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08/01/2024

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Rise app, on the App Store!

The We Believe Foundation came to us over a year ago with a vision for a youth centered app to help them create good spiritual habits and connect to God each day. We build a lot of business focused apps so it is fun for us to work on something I know a lot my less techy peers might find more interesting. We’re immensely proud of the effort put in by our design, mobile development, and backend development teams. The Rise app is designed to help young people develop better habits with technology, especially by applying LDS gospel principles.

**Key Features of Rise**

- Daily video content from peers, focusing on direct experiences rather than preaching.
- Mindfulness and mental health features aimed at helping kids have alternative outlets to social media scrolling.
- Tools to build daily habits like meditation, prayer, and keeping commitments.
- Gamification elements to make habit-building fun and engaging.
- Upcoming features include a daily trivia game, more peer interactions, and an expanded video library.
- An Android version is on the way with additional functionalities.
- Since launch it has 4700 downloads and ranks #38 in the reference category.
- Only two app crashes since then 😅

We would love your support— download the app and leave us a review!

Download here: [Rise on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/risexp/id6471266499)

We drew inspiration from apps like Duolingo and Headspace, incorporating modern and relevant content with cool features like haptic feedback, home screen widgets, and a fancy stats backend.

We were super happy to have the We Believe Foundation ask us to help on this project. We hope Rise will provide a positive source for of content for youth that isn’t laced with traditional social media content.

09/23/2016

"Why Your Developers Are Grumpy"

04/22/2016

A good article about anticipatory design: http://ow.ly/4mUtIA

The next big move in design: making and executing decisions for users.

04/21/2016

Really awesome article: http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps.html Bots won't replace apps, better apps will replace apps.

Why conversational UI fails in practice and what the West can really learn from Asian messaging apps.

04/21/2016

A/B testing can be overkill on most websites. http://ow.ly/4mUt9z We have found a lot of this article to be true.

A/B testing has multiple hidden costs and we decided to mostly stop a/b testing for 6 reasons.

04/20/2016

I'm not sure how that would be designing with multiple people in the same document, but they have some cool ideas. They completely re-thought the pen tool. I really want to try it. Check it out: http://ow.ly/4mUtSG

Before I co-founded Figma my background was in game development, not in design. I remember being very surprised when I f…

01/27/2016

New website is up! Some fun facts about our new site:
- All of the colors on the homepage change using CSS animations
- It is developed and hosted on a legit new service developed in-house: http://zab.io
- It was redesigned three times (dang designers)
- It runs slower on Safari.. we'll fix that later :)
- Our new brand is technically just black and white, with whatever color we want to add to it

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07/28/2015

We challenged each other to design a music player. You can check out the entries here. https://dribbble.com/builtbyhq/projects/300215-HQ-Music-Player-Challenge

The world needs more music player app designs, right? This is just for a fun little weekend design challenge at HQ. Check out Jeff's and the rest of the team...

06/16/2015

We went paintballing and had a blast!

09/30/2014

Jeff Smith has been working on an exercise app that has a zombie mode. Check out his Dribbble shot.
https://dribbble.com/shots/1746594-Zombie-Game-Product-Site

For a class, I am creating a game called Run For Your Life. It is a fitness game app based off of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). I currently have a simple prototype of the first game mo...

09/16/2014

Be boring: http://blog.capwatkins.com/the-boring-designer

Whenever I’m looking at a product designer’s work, I find myself continuously asking the same question: which solution is the boring one? Maybe it’s born out of seeing apps choose flash over function, or trying to understand just... | Cap Watkins | Sr. Product Design Manager at Etsy. Formerly at Ama…

08/26/2014

Family portraits for upcoming site redesign: http://instagram.com/p/sJbGUUtoZ9