extension behavior, interface states, and a pitch-ready walkthrough.
Problem lock
Narrowed seizure safety into one high-impact browser protection flow.
Prototype build
Developed the extension behavior and user-facing shield states in parallel.
Pitch polish
Refined the walkthrough so the technical work and user risk were clear within seconds.
05 / Role
Role
Collaborative product framing, prototype delivery, interface refinement, and final presentation work during the sprint.
- Helped define the seizure-safety problem and practical browser protection scope.
- Contributed to working behavior and user-facing interface states.
- Supported the final walkthrough and presentation narrative.
06 / Outcome
Outcome
A clear accessibility concept, working prototype, and award-winning presentation.
Lavender won both UI/UX and Presentation awards, recognizing the product framing, interface quality, and clarity of execution under sprint constraints.
07 / Archive
Sprint documentation
Screens, event photos, and working moments from the build and final presentation.
