Religious Notification
Project details
Contribution
UIUX Designer
Sector
E- Commerce
Year
2024
About
Religious Notification is a cross-faith devotional platform. The platform offers daily content for Christians and Muslims.
Role
As Lead UI/UX Designer, I steered the user research, information architecture, high-fidelity prototyping, and developer hand-off. I collaborated with product managers, engineers, and end users to ensure the design met both business and user needs.
Problem
Despite the growing demand for digital spiritual experiences, many individuals struggle to consistently engage with faith-based content due to fragmented resources, complicated onboarding processes, and a lack of personalized and accessible experiences. Existing solutions often fail to provide a unified platform that caters to users' diverse spiritual needs while fostering meaningful community engagement and personal reflection.
Project Goals
1. A combined religious platfrom.
2. Deliver personalized daily spiritual experiences.
3. Ensure Accessibility across multiple platforms
Target audience
1. Devout Christians and Muslims seeking daily spiritual guidance.
2. Community-oriented believers craving group activities and discussions.
3. Individuals focused on personal spiritual growth through mindfulness and journaling.
4. Parents seeking age-appropriate religious content for children.
5. Tech-savvy practitioners who prefer digital platforms for devotionals.
Research and Discovery
My research was gotten mainly from one on one interviews with prospective users across our different target audeiences uncovered a couple of pain points.
One was that most users loved short daily prompts but abandoned sign‑up flows that required account creation.
Another was many prospective users values community but hesitated when group onboarding felt public.
And parents wanted curated children’s content separated from adult devotional feeds. These findings led directly to the decision to offer SMS keywords and web links for frictionless opt‑ins, build a private journaling flow, and segment the home feed by age and content type.
These findings led directly to the decision to offer SMS keywords and web links for frictionless opt‑ins, build a private journaling flow, and segment the home feed by age and content type.
Infromation architecture
Religious Notification was structured to provide users with a simple and personalized spiritual journey.
The platform organizes devotional content, community features, religious resources, and mindfulness tools into clear navigation paths, allowing users to easily access the content most relevant to their faith and daily spiritual practices while ensuring a seamless experience across multiple touchpoints.
Design system
To ensure consistency and speed of iteration I built a lightweight, reusable design system in Figma that included:
Color Tokens
Typography
Spacing & Radius
Component Patterns
Solution
First of all the onboarding experience was simplified with a two‑tap subscription option (Christianity or Islam), The final design for Religious Notification brings all spiritual activities into a single, intuitive home experience that helps users stay consistent in their daily practice.
Users expressed a strong interest in community-based religious activities, many felt uncomfortable joining groups that immediately exposed their participation to others. To address this, I designed a more private and user-controlled community experience. Users can explore groups and religious activities at their own pace before actively participating. The design prioritizes user comfort by allowing individuals to engage with content privately while gradually introducing social and collaborative features.
Research showed that users preferred quick and meaningful daily spiritual interactions rather than navigating through large amounts of content. To support this behaviour, I designed a personalized home experience that prioritizes daily devotionals, inspirational quotes, and scripture passages. By surfacing the most relevant content upfront, users can build a daily spiritual habit without feeling overwhelmed by the platform's extensive offerings.
Parents highlighted the need for religious content tailored specifically for children. Instead of mixing children's resources with adult devotional materials, I introduced content segmentation within the platform. This allows users to easily access age-appropriate music, stories, devotionals, and educational materials for children, creating a safer and more intentional experience for families.
Lastly users wanted a space to practice mindfulness and document their spiritual journey directly on the website. To support this need, I designed a private journaling feature that enables users to reflect on daily devotionals, record prayers, and track their personal growth over time.
Impacts
Onboarding completion was 90%, daily active engagement was about 20%, and community sign‑ups were recoreded. Usability testing also revealed fast task completion, and qualitative feedback highlighted the convenience of SMS opt‑ins and the emotional value of daily reflections. Future plans include gamified tied rewards for users to drive retention and ai for deeper relevance, push notifications for mood‑based prompts, and further expansion of the children’s content suite.
Screens
The final interface balances simplicity and functionality to create a spiritually enriching experience for users. By combining thoughtful information hierarchy, personalized content delivery, and intuitive interactions, the designs encourage users to build consistent spiritual habits while fostering community engagement and personal growth.