Pace of Mind

iOS App · 2025 · Solo Project · Swift Student Challenge 2025

Emotional intelligence meets task management

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The Challenge

Our emotions are important signals of our mental health, warning us when it’s time to slow down. Yet, many of us ignore them to keep up with our to-do lists.


For women especially, daily feelings are influenced by factors like hormonal cycles, seasons, sleep, relationships, and energy levels. Noticing and understanding these factors empowers self-awareness and enables task management that aligns with your actual capacity, supporting overall well-being.

The Solution

Pace of Mind flips the productivity paradigm: instead of fighting against your emotional state, it helps you plan around it. By selecting your current season, cycle phase, and workload, the app’s emotion calculator generates personalized task recommendations tailored to your real capacity.


The core interaction is a draggable wheel built entirely in SpriteKit. Users spin three concentric rings—season, cycle phase, and workload—each snapping into place with haptic feedback. The combination feeds into the emotion calculator, producing one of four states: bored, calm, happy, or stressed. The scene reacts instantly, updating background color, wave animation, character expression, and guidance message in real time.

Key Features & Technical Highlights

Draggable SpriteKit Wheel

Custom SKNode rings rotate independently, snap to discrete positions, and respond to touch.

Emotion Calculator

Combines season, cycle phase, and workload into energy points mapped to four emotional states.

Reactive Scene

Background, wave, character, and message update simultaneously with emotion changes.

Contextual Haptics

Touch feedback for ring snaps; heavy impact triggers when stressed.

Personalized Insights

Each state displays practical task management guidance.

SwiftUI + SpriteKit

Interactive scene embedded in SwiftUI for declarative layout with fine-grained animation control.

About This Project

Tools & Technologies

SwiftUI SpriteKit Xcode Affinity Designer Figma Git GitHub

Development

Luana Rafaela Gerber

Luana Gerber

Design & Development

Open Source Project

Explore the code to see my approach to SwiftUI and SpriteKit,
with clean architecture and real-time interactive scenes.