Hey everyone!
We were tired of waiting for our meditations app to load so we decided to make a simple iPhone app where you just ask Siri for “SelfMonk” and you start meditating in less than 4 seconds.
We made it in 7 days and we want to improve it with a group of people who are passionate about meditation and love their Airpods, if you want to help us with feedback please write to us at hernanaracenachirinos@gmail.com or let us know what you think in a comment
thanks!!!
@rrhoover
Hey Ryan, this is a very good question, the process was focused on making the app as fast as possible and to do it, we worked in 3 parts: the name/command, the loading times and the voice.
The Name/Command: It was really important that with a simple command Siri could start the meditation for us. So we tried 50 different names until we found one that was easy to pronounce and for Siri to understand.
Loading times: Whenever you tell Siri a command you expect an immediate answer. If you get silence it would feel like something went wrong. In order to accomplish this level of responsiveness, we download tomorrow’s session while you are meditating.
The Voice: In an app where the voice is the “interface” we needed to make sure that it provides the right feeling. To get the right one, we tried around 9 different voices with the same meditation until we found one that wasn’t distracting us from the meditation. We listened to it for 3 days and made the decision that the current voice was the right one for us.
Ultimately it came down to try the app ourselves a lot and see how it felt, we had a total of 63 iterations in 7 days.
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I really love this meditation app over other ones that I've tried cause I recently got the Airpods and it works so flawlessly :)
Pros:It just works
Cons:Could have an easy way to log meditation stats