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Brethwork
Overview
Breth builds on a simple challenge: while breathing exercises are widely understood to support stress regulation and focus, they’re often difficult to follow, remember, and maintain in practice. Like any routine, consistency and accountability matter.
I researched existing techniques and turned them into experiences that feel intuitive and easy to use. The experience is built around three synchronized forms of guidance: visuals, audio, and haptic vibrations.
After performing a baseline to analyze your breathing capabilities, each form of guidance synchronizes to reinforce the rhythm of your breath. One of my goals was to ensure each form of guidance could also function independently depending on user preference and context. Together, they create a flexible, multi-sensory system that helps users stay present, whether they’re looking for calm, focus, or a reset.
A glowing sphere anchors every exercise. Providing a simple, recognizable focal point that’s easy to follow across different breathing patterns.
Each breathing pathway includes an interior space for written cues, reinforcing timing and instruction without interrupting the flow of the experience.
Exercises follow a ruleset - upwards movement for inhales, horizontal for holds, and downwards for exhales.
Guiding the shift
As the sphere moves through each phase of breath, it gently crosses a boundary - marking the transition from inhale to hold to exhale. A subtle shift in shadow creates a sense of direction, a quiet signal that something has changed.
Paired with synchronized haptics and sound, this moment becomes more than visual. It’s felt, heard, and seen all at once. Guiding without needing to think.
Splash Screen
A subtle glow radiates from the “b,” introducing haptic feedback as the core of the experience as the app is opened.
Onboarding
I designed the onboarding to use clear, progressively disclosed animation and text to guide setup seamlessly leading into breth’s first baseline activity.
Baseline
Breathing Baseline assesses breathing capacity through a two-minute exercise. A glowing sphere traces the brandmark’s path, acting as a visual timer while the device measures each breath.
Results
Baseline results produce an Inex score (short for inhale/exhale) - the maximum comfortable duration for inhales, exhales, or holds. Ensuring every exercise stays within your control.
Breathing exercises
Each exercise begins with a neutral grey path that gradually fills with color as you inhale and hold. As you exhale, the colour recedes - visually reinforcing the feeling of full and empty lungs.
The guidance visuals follow a simple, consistent system: upward movement for inhales, horizontal for holds, and downward for exhales.
Every shape is designed to mirror the motion and rhythm of the exercise, tracing a path your finger could follow to intuitively understand both sequence and timing.
Each exercise was designed to sit within a cohesive system, while remaining distinct, intuitive, and easy to recognize.
Breth syncs devices for connected stress relief.
Synchronized breathing
Synchronized sessions bring people into the same rhythm. Through testing, parents, teachers, and partners consistently expressed a desire to share breathwork - whether helping a child settle, or unwinding together after a workout. In response, breth was designed to make shared sessions frictionless. When multiple devices are powered on, the option to begin a synchronized experience appears seamlessly at the start of any activity.
This foundation also opened the door to guided group sessions. Partnering with local yoga and mindfulness studios, breth supports instructor-led experiences where up to 15 devices can connect simultaneously - bringing entire rooms into a shared rhythm of breath and calm.
Offline mode
Not every moment of calm should come with a screen. Breth was designed to let you step away from your phone and stay fully present - guided entirely through haptics. Whether you’re doing a few minutes of breathing exercises after a workout, resetting between meetings, getting ready for bed or simply don’t have your phone nearby, the experience remains seamless.
With screenfree sessions, you can preload your favorite activities, choose a duration, and access them directly from your device by long-holding or double clicking the button. Three pulses indicate the start of the activity (ding-ding-ding), and your preloaded activity begins.
Screenfree sessions were introduced to provide haptic guided stress relief without being tethered to your phone.
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