This project began as a digital act of upcycling—reimagining the early-2000s, superfan website onlypollypocket.com through a contemporary lens. Created for my Design History class, Pollyworld revives the playful logic, saturated colors, and earnest interactivity of early web culture, while speculating on how that space might exist today with an AI component embedded within it.

The site draws heavily from nostalgic interfaces—clickable worlds, dress-up screens, collections, and message systems—treating them not as outdated relics, but as design languages worth preserving and evolving. By introducing an AI “Pocket” companion that helps generate scenes and worlds, the project explores how automation and imagination can coexist, and how today’s technologies might amplify, rather than erase, the joy of slow, tactile digital play.

Pollyworld ultimately asks what it means to care for digital history: how we can recycle visual culture, retain its emotional resonance, and re-activate it for a new generation of interaction.