Twin Talkies AI-A Speech Discovery App for Twins
Twin Talkies AI is a playful mobile tool that helps parents make sense of their twins’ unique way of speaking. By capturing conversations and highlighting key milestones, it turns giggles and babble into meaningful insights.
My Role:
UI Designer (with UX input)
Duration:
4 weeks
Goal:
This project aims to create a fun and friendly mobile experience that helps parents capture and decode the magical language of twins. From tracking milestones to translating toddler talk, the app brings speech development to life with shareable visuals, playful games, and personalized tools that make learning feel like bonding.
Solution:
Twin Talkies AI delivers a playful yet intelligent mobile experience that empowers parents to understand their twins’ unique way of communicating. Through voice capture, milestone tracking, and simple visualizations, the app bridges the gap between adorable gibberish and meaningful progress.
Tools:
Figma, FigJam, Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator
Overview
How Do You Translate Twin Talk?
Parents of toddler twins often find themselves decoding a unique language spoken only between their children — full of giggles, gestures, and made-up sounds. While adorable, this secret language can make it hard to track speech development or know when to seek support.
Twin Talkies AI is a mobile concept designed to help parents record, analyze, and better understand their twins’ evolving speech. This project explores how design and AI can come together to turn daily chatter into meaningful milestones — all while celebrating connection, learning, and playful moments.
Target Audience
Parents of twins aged 0–4
Curious caregivers, educators, and speech-language enthusiasts
Parents seeking to understand non-linear, shared language development
Process
Light competitive review & user needs reference
Feature sketching & layout planning
High-fidelity UI wireframes
Visual exploration & iteration
UI storytelling through final screens
Light Competitive Review & User Needs Reference
A light market and user scan revealed clear gaps in existing speech development apps—especially for twins. Twin Talkies AI was shaped by these findings, bringing playful, emotionally-aware features to underserved caregivers.
Market Gaps Identified vs What Parents Need:
Few Twin-Specific Tools
Most speech development apps focus on individual language acquisition without accounting for shared twin speech patterns.
Lack of Gamified Learning
Many tools lack engaging elements that encourage kids to participate actively in speech practice.
No Real-Time Emotional Feedback
Current solutions rarely provide tone or mood interpretation to help caregivers understand the emotion behind babble.
Generic UI/UX
Designs are often overly clinical or overly simple, lacking warmth, playfulness, or personalization.
Decode "Twin Talk"
Help parents understand repeated patterns, emotional cues, and shared expressions between twins.
Celebrate Milestones
Allow families to capture, track, and share key moments like first words or twin-specific phrases.
Personalization & Play
Make the experience engaging with customizable avatars, mini games, and emotion-based features.
Simple, Friendly Design
Intuitive layouts, soft colors, and reassuring feedback encourage regular use.
Feature Sketching & Layout Planning
Exploring layout ideas for a playful, accessible UI. Initial feature sketches explored playful, clean layouts that prioritized accessibility for caregivers. Focus was on quick navigation, visual clarity, and feature visibility.
Visual Exploration & Iteration
Tested multiple directions before choosing the warm, playful aesthetic. Early explorations included more minimal, a bit cold styles, but they lacked the emotional spark needed for a tool designed to support parents and little ones. The final look balances joy, clarity, and connection—just like the app’s purpose.
UI Storytelling Through Final Screens
Each screen was crafted to support a narrative—playful, intuitive, and deeply human. The goal was not only to display functionality, but to emotionally guide parents and caregivers through moments of joy, curiosity, and connection. From welcoming illustrations to interactive insights, every UI element supports the experience of decoding and celebrating twin communication.
Welcome & Home:
From Babble to Meaning — Like Magic!
The Welcome experience invites users with cheerful twin characters, a soft peachy palette, and puzzle motifs that subtly reference decoding speech patterns. The tagline, “From Babble to Meaning, Like Magic,” sets an imaginative, AI-powered tone that resonates with curious parents of twins.
The Home screen offers an intuitive dashboard of key features, using clear iconography and soft-toned tiles. Categories like Record, Connect, Emotions, and Milestones are instantly accessible, empowering users to begin exploring without friction.
Onboarding:
Meet the App, Meet the Twins
The onboarding process gently introduces users to Twin Talkies AI with cheerful illustrations and simple language.
While it hints at core app features like translation and tracking, the onboarding screens focus more on building connection and introducing the app’s emotional tone—rather than diving into detailed features.The goal is to make parents feel guided, not overwhelmed, like they have just found a helpful co-pilot in their twin parenting journey.
Twin Language Translator:
Blah blee bloo becomes “I love you”
This signature feature allows parents to record and analyze their twins’ unique babble using playful, intuitive UI elements. Once a snippet is recorded, the app uses lightweight AI feedback to offer real-time emotional tone or semantic guesses, helping caregivers make sense of repeated sounds, gestures, or emotional cues. This feature supports connection, not correction—celebrating the magic of twin communication.
Milestones & Special Moments:
Tiny twin victories, captured forever.
Celebrate every giggle, phrase, and “twin thing” with a timeline designed for joy. This screen allows parents to log key speech and bonding milestones, from first recognizable words to quirky twinisms and mirrored body language. Features like photo uploads, voice memory recordings, and playful icon tagging let families capture these moments with ease. The layout encourages reflection and storytelling, making it more than a tracker—it becomes a living memory lane of twin development.
Progress Tracker:
Growth, visualized simply.
This visual dashboard helps parents track and compare each twin’s vocabulary growth over time. A clean, color-coded line graph presents word count trends, favorite phrases, and expressive patterns in an intuitive layout. With gentle animation and playful labels like “New Word!” or “Most Repeated,” the tracker transforms raw data into encouraging visual stories—highlighting similarities, differences, and unique rhythms in each child’s speech journey.
Twin Avatars & Mini Babble Games
Speak, play, repeat!
Twins come to life through customizable avatars and playful mini challenges like Rhyme Time and Speech Safari. These screens blend fun with learning — encouraging kids to explore language in ways they find exciting and interactive.
Real twin wisdom, all in one place.
Parents can dive deeper with scientific insights, expert perspectives, and personal stories from other twin families. The final screens act as a cozy library, giving users tools and emotional support to navigate the wild world of twin talk.
Design Rationale
The goal of the TwinTalkies AI interface was to balance playfulness with clarity, catering to both young families and the curious, research-minded parent. I used a warm, peach-toned base with navy and teal accents to evoke friendliness and trust. Consistent iconography and soft, rounded shapes enhanced accessibility, especially for parents navigating while multitasking. Each feature card — from Mini Babble Games to Milestone Logging — is visually distinct through customized illustrations and action-based CTAs like 'Jump In!' or 'Go Babble!' to invite interaction.
I prioritized visual hierarchy, ensuring titles, CTAs, and interactive sections are immediately scannable. Custom illustrations reflect diverse twin personalities, helping parents connect emotionally to the experience. Thoughtful use of color coding (e.g., Twin A vs. Twin B in graphs) supports comparative insights without visual clutter. Throughout, I iterated based on visual flow and affordance feedback — fine-tuning margins, alignment, and interaction cues for a highly polished UI.
Research Snapshot
While this project was focused on UI execution, I grounded my design in observed behaviors and assumptions around twin communication and parenting. I considered how parents of twins often experience unique challenges in deciphering "twin talk"—a shared, intuitive language that can feel both magical and mystifying. Competitive scans of child-focused apps (e.g., Duolingo Kids, Speech Blubs, and parenting milestone trackers) revealed a gap: no dedicated tool exists to decode and visualize twin speech patterns in a playful, emotionally engaging way. This informed my approach—prioritizing a balance of warmth, interactivity, and clarity. Even without direct user interviews, I designed for accessibility, ease of use with one hand, and a strong emotional arc that supports the parenting journey.
Outcomes
Unique UX/UI project targeting a specific user need
Balanced educational content with playful aesthetics
21+ high-fidelity screens for various app functions
What I Have Learnt
Crafting for dual-user experience (twins + parents)
Blending emotion, data, and delight
CTA clarity in utility and play
Next Steps
Add real-time voice analysis
Enable milestone sharing
Include expert learning content
Introduce AI-guided speech practice games
Add twin-to-parent communication summaries
Support for multilingual families
Include daycare/teacher collaboration mode
Expand visualizations for language growth
Include expert learning content
Support for multilingual families
Include daycare/teacher collaboration mode
Final Thought
TwinTalkies AI is not just an app — it is a bridge between the magical world of twin babble and the grown-ups who want to understand it. This project was about designing not only for clarity and usability, but also for wonder, whimsy, and love…