Finders Keepers
A Find My iPhone-style item tracking app — locate your keys, glasses, car, and bag from a single screen
UI/UX design · 2025We've all lost something small — keys, glasses, a bag — and spent 20 minutes retracing steps before finding it exactly where it shouldn't be. Finders Keepers is a tracker app designed to solve that: attach a small keychain device to any object and locate it instantly from your phone.
The design challenge was making a complex tracking system — Bluetooth range detection, map-based location, buzzing alerts — feel as simple as a list of your things. One screen. One tap. Found.
The visual identity is warm and approachable — a bear mascot called FinderSeeker, golden-brown iconography, and a clean white iOS-native layout. The warmth is intentional: losing something is stressful, and the app's job is to immediately reduce that stress, not add to it with a cold or technical interface.
FinderSeeker — a round bear face with a magnifying glass — appears on the splash screen and becomes the app's emotional anchor. It signals immediately that this is a friendly, personal tool, not a surveillance product.
Every tracked object (home, car, purse, glasses, keys) has a custom icon in a consistent warm amber — making the home screen scannable at a glance without reading any text.
The full prototype covers all three scenarios end-to-end — registration, adding a keychain, and locating a lost item both in range and out of range.