Daily Bloom: a habit tracker that doesn’t guilt-trip you

The idea

Streak-based trackers create anxiety: miss one day and your 60-day chain dies. Research on habit formation suggests self-compassion beats shame for long-term consistency. Daily Bloom replaces streaks with a growing garden — each habit is a plant that flowers with care and simply rests (never dies) when you skip a day.

The mini design system

The real goal of this project was practicing design-system craft on something small:

• Tokens first: color, spacing, and radius defined as Figma variables with a light/dark mode pair
• Type scale: a 5-step modular scale with usage rules documented beside each style
• Components: habit cards, progress “petals,” buttons, and inputs built with variants and auto layout — every screen assembled only from library components
• Motion principles: growth animations documented as guidelines (duration, easing, when not to animate)

What I learned

Working tokens-first slowed down day one and sped up every day after. When I changed the accent color late in the project, every screen updated in seconds — the same lesson I saw at GDS scale, proven on a personal project.