01
No red alarms.
The app shows stress in warm orange and calm in teal. Never warning red.
Recovery gets its own state: a gradient from orange back to teal. Bouncing back quickly is a sign of resilience, so that is the moment the app celebrates.
02
One face for the AI assistant.
An animated orb, like Siri's, represents the assistant in chat, in voice and on desktop. It shows when it's listening, thinking and speaking, and it changes shape when you're stressed.
It tells you which data it used, like your calendar or heart rate variability, and asks before it acts.
Before
The current In Truth app. Screenshots to come.
What didn't work
Three directions were cut first.
A particle effect, a stardust field and a Zen brush circle were each built and reviewed.
All three looked good. None showed calm or stressed at a glance, so the orb won.