A walking app where your daily steps grow a living little island. You arrange it, decorate it, watch the weather roll over it, and sail out to friends’ islands across bridges. I designed it screen by screen.
Each one is something you can see in the screens. The crops below are cut straight from the app, so you can check the design against the claim.
The island carries its own cue, “Tap to select · Hold an item to move it”, and a second line sits right under the scene: “Hold an item to drag it · tap to edit.” The same rule appears in two places, so the interaction can be learned without a tutorial.
The big number is what you’ve done (6,485), the goal sits quietly in the corner, and the gap is worded as “3,515 steps to go.” It’s a distance still to cover, not a shortfall to explain. The week is a row of tiles with today filled in.
A compact strip says “Rain showers · preview” with the next hours as three small icons, and the rain is visible on the island itself. The forecast becomes context for your next walk, echoing the calm weather communication I explored in AERI.
The island’s mood is “86% happy”, sitting next to the faces of the person and the cat who live there, and captioned “A living little world.” It reads as a mood, not a dashboard, which keeps the app from feeling like homework.
Friends are islands in a shared sea you sail around by dragging. A bridge means a real connection (“Connected by your bridge”), groups have names (“Willow Walkers”), and locked islands show a lock instead of vanishing. These screens show presence and connection rather than rankings.
System events become small stories: “Pasha stopped to say hi to Amara.” A basket holds your harvest, and the copy nudges toward generosity: sell it, or give goods to neighbors. Specific, warm microcopy does the job a notification badge would do elsewhere.
The palette is cream, forest green and sea teal. Cards are soft, labels are small capitals, and the numbers that matter are big.