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Lensora · 0–1 mobile product
Making professional
photography guidance
feel effortless
I transformed a complex, back-and-forth shooting process into a guided linear experience. Each step gives the user one clear task, while a separate system layer measures whether they are ready to move forward.
Role
Sole Product Designer
RESPONSIBILITIES
End-to-end UX/UI design
Stage
0-to-1
Timeline
Nov 2025 - Feb 2026
01
Product context
The opportunity
Taking a strong portrait requires many interconnected decisions: framing, camera position, subject position, pose, lighting, and timing. Experienced photographers make these judgments almost simultaneously. For a beginner, that creates cognitive overload before they ever press the shutter.
Lensora uses scene understanding and visual templates to guide people through those decisions in real time.
Design challenge
How might we translate an interconnected expert process into simple instructions without losing the precision the system needs?
02
The original experience
Where the flow broke down
The system’s logic became
the user’s burden.
The original flow exposed dependencies between framing, positioning, and posing. Fixing one condition could invalidate another, sending users backward through repeated checks and correction loops.
Core insight
We simplified photography into individual steps, but the underlying variables remained deeply connected. As a result, users were forced to move backward whenever one adjustment affected another.
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