Sleepie : Your journey to better sleep starts here.

Sleepie : Your journey to better sleep starts here.

Sleepie

Sleepie

Sleepie

Know your sleep cycles, connect with tailored recommendations, and let us transform your nights.

Know your sleep cycles, connect with tailored recommendations, and let us transform your nights.

Know your sleep cycles, connect with tailored recommendations, and let us transform your nights.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Design systems

mental health

meantal health

Challenges faced

In today's fast-paced world, quality sleep is often the first thing sacrificed, resulting in widespread sleep disturbances, elevated stress levels, and irregular routines that significantly impact overall well-being. Millions struggle with the fundamental aspects of sleep: falling asleep, staying asleep throughout the night, and waking up feeling refreshed and ready to face the day. This chronic lack of restorative sleep can have profound consequences, affecting everything from mood and cognitive function to physical health and daily performance.

Solution

Sleepie, an innovative sleep music app, offers a holistic and comprehensive solution to the widespread problem of poor sleep. It achieves this by artfully combining three powerful elements: carefully curated soothing sleep sounds designed to lull you into a peaceful slumber, expertly guided meditations that help calm the mind and release the stresses of the day, and advanced sleep tracking technology that provides valuable insights into your individual sleep patterns. This unique combination works synergistically to enhance sleep quality, promote deep, restorative sleep, and ultimately improve your overall physical health, mental clarity, and sense of well-being.

Ideation & Research

When conceptualizing Sleepie, I started by researching common sleep issues and existing digital solutions. While numerous sleep aid apps exist, I noticed that most either focus solely on sleep tracking or provide generic sleep sounds. Few platforms offer a truly integrated approach, addressing both the physical and psychological aspects of sleep.

Through user research and feedback, I identified key pain points that needed to be addressed:

  • Difficulty falling asleep due to stress or anxiety

  • Lack of customizable sleep experiences tailored to individual preferences

  • Limited insights into REM cycles and sleep patterns

  • Absence of guided relaxation techniques to help users unwind before bed

  • Inaccessible or overly complex interfaces making it hard for users to build a routine

With these insights, I set out to create Sleepieβ€”an app that not only helps users sleep better but also adapts to their unique sleep needs.

My figma pad for this product

My design process

My design process for Sleepie was grounded in ease of use, personalization, and scientific backing. I began by focusing on how to seamlessly integrate the app into users' nighttime routines, so I conducted extensive wireframing and user testing. I thought it was crucial to understand individual sleep challenges, so I designed an onboarding process that includes a quick sleep assessment. Based on the user's responses, I implemented a personalization feature that provides tailored recommendations. I also wanted users to understand their sleep patterns, so I included advanced sleep tracking that monitors sleep cycles, REM phases, and circadian rhythms, and then generates detailed reports with personalized suggestions. To help users relax before sleep, I incorporated a range of guided meditation and hypnosis sessions, varying in length from 5-minute quick relaxations to 60-minute deep sleep journeys. I knew that sound was important for sleep, so I created customizable sleep soundscapes where users can mix nature sounds, white noise, calming music, and ASMR to create their ideal sleep environment. And finally, to ensure users wake up refreshed, I designed a smart alarm with a gentle wake-up mode that triggers at the optimal sleep cycle phase. Throughout the entire process, I continuously refined the user flow, making sure that each feature complements the others for a seamless and intuitive sleep-enhancing experience.

ONBOARDING SCREENS

GETTING STARTED

HOME SCREENS

CREATE YOUR SLEEPING SCHEDULES

CREATE YOUR MUSIC ALBUM

Credits

Closing Thoughts

Sleepie is a personalized sleep companion, evolving through user feedback from basic tracking and sounds to a holistic sleep ecosystem including guided relaxation, meditation, and personalized insights. The project highlighted the importance of iteration in design. Sleepie's mission is to make sleep restorative and enjoyable, empowering users to sleep better, live healthier, and wake refreshed.

WORK INVOLVED

Product Design

Design Systems

User Research

Mental Health

API integration

Tools

Figma

Balsamiq

Miro

team

Design

Ishika Dixit

Motion

Ishika Dixit

Research

Ishika Dixit

Writing

Ishika Dixit

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