Respiratory Health
Own the part of sleep no wearable can hear.
Respiratory Health turns the phone you keep by the bed into an overnight listener. It detects snore and cough events, timestamps them, and sets them against the night’s recovery in the morning. Every second of audio is processed on the device and never leaves it. That is a promise the feature has to make before it asks for anything, which is why five screens of education come ahead of the switch. Nobody hands over a microphone for eight hours casually, and leading with the constraint rather than the benefit is what makes the rest believable. I designed it end to end: the education flow, the states of the outer card, the night detail page, the animation that plays when you switch it on, and the evening reminder.
Product Design: Nachiket Palkar · Detection: Sleep Cycle
The microphone first
Five screens come before the switch, and the first one is about the microphone rather than the benefit. Every second of audio is processed on the phone, and none of it is stored or sent anywhere. Nobody hands over a microphone for eight hours casually, so the constraint goes first and the feature comes after it.Filling the wait
Turning it on takes a moment, and the animation is what fills it. It plays once as the feature starts listening, then settles into a quiet resting state it holds all night. Two states, one for the change and one for the hours after it, so the screen is never pretending something is happening when nothing is.The other nights
Most of the work in a feature like this is not the good night, it is the other nights. The microphone switched off. A first night with no baseline to compare against. A night so quiet there is nothing to report. One card has to resolve into each of them, and every state was drawn as a real destination rather than an absence. A card that only looks right when it has data to show is a card that looks broken most of the time.
The night end to end
The detail page lays the night out end to end. Snore and cough events sit on a timeline where they actually happened, so a bad stretch at 3am reads as a bad stretch at 3am rather than as a total. The night’s recovery sits underneath it, because the point is not how much you snored. It is what it cost you.
Asked before bed
The reminder is an evening thing, not a morning one. It asks once, before bed, while putting the phone somewhere it can hear is still a decision you can make. A notification the next morning would only tell you about a night you could no longer do anything about.