Microstep
Blueprint for reaching your goals
Victor Ding & Ilya Hakobyan
2025 - 2026
Ongoing
Product/Branding/Visual
Background
People care deeply about self-development but struggle to feel their own progress to develop a sense of achievement.
The methodology for that can be micro-routines to reduces noise and show visible progress. This breaks goals into believable steps, and makes progress feel tangible for the users.
Opportunity
Long-term goals are increasingly difficult to sustain in modern society. Not because people don’t care, but because the environment works against them.
Challenge
Approach
Mapping the full flow, from capacity check to focused session to proof to recap, and marked every spot where AI acts. We defined inputs the agent reads: progress checks, completion frequency, and mood. We defined decisions the agent returns: encouragement style, session length, and cadence updates tied to a long-term goal. The UI stays simple and non-chat while the LLM runs in the background.
Approach
Microstep AI is designed to help people move forward safely, ethically, and sustainably, not to optimize harm, shortcuts, or extreme outcomes.
Home
All you see is your current milestones as stacked cards and two areas you can interact with. The bottom area while tap & holding pops up three circles(that's the affordance) wich give you three options. Take a photo of something you did, voice chat anything or attach a photo of a task u completed.
Daily Mood Check
On open you pick Low, Medium, or High. That choice sets today’s session length and adjusts milestones. The AI agent that's connected would do the analysing in the background based on your habits, goal, time management and inputs to give you the most realistic milestone of the day.
Focus Mode
A clean progress bar that shows your milestones of the day that also acts as a timer.
Calendar
The upper area that hase the date pulls up a calendar on tap that will also have your daily progress and mood showcased in colors.
Identity
Typography
Ivory
Ivory
SF Compact
Components
Design System
Feedback & Refinements
This project is actively evolving as Ilya and I continue to design and build the app together using SwiftUI and Cursor. Our collaboration focuses on translating interaction concepts into real, working systems—iterating closely between design decisions and implementation constraints.
We are currently expanding core features, refining interaction behaviors, and validating design assumptions directly through code. A brief preview of our current progress is shown above, with additional functionality and refinements planned as development continues.
