Snapshot

Challenge

Catholics and travelers often rely on fragmented apps and websites for prayer tools, calendar guidance, fasting support, and nearby places of prayer. Many alternatives gate core features behind paywalls or ad-heavy experiences.

Objective

Build a free Catholic guide that brings prayer tools, an ecclesiastical calendar, important events, fasting tracking, and local prayer-site discovery into one coherent experience.

Product Direction

• Designed FINDPRAYER as a free-first Catholic companion with no paywalled core tools.
• Focused the core experience on high-frequency spiritual routines and practical travel support.
• Unified calendar guidance, fasting tracking, and nearby site discovery into one mobile flow.

Design Constraints

• Delivered from concept to prototype in 2 weeks.
• Designed and developed solo.
• Prioritized beta-ready core modules over broader feature expansion.

Key UX Decisions

• Organized the experience around immediate intents: check calendar, track fasting, and find nearby prayer sites.
• Kept interaction flows concise so users can complete key actions quickly during daily routines or while traveling.
• Used calm, readable visual hierarchy to support trust and clarity in faith-focused contexts.

System Decisions

• Structured the app around modular feature lanes so each tool can evolve without redesigning the entire product.
• Prioritized one-thumb interaction patterns for fast mobile usage.
• Kept feature architecture ready for beta testing and iterative expansion.

Current Development Signals

• Establishes a fully free, ad-light Catholic companion centered on practical daily use.
• Reduces tool fragmentation by combining core faith and discovery workflows in one product.
• Creates a clearer path for both regular users and travelers to access essential prayer context quickly.

Beta Readiness

• Ecclesiastical calendar is ready for beta testing.
• Fasting tracker is ready for beta testing.
• Nearby prayer site finder is ready for beta testing.

V1 Scope Decisions

• Focused v1 on the most practical core flows first: calendar, fasting, and site finding.
• Deferred broader expansion so beta can validate the highest-frequency user needs first.

Build Notes

• Delivered concept-to-prototype in 2 weeks as a solo design and development effort.
• Built the current prototype as a stable base for iterative testing and feature refinement.

Next Phase

• Run beta testing on calendar, fasting, and site-finder workflows.
• Use beta feedback to refine remaining companion features before wider release.