Still Here App: Cozy Focus Experience Design
Halle Clark
Verified
Still Here — Cozy Focus App Designed & Built with Figma, Figma Make, and Supabase
Project Overview
Client: Personal / Competition Project
Role: Product Designer, UI Designer, Frontend Developer, Creative Director
Tools: Figma, Figma Make, Supabase, React, TypeScript
Project Type: Focus app, productivity tool, emotional wellness product
Still Here is a cozy focus app designed to help users start tasks when they feel overwhelmed, distracted, or stuck. Instead of treating productivity like a performance metric, Still Here creates a calming digital room where users can choose a vibe, settle in with a small companion, break a task into tiny steps, and simply begin.
The goal was to design and develop an experience that felt gentle, emotionally supportive, and visually memorable while still functioning as a practical task-completion tool.
The Challenge
Most productivity apps are built around pressure: streaks, timers, rigid systems, dashboards, and the constant feeling that you are behind.
But for people with ADHD, anxiety, burnout, executive dysfunction, or task avoidance, the hardest part is often not finishing the task. It is starting.
Still Here was created around one core question:
What would a productivity app feel like if it helped you feel less alone instead of more behind?
The challenge was to build an app that could:
Help users start overwhelming tasks
Break large tasks into tiny, approachable steps
Create a calming environment without becoming distracting
Use visual design as part of the emotional experience
Feel soft, cute, and cozy while still being functional
Support focus without making productivity feel clinical or shame-based
The Solution: A Cozy Room for Completing Tasks
Still Here turns task management into a calming, room-based focus session.
Users begin by typing one task, whether it is big, tiny, messy, or overdue. The app then helps break that task into small steps. From there, users choose a cozy room, customize their avatar and companion, and enter a focus space designed around gentle momentum.
The app includes:
A task entry flow with warm, low-pressure copy
Tiny step breakdowns to reduce overwhelm
A room selection experience based on mood and task energy
Custom avatars and glowing orb companions
Ambient room audio, music, and companion sounds
A live focus session with timer and progress tracking
A session summary that celebrates starting, not perfection
Supabase-backed session saving and private room links
The experience is built around one emotional promise:
You don't have to do it all. You just have to start.
Design Direction
The visual direction for Still Here was intentionally cozy, nostalgic, and emotionally safe. I wanted the app to feel like a little digital hideaway rather than a traditional productivity dashboard.
The interface uses a dark navy base, soft lavender accents, warm cream typography, glowing buttons, and illustrated pixel-style room scenes. Each room has its own personality, but the overall experience stays cohesive through consistent cards, rounded panels, gentle lighting, and soft microcopy.
The main design goals were:
Create a calm, immersive environment
Make productivity feel less intimidating
Use rooms and companions to create emotional presence
Keep the interface clear and easy to navigate
Balance cute visual storytelling with real functionality
Make the app feel polished enough for a live product demo
Key Features
1. Task Entry
The home screen starts with one simple question:
What task are we tackling today?
Instead of a full dashboard or complicated onboarding, the user is immediately invited to write down the thing they're avoiding. The design intentionally keeps the first step simple so users do not have to make too many decisions before starting.
The copy reinforces the emotional tone of the product:
Big, tiny, messy, overdue — whatever it is. We’ll just help you start.
2. Tiny Step Breakdown
After entering a task, the app turns it into a set of tiny steps. This helps reduce the friction of starting and gives the user a clear path forward without making the task feel too large.
For example, “Write a finance article” can become:
Outline
Research
Write
Edit
Inside the session, users can complete steps, rename them, and add new ones as needed.
3. Room Selection
Users can choose a room based on the energy they need for the task. Each room includes its own visual environment, tags, default sound, and use case.
Rooms include:
Rainy Window Desk
Coffee Shop Corner
Bookstore Cafe
Laundry Buddy Room
Hotel Lobby Lounge
Soft Reset Room
This makes the app feel more personal than a standard timer. The user is not just starting a session. They are choosing the kind of atmosphere they want to work inside.
4. Avatar and Companion Customization
Still Here includes a customization screen where users choose an avatar and a small companion. The companion creates the feeling of quiet presence without becoming a chatbot or distraction.
The idea was inspired by body doubling: the feeling that having someone nearby can make it easier to start and stay with a task.
Companions include soft glowing orbs like:
Warm Lamp Orb
Bright Moon Orb
These small design choices help the app feel gentle, imaginative, and emotionally supportive.
5. Immersive Focus Room
The focus room is the heart of the app.
Once inside, the user sees their selected room, avatar, companion, current task, timer, audio controls, and tiny steps. The layout is designed to feel like a command center, but softer and calmer.
The session screen includes:
Current task
Focus timer
Room audio controls
Ambience, music, and companion sound
Selected room details
Current tiny step
Step checklist
Save room option
End session flow
The goal was to keep the user grounded in the task while making the environment feel rewarding enough to return to.
6. Session Summary
At the end of a session, Still Here does not shame the user for what they did not finish. Instead, it celebrates the fact that they started.
The summary screen highlights:
Task
Focus time
Tiny steps completed
Room used
Companion selected
Completed and incomplete steps
The main message is:
You started. That counts.
This was an important product decision because the app is designed for users who may struggle with perfectionism, avoidance, or guilt around unfinished work.
Results & Impact
Still Here became a fully designed and functional focus app that combines productivity, emotional design, and cozy visual storytelling.
The final product includes:
A complete multi-screen app experience
A polished visual identity
Interactive task creation and step tracking
Custom room selection and avatar customization
A live session environment
Focus timer functionality
Session completion summary
Supabase-backed saving structure
A product concept that feels distinct and memorable
More importantly, the app reframes productivity around gentleness instead of pressure. It gives users a place to start, even when they do not feel ready.
Still Here won a $10K design award in the first-ever Figma Makeathon, a competition celebrating creative, functional, and thoughtfully designed products built with Figma Make.
Final Reflection
Still Here was built around a simple belief:
Starting counts. Tiny progress counts. Being here counts.
The app is designed for the moments when a task feels too big, the day feels too heavy, or the user simply needs a softer way in. By combining cozy rooms, tiny steps, gentle audio, and a supportive interface, Still Here creates a focus experience that feels less like productivity software and more like a quiet little place to begin.
Winning a design award in the first-ever Figma Makeathon made the project especially meaningful because it validated the core idea behind Still Here: productivity tools can be useful, functional, and emotionally supportive at the same time.
Here's the live link to the app: https://www.stillheretodo.com/
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Posted Jul 3, 2026
Still Here is a cozy focus app designed and developed with Figma, Figma Make, and Supabase. The app helps users start and complete overwhelming tasks.
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