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Widgets that say nothing out loud

Four families, one visit countdown, and a rule we never break: the lock screen tells you something arrived, never what it said.

Sasha Lindqvist
· 6 min read
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A lock screen is a public surface. Everything Adoring puts there is written as if a stranger on a train is reading it, because one probably is.

The rule

The widget says something arrived. It never says what.

Something from Ken is waiting. is the most a notification will ever tell you, and it is the same string whether the letter is two lines or two pages.

The four families

Family Surface Shows
Today Home screen Whether the prompt is open, and whose turn it is
Together Home screen Two clocks, and when location was last updated
Lovebox Lock screen That something arrived
Visit Live Activity Time to landing, and nothing else

Four families plus the visit countdown Live Activity.

Discreet by default is not a privacy setting. It is the only setting.

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Sasha Lindqvist

Talks to the couples who use Adoring and turns what they say into things we can build. Based in Stockholm, usually in transit.

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