still
Most wellness apps ask you how you feel. still started from a different question: what if your body already knows, and you just can't hear it yet? We wanted to make the invisible visible, without ever asking you to name what you feel.
Researched the psychophysiology of stress, then mapped user flows across the iPhone and Watch surfaces.
Two signals go missing under stress, and no existing tool catches either of them.
The 60 to 90 second pre-conscious escalation window, where the body is already responding before the mind has caught up.
Baseline drift over months: the nervous system's slow upward creep that's invisible from the inside.
- The first is the spike. There's a 60 to 90 second gap between when your body starts escalating and when your conscious mind catches up. By the time you realize something is wrong, you're already in it.
- The second is the drift. Under chronic stress, your nervous system's resting state creeps upward so gradually you adapt to it in real time. Your calm today looks like your stress did in September, and you can't feel the difference from the inside.
Colour tokens, typography, and the water metaphor applied across surfaces.