Mobile application (00-3)
Solace: a sleep app that treats rest as a practice
23:12
Wednesday nightGood evening, June
81Sleep score
7 h 12 m last night · bedtime in 48 min
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Wind downTonight
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Body scan for sleep
Meditation · 12 min
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Rain on a tin roof
Soundscape · endless
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The Lighthouse Keeper
Sleep story · 24 min
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23:40
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Rain on a tin roof
Soundscape · mixed with brown noise
12:48 elapsed45:00
15 min45 minAll night
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7:05
Good morning
You slept 7 h 41 m · score 84▲ +3 vs avg
23:523:407:33
Awake REM Light Deep
23:52Fell asleep
1 h 58 mDeep sleep
2×Woke up
52 bpmResting heart rate
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Your deep sleep grows on nights you start winding down before midnight. Tonight’s suggested bedtime: 23:30.
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About the project
Solace is a sleep and meditation app for people whose days end too late. It combines an evening wind-down ritual, generative soundscapes, and morning sleep reports in one quiet product.
The design premise: a sleep app is used in the dark, at arm’s length, by a tired person. So: deep indigo surfaces, one lilac accent, big type, no noise.
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What we designed
- /01A “Tonight” home built around one score and one ritual, not a catalog of ten thousand meditations.
- /02A player reduced to a breathing light orb, a sleep timer, and controls big enough to hit with eyes closed.
- /03A morning report that shows sleep stages as a calm hypnogram and ends with a single actionable tip, not a data dump.
- /04Night-first visual system: indigo gradients, low-contrast secondary text, and nothing bright enough to wake you up.
Key decisions(03)
One ritualThree wind-down items per night, chosen for you
Dark-firstDesigned for midnight use at minimum brightness
Orb playerA breathing light instead of album art and menus
One tipEach morning report ends in a single next action
A sleep app succeeds when you stop looking at it, and it keeps working.