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Letters · Connection · Interactive web

Wish You
Were Here.

A quiet place for the words you still want to say.

Enter the galaxy

Design breakdown / concept drawings

Words, then space.

Create a quiet place for something that is difficult to say.

Project image for Begin on paper01 / Write

Begin on paper

A writing surface opens inside the galaxy, with optional prompts and a language setting.

The design choice

Keep writing intimate and unhurried.

The letter preview before sending in Wish You Were Here02 / Release

A deliberate decision

Review the complete letter before confirming anonymous sharing. Submitted letters pass through review before they may appear for readers.

The design choice

Separate writing from the decision to share.

Project image for Company among the stars03 / Read

Company among the stars

Explore the sky and open reading experiences. Stars are entry points, not permanent addresses for individual letters.

The design choice

An open landscape makes room for discovery without a feed.

The live Wish You Were Here experience: a blue and purple galaxy with bright stars and Write a letter and Read a letter controls
The live galaxy, captured from the project.
01 / THE IDEA

Some words still need somewhere to go.

Wish You Were Here gives visitors a quiet place to write to someone they miss. A letter becomes an act of letting go, while reading brings a sense of company among the stars.

02 / THE EXPERIENCE

From paper to the stars.

A paper writing surface opens inside the galaxy. Visitors write, review their words and choose whether to release them for anonymous sharing. After a review, a submitted letter may become available to readers.

The project's empty paper writing surface, with optional prompts and language controls
The actual writing interface. No visitor letter is shown.

Inside the experience

A sky to explore

The procedural galaxy supports dragging and zooming. Its bright stars open reading experiences; they are not fixed locations for individual letters.

A deliberate release

Writing and sharing are separate steps. The letter is reviewed in full before a visitor confirms release, and the transition begins after the submission succeeds.

Room for quiet

Ambient audio is optional and off by default. Motion can be paused, and the experience includes reduced-motion and non-WebGL fallbacks.

WISH YOU WERE HERE

Stay a while.

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