Elysium AI

Elysium AI is an AI-powered life coaching application designed to help users achieve balance in their daily lives.

Client

Elysium AI

Industry

Astrology

Service

Product Design

Year

2025

Project Context

The Problem

Most life coaching and self-improvement apps today push users toward one of two extremes. They either overwhelm them with constant notifications and tasks, or focus on isolated aspects of life while ignoring broader context. Instead of guidance, this often creates pressure and disengagement.

In addition, many apps fail to account for mood, daily rhythm, and personal preference. AI is usually treated as an invisible engine rather than something users can relate to.

What Makes Elysium AI Different

Elysium AI was designed as a guide that accompanies users at the right moments, not a system that constantly instructs them. Insights are delivered within three intentional time windows morning, noon, and evening turning guidance into a daily rhythm rather than a notification stream.

The system reads multiple layers together. Mood provides emotional context, Life Ratings show structural balance, and Focus defines direction. Insights emerge from the combination of these signals.

Rather than positioning AI as a neutral tool, Elysium AI introduces character-driven communication. Elly, Billy, and Tilly deliver the same insight through different tones. Users choose how the system speaks to them.

Most importantly, control remains with the user. Mood input is optional, timing is limited but transparent, and privacy is managed at a granular level. Elysium AI does not attempt to discipline users it builds rhythm with them.

Daily Insight

The Daily Insight experience is designed to create a deliberate pause within the user’s day. In Elysium AI, insights are not passively delivered; the user actively opens them. The envelope metaphor reinforces the feeling of receiving a personal message rather than consuming standard content.

The press & hold interaction slows the experience down and helps the user focus on the present moment. The interface is built around a single visual center, with distractions intentionally kept to a minimum. The goal is not to stimulate attention, but to direct it.

Once opened, only one clear message is delivered at a time. The content is presented through the selected mascot’s voice, transforming the AI from an abstract system into a character-driven guide. The reading flow is calm and uninterrupted, with no charts, scores, or secondary data layers. This screen is designed for reflection, not analysis.

Daily Insight operates within predefined daily time windows, encouraging engagement with the present rather than the past or future. The Good Insight and Bad Insight feedback captures contextual relevance and accuracy. This input directly feeds the personalization system and shapes future insights.

Mascot System (Elly, Billy, Tilly)

Mood Check-in

The Mood Check-in screen is designed to capture the user’s emotional state quickly without reducing it to something shallow. The flow begins with a single question and allows users to express how they feel through intuitive emojis, lowering the barrier to emotional input.

The first step asks for an overall mood. A brief reference to the previous day introduces temporal awareness without judgment. The short message from the mascot reinforces the feeling of companionship rather than observation.

In the second step, users select emotions that resonate with their current mood. They are not limited to a single emotion, reflecting the complexity of real emotional states. The list is intentionally curated and avoids clinical language.

Mood selection is optional. Users can continue without making a choice. This decision supports trust and habit formation instead of forced data entry. Transparency about improved accuracy through regular check-ins is provided without pressure.

Long questionnaires, free-text inputs, and psychological labels were intentionally excluded. The goal is not diagnosis, but context. Mood data is used by Daily Insight to shape interpretation and guidance.

Life Rating & Focus Selection

This experience is designed to help users assess their lives without feeling judged. The “Rate Yourself” step is not a test or evaluation, but a moment of self-awareness. Scores are entered using simple plus and minus controls instead of sliders, prioritizing intentional choice over speed.

Each life category follows the same question structure. This consistency reduces unconscious comparisons and encourages users to reflect on each area within its own context. The tone is supportive, not directive. The interface does not tell users how they should feel.

After rating, users are asked to select a single focus area. The “Choose Your Focus” screen reflects a deliberate product decision. Elysium AI does not attempt to improve everything at once. It encourages directing energy toward one meaningful area.

Focus selection is not limited to low-scoring categories. Users can choose to focus on areas they are already strong in. This supports growth through reinforcement, not only problem-solving.

Goal setting, task lists, and extended explanations were intentionally excluded from this flow. This screen defines direction, not solutions. Guidance and action continue through Daily Insight.

Life Statistics

The Life Statistics screen is designed to help users understand their life balance without overwhelming them with numbers. In Elysium AI, this screen is not meant to motivate or judge, but to build awareness. Instead of labeling states as good or bad, it presents the current situation in a calm and readable way.

The primary focus is always on a single life category. The “Currently focusing on” section prevents fragmented analysis and guides the user’s attention to one area at a time. Scores are displayed on a 10-point scale, but without aggressive colors or alarming language. The goal is clarity, not pressure.

Data is separated into weekly, monthly, and yearly views. This structure helps users distinguish short-term fluctuations from long-term patterns. Weekly charts highlight daily changes, while average values summarize overall balance in a simple manner.

The comparison section is not designed to rank life areas against each other, but to reveal relationships between them. Comparing categories such as Home and Love allows users to recognize potential cause-and-effect dynamics in their lives.

Motivational copy, advice, and calls to action were intentionally excluded from this screen. Life Statistics is not where guidance happens. It is the foundation on which insights are built. Interpretation and direction are handled through Daily Insight.

Insight Time

The Insights Time screen defines the daily rhythm between the user and Elysium AI. Rather than delivering insights randomly or continuously, the system focuses on three natural moments of the day: morning, noon, and evening. This structure is designed to turn guidance into a habit.

Time selection is presented through a limited set of options instead of free-form input. This reduces decision fatigue while ensuring insights arrive in contextually appropriate moments. Users shape their day without breaking the system’s rhythm.

After selection, changes are intentionally limited to once per week. This constraint is not meant to restrict the user, but to create consistency. Insights gain meaning when they are experienced at stable times over a period of days.

The countdown indicator adds transparency rather than pressure. It clearly communicates when the next change is available, reinforcing trust in the system.

Flexible calendars, continuous notification controls, and complex scheduling tools were intentionally excluded. Insights Time is designed as a balanced space between user control and guided structure.

Profile

The Profile screen is designed as the central hub of the user’s relationship with Elysium AI. Rather than functioning as a settings list, it brings together identity, focus, and continuity in one place. The atmospheric background and avatar at the top create an emotional threshold and shift the user away from an analytical mindset.

Invite Relations and Settings are positioned with equal visual weight. Social connections are accessible but not dominant. This balance reflects Elysium AI’s emphasis on the individual journey over social performance.

The Personal section allows users to define themselves in a minimal yet meaningful way. Fields such as About Me, Job, and Relationship are structured rather than open-ended. This protects privacy while keeping the data consistent and interpretable by the system.

The Activity & Statistics area makes the user’s ongoing relationship with the app visible. The Trainer field integrates the selected mascot into the user’s identity. The Focusing on indicator reinforces the current priority and maintains alignment across all guidance and insights. The short message from the mascot strengthens the sense of an ongoing dialogue.

The Social section presents relationships and streaks as lightweight indicators rather than competitive metrics. These elements support motivation without turning the profile into a performance space.

Detailed charts, historical analysis, and achievement badges were intentionally excluded. The Profile screen is not designed to prove progress, but to support identity, continuity, and connection.

Settings

The Settings screen represents the visible contract between the user and Elysium AI. It is not merely a place to edit information, but a space where the system’s use of data and the user’s control over it are made explicit.

The You section defines the core identity layer. Name, username, and contact details are presented in a clean, unobtrusive structure. Fields such as Profile Photo and Gender support personalization without being mandatory. The goal is understanding the user, not forcing self-description.

The Preferences section shapes the character of the experience. Insights Time and Rhythm determine when and how often guidance is delivered. Trainer selection defines the tone of interaction. The Astrology Influence Level allows users to decide how prominently astrological insights appear. This setting intentionally communicates that Elysium AI adapts to different belief levels rather than enforcing a single worldview.

Birth information is placed in a dedicated section. Date, time, and place of birth are used to improve astrological and contextual accuracy. Separating this data emphasizes both its sensitivity and its purpose.

The Privacy section gives users granular control over visibility. Emotional and personal data such as Mood, Emotion, Focus, and Relationship can be shared independently. This approach treats privacy as a set of conscious choices rather than a single global toggle.

External settings manage the system’s interaction with the device and external services. Notifications and Health integrations allow users to control how deeply the app integrates into daily life.

The Support area keeps commercial and legal topics out of the core experience. Subscription management, legal documents, and support access remain available but secondary. Options such as Log out and Delete Account clearly reinforce that the user retains ultimate control.

Hidden settings, complex permission trees, and technical jargon were intentionally avoided. The Settings screen is not about managing the system; it is about making the system respectful, transparent, and user-centered.

Letter & Stamp Metaphor

The letter metaphor in the Daily Insight experience was intentionally designed to separate guidance from the notification stream. The goal is not to make users feel like they received a message, but like something personal was sent to them.

Opening the letter requires a small act of intention. This prevents insights from being passively consumed and turns each interaction into a personal moment rather than swipeable content.

The stamps on the letter represent the time of day. Morning, noon, and evening are expressed through distinct visual atmospheres. These stamps are not decorative; they silently communicate context. Before reading, users already sense when the message belongs.

When the same insight is delivered with different stamps, its emotional tone subtly shifts. This reflects Elysium AI’s emphasis on rhythm and timing through visual language.

The purpose of this metaphor is not nostalgia, but to slow the experience down and make digital guidance feel personal, intentional, and meaningful.

App Icon

The Elysium AI app icon was designed to communicate the core idea of the product at a glance. It uses the image of a letter emerging from an envelope to visually represent the concept of personal, intentional insights.

The envelope symbolizes guidance that is consciously opened rather than passively received. The letter inside reinforces the feeling of a message prepared specifically for the user, setting the app apart from typical content or notification-based icons.

The “E” on the letter goes beyond being the initial of Elysium. It acts as a signature, emphasizing that each insight is personal. Its typographic presence reflects the app’s calm yet distinctive tone.

The sky gradient in the background references time and rhythm. It subtly represents morning, noon, and evening—the three moments that structure the Elysium AI experience. The color transition also hints at the app’s astrological and temporal context.

The icon is detailed yet restrained. It remains clear at small sizes and functions as a meaningful symbol rather than a decorative graphic.

Summary

Elysium AI was designed as an experience that accompanies users at the right moments, rather than a system that constantly instructs them. Throughout the project, the focus was not on increasing productivity, but on establishing a meaningful daily rhythm that encourages reflection.

The product brings together emotional context, life balance, and personal preferences into a single system. Daily Insight, Mood Check-in, Life Ratings, and Focus Selection were treated not as isolated features, but as interconnected parts of one decision-making framework. AI was positioned as a character-driven guide with selectable tone, rather than a neutral tool.

Speed, notification density, and excessive control were intentionally limited during the design process. Instead, the experience prioritizes clarity, single-focus interfaces, and deliberate interaction moments. Control remains with the user at all times through optional inputs, transparent timing, and granular privacy settings.

Elysium AI presents a holistic product approach to designing guided digital experiences that are calmer, more human, and context-aware.