Simple Habit Wins 2018 Google Material Design Award for Best Experience
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Simple Habit, the leading daily stress relief platform for busy people, has been named the 2018 winner of the Google Material Design Award for Best Experience. The Best Experience Award is the award recognizing creative and effective deployment of interaction, navigation and content in service of an impactful user experience:
Learning how to slow down and de-stress requires an equally tranquil interface; from first tap, Simple Habit Meditation opens up with an easy onboarding experience --which employs color-coded, selectable image cards to support the calming, purposeful navigation. It uses a dark theme effectively, with cool implementation of cards and bottom navigation, branded typography, and subtle motion cues across mobile devices and tablets.
"We're honored that Simple Habit is recognized as a best-in-class platform by Google for a second time this year," says Yunha Kim, Founder and CEO of Simple Habit. "At Simple Habit, we are committed to helping people live better every day. We offer a library of more than 1,500 short meditations and audio therapy sessions from world-class experts. As we continue to expand our content library, it's imperative that Simple Habit users are able to quickly and effortlessly find the perfect meditation to reduce daily stress or overcome whatever situation they may be facing."
The Google Play Awards celebrate achievements across nine categories. The Material Design Awards honor the product teams that bring the Material platform to life. These best-in-class examples showcase the flexibility of Google's adaptable design system by making it uniquely their own across four distinct categories - innovation, expression, experience and adaptation. The winners were selected from hundreds of open nominations and will be honored at SPAN Helsinki on November 1st.
"Listeners use Simple Habit to deal with a variety of problems that strongly affect their experience of everyday life," adds Valentin Drown, Lead Product Designer of Simple Habit. "When designing the app, our goal was to build an intuitive navigation experience that allows users to quickly and easily discover the right meditations for their particular situation or problem. Now, thousands of meditations by hundreds of teachers are easily accessible in a minimal number of touches."
Simple Habit graduated from Y Combinator in 2016. The platform has since disrupted the meditation and mental wellness industries by creating a market for stressed-out people to discover bite size meditations and connect with world-class experts. Simple Habit has helped more than 1.7 million people learn to meditate, with an average of 25,000 new users joining the platform every week. Simple Habit was featured on season 9 of Shark Tank, is the #1 ranked meditation app in iTunes and received the 2018 Google Play Award for Best Well-Being App.
About Simple Habit
Simple Habit makes reducing stress as easy as 5-minutes a day. Busy people rely on short meditations and audio therapy sessions from world-class experts to reduce daily stress. With more than 1,500 sessions based on situations like sleeping, morning anxiety and lack of focus and features like "on-the-go" and "SOS", Simple Habit offers a practical solution for modern lifestyles. Founded in 2016, Simple Habit is now the #1 rated meditation app in the App store and boasts 37,000 five-star reviews. With headquarters in San Francisco, Simple Habit is backed by Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and other prominent CEOs in Silicon Valley including Dropbox's CEO Drew Houston and Gusto's CEO Joshua Reeves. Download Simple Habit for free on iOS or Android or visit http://www.simplehabit.com to learn more.
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