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01 · App + website

Vaeli

An app that runs the day — and the site that explains it.

Role
Design, code
Year
2026
Stack
React Native · Cloudflare Workers
Link
vaeli.uk ↗
vaeli.uk
vaeli.uk home page: a phone showing the Vaeli day screen over a dithered dark landscape

The task

The app’s whole idea is that it writes to you first. The site had to show that happening, not describe it.

Decisions

  1. 01

    Show the behaviour, not the feature list

    A phone is pinned in place and the conversation plays out as the page scrolls. The limits — how often it may write, when it goes quiet — are printed on plates beside it, as facts.

    real sections, shot whole

    vaeli.uk · It writes first
    A pinned phone on vaeli.uk with a message from the app, and plates beside it stating its limits
  2. 02

    A photo of a timetable becomes a day

    Three steps in one frame: the photographed timetable, the lessons read from it, the dial with every block placed. The dial is dithered like the landscape in the hero, so the site keeps one way of drawing.

    vaeli.uk · Timetable
    Three steps on vaeli.uk: a photographed timetable, the list of lessons read from it, and a dithered dial with the blocks placed
  3. 03

    The rule is the headline

    “Revise after 1, 3, 7 and 21 days.” The heading states the intervals outright, and the diagram under it carries a real topic up the ladder instead of a placeholder.

    vaeli.uk · Memory
    The memory section of vaeli.uk: the heading “Revise after 1, 3, 7 and 21 days” over a ladder diagram with a history topic on it
  4. 04

    An assistant has to be seen asking

    Software that edits your day is only trusted if it asks first. The section shows one proposal card with two buttons, Apply and Cancel, under the promise itself: nothing changes until you confirm it.

    vaeli.uk · Confirm
    A proposal card on vaeli.uk with Apply and Cancel buttons under the heading “Nothing changes until you confirm it”
  5. 05

    Zeros, set large

    Four plates: 0 adverts, 0 trackers, 0 third-party requests, 2 taps to delete everything. The cut corner is Vaeli’s own mark, and even the fonts are served from the same domain, so the third zero can be checked.

    vaeli.uk · Privacy
    Four chamfered plates on vaeli.uk reading 0 adverts, 0 trackers on this page, 0 third-party requests and 2 taps to delete it all

Its own system

One accent. A second one is left out on purpose.

Palette

  • ink#0a0a0b
  • surface#17171a
  • line#2e2e34
  • muted#8e8e98
  • text#f0f0f2
  • paper#f2f0eb
  • signal#e5484d

Type

Zodiak
Site, display serif
Supreme
Site, text
Unbounded
App, display
Archivo
App, text
JetBrains Mono
App, figures and labels

Desk and hand

vaeli.uk
vaeli.uk on a desktop screen
vaeli.uk
vaeli.uk on a phone

Where it stands

The app is on Android in closed testing. The site is live.

Let’s build it.

Tell me what you need — I read every message and answer myself.

Or write directly

hello@dmitrydesign.org

A few lines is enough: what it is, who it is for, when you need it.

Start a project

What are we building?

Pick everything that applies.

What budget are you working with?

Rough is fine. Typical ranges are on the pricing page.

When do you need it?

Optional

Anything I should look at?

Optional. Your current site, references, a document. Press Enter after each link, up to five.

    Tell me the rest

    A few lines is enough: what it is, who it is for, when you need it.