Entrepreneur project · Temples Service

天道 / TINDAO

Tindao — case study cover, app screens overview with AI Temple Guide branding

Overview

A mobile companion that turns a temple visit into a guided cultural experience.

Set in Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tindao helps visitors discover ritual spots around them, understand traditions like Kau Cim through step-by-step explanations in three languages (EN / 中文 / 粵語), ask questions to an AI temple guide, and support the temple through a transparent micro-donation flow.

Problem

Temples like Wong Tai Sin attract millions of visitors, but most experience them superficially: rituals look fascinating yet remain opaque, signage is limited, language is a barrier for tourists, and there is no clear, trusted way to contribute to the temple's preservation.

Solution

Tindao bridges this gap with four connected experiences: location-aware discovery of nearby ritual spots, AR scanning that recognizes points of interest in the courtyard, plain-language ritual explainers in EN / 中文 / 粵語, an AI temple guide for questions on deities and etiquette, and a transparent 3-step donation flow with a shareable donor certificate.

Tools & Methodology

Figma (UX/UI, flow prototyping), user journey mapping, AR interaction design, conversational UI design, donation/service flow design.

Key Features

From Discovery to Devotion

Near By & Map

Ritual spots ranked by distance in steps (e.g. "20 Steps"), with a live map showing the user's position.

AR Scanning

Point the camera at the courtyard: Tindao recognizes the point of interest in view and surfaces a contextual card with a link to its detail.

Ritual Explainers

A plain-language description of each ritual plus a step-by-step "How it works" guide, switchable between EN / 中文 / 粵語.

Master Tin 天師 (AI Guide)

A chatbot with quick questions — "What does this deity represent?", "Can I take photos here?" — answering on deities, rituals and etiquette.

Transparent Donations

A 3-step flow — choose your impact, pick an amount and payment method, add a personal meaning — ending in a shareable donor certificate with the year's total raised.

Product Walkthrough

Explore, Understand, Support

Discover

The home screen welcomes visitors to Wong Tai Sin Temple with nearby ritual spots ranked by step distance and a live map. Pointing the camera at the courtyard, AR scanning recognizes the spot in view and surfaces its detail card.

Tindao — home screen, Wong Tai Sin Temple welcome, Near By ritual spots ranked by step distance and a map

Home — Near By & Map

Tindao — AR scanning of Wong Tai Sin courtyard recognizing the Kau Cim spot

AR Scanning

Understand

Each spot opens into an immersive detail page — an introduction to the practice, a language selector (EN / 中文 / 粵語), and a "How it works" guide breaking the ritual into simple steps. For anything left unanswered, Master Tin 天師, the AI temple guide, is one tap away.

Tindao — Kau Cim / Chi-Chi Sticks spot detail with immersive photo, description and language selector

Spot Detail — Kau Cim / Chi-Chi Sticks

Tindao — How It Works guide, 4 steps to perform the Kau Cim ritual

How It Works

Tindao — Master Tin AI temple guide chat with quick questions on deities and etiquette

Master Tin 天師 — AI Temple Guide

Support

Giving back is a guided, three-step flow: choose which cause to support, pick an amount and payment method, and add a personal meaning to the gift. Every donation ends in a shareable certificate showing the temple's yearly total, funded projects and latest restoration update.

Tindao — donation step 1, choose your impact: preservation, religious activities, educational programmes or community aid

Donate — Step 1: Choose Your Impact

Tindao — donation step 2, suggested amounts and payment method: AlipayHK, WeChat Pay, PayMe or Octopus

Donate — Step 2: Amount & Payment

Tindao — donation step 3, personal meaning for the gift

Donate — Step 3: Personal Meaning

Tindao — donor certificate confirming the gift, yearly total raised, projects financed and latest restoration update

Donor Certificate & Impact

Design Notes

A warm orange-to-red gradient — lanterns, incense, tradition — sits on neutral, light backgrounds. Typography is bold and rounded, cards use a generous corner radius, and CTAs are pill-shaped with the signature gradient. Trilingualism (EN / 中文 / 粵語) is treated as a core accessibility principle, not an afterthought.

What Makes Tindao Different

Guide, not gatekeep

AR and an AI temple guide replace confusing signage, without disrupting the spiritual atmosphere.

Trilingual by design

Every explainer and every ritual is available in EN / 中文 / 粵語 from the first screen.

Transparent giving

Every donation ends in a certificate showing exactly where the money goes.

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