Product Design / UI / UX / Visual Design

Brightday | Your Virtual Posture Coach

Three years ago, Jens-Peter Jungclaussen along with Richard Gray and Jim Morris started a venture to help people sit and stand better and be more active at their computers. What started out as a simple idea to use the computer’s camera to monitor the user’s posture in 3D and give people little nudges to correct, turned out to be a technical challenge with many hours spent discussing the feasibility of technical solutions, and it became a design challenge to be helpful vs disruptive throughout your day.

The Challenge

Alerting you without being disruptive

• Flexible backend: We went through many iterations and arrived at a solution using Electron which allows us to have a frameless window so the UI looks like it is part of the OS.

• Don’t take up my screen: We minimized the real estate taken up by the UI (transparent) and made sure it completely disappears when you are doing well.

• Don’t take time out of my busy day: The posture is now very simple to set as you good reference posture and we only alert you when you are really getting stuck in an unintended position.

• Why does this not just work: The onboarding is simplified, the analytics of your sessions is usable and detailed.

• I have multiple monitors: You can now use Brightday with multiple monitors even with the camera pointing at you from your laptop in a 40° angle. It took some math but we solved it. 

• Sit or stand comfortably: You find a whole library of instructional videos in Brightday. To help you find your ideal position.

 instructional videos

Let’s adjust your posture

With these professionally produced videos we created a library of assets to help people how to have good posture in any situation.