Minimalist Good News App

Several years ago I had the pleasure of working on a project where people could share their stories; things that God had done in their lives. The team behind the app wanted a minimal style with an Instagram-like user experience. I designed the end-to-end user journey.

Onboarding

We introduced the app to new users in a pretty standard way, but we wanted to introduce people to a certain language...set the tone for what they were about to experience.

Discovery and Search

We wanted to give people several avenues where they might be able to wrap their head around all that God is doing in the world today.

Sharing a Story

We wanted to give people room to tell their full story, not just a snippet that goes with a photo. Also, this space of sharing the miraculous can carry with it a lot of room for doubt. We wanted to give people some tools to ground their story in tangible things like date, location, eye witnesses and more. Then one of my favorite features was a way to post private stories; a way to catalog things that God has done in your life, but keep them secret, keep them safe.

My Story

Interestingly enough, for a few years leading up to this project I was working on a similar passion project of my own. One day I happened to be sitting next to the lead app developer in a coffee shop while he was designing an interim website for this project. We struck up a conversation where he shared with me that he was putting a team together to develop this app, my dream project app. I pitched him, and when they chose me it became my story of something good and meaningful that God had done in my life. When the app finally launched, I shared that God on my feed. It was really amazing.