Personal product, 2026
Product, design and build
Sama
A quiet reminder app for my own day, designed on paper before a line of it existed.
In development
A personal wellness app built to solve my own problem: a desk-bound day with no reliable shape to it. It nudges rather than nags — drinking water, resting the eyes, taking a break, and the handful of daily anchors the day actually hangs on.
The interesting part is not the code, it is that the product was designed before it was built: a persona, a requirements document, a design system with its own token file, wireframes and flows, an implementation plan, and a research file recording what each design claim rests on, including the claims the evidence overturned. There is a clickable prototype of the two core screens.
What it does
- Scheduled daily reminders for water, eye rest and breaks
- A single Today screen and a quick-log flow, rather than a checklist of everything
- Onboarding that sets a wake time and picks only the habits worth starting with
- No red missed-state and no streak reset, by design
Engineering notes
- A six-document product set written before implementation: persona, requirements, design system, flows, implementation plan and research
- Design decisions traced to evidence, including the ones the evidence overturned
- A clickable prototype of the two core screens before the app existed
- Reminders scheduled locally on the device, so the app needs no server at all
Walkthrough
The app running on a phone: logging the day, progress, and the settings behind it.
