Capstone Project - CLARITY

[JoeGriff1410]

Clarity: Where Performance Meets Discipline

Most people don’t think twice about their caffeine habits. They reach for another coffee, another energy drink, hoping for more focus, more energy, more output.

But performance isn’t about more. It’s about balance.

Clarity is the result of my iOS development journey with Chris, its an app I’ve built to bring structure to something we often take for granted, our daily caffeine intake. It’s a minimalist tool designed for high-performers, deep thinkers, and anyone who wants to optimise their mind and body, not just react to energy crashes or sleepless nights.

Why I Built It

I’m a developer in my spare time, I have a full time job and I train Mixed Martial arts 6 days a week, so I care about how I feel, think, and perform, day in, day out. I started to notice how caffeine could sharpen or sabotage those outcomes depending on when and how much I consumed. There wasn’t a tool that helped me align caffeine with focus, training, and recovery. So I built one.

What Clarity Does

Clarity helps you track your caffeine intake with precision—across time, sources, and thresholds. It gives you real-time feedback on:

How much caffeine is still in your system
Whether you’ve hit your personal intake limit
How close you are to an optimal state for sleep or recovery

It’s not about restriction—it’s about making informed decisions.

The Philosophy Behind It

The name Clarity represents more than just a clean interface. It’s a concept: the fine line between chaos and control. Between burnout and performance. Between unconscious consumption and deliberate action.

I didn’t just want to build another health tracker. I wanted to create a companion for those who treat their energy as a resource, not an accident.

What’s Next

Clarity is just getting started. The current version is lean, but deeply intentional. As users engage, I’ll be expanding features based on real habits and feedback, because the most powerful tools are the ones that evolve with you.

I want to thank Chris and the team for their comprehensive library of courses and thoroughly enjoyable learning.

[JoeGriff1410]

UI!

Designing Clarity: Insights From Learning Figma

When I set out to build Clarity, I knew one thing: it couldn’t just work—it had to feel right.

Clarity is about focus. About control. About eliminating the noise. I wanted the interface to reflect that. Simple and sharp. A UI that didn’t try too hard—but did exactly what you needed, when you needed it.

What surprised me was just how much I learned about UI principles through the designing your app part of the course—especially when it came to prototyping in Figma.

Building the UI

Clarity’s interface is intentionally minimal. The dashboard gives you a quick, visual pulse of your current caffeine state: how much is in your system, how close you are to your daily limit, and whether you’re in a safe zone for sleep.

Each of these metrics is represented by a “Data Pill”—clean shapes, colour-coded progress, tap to expand. The UX is focused on giving you insight in under five seconds. No clutter. No complexity.

What Figma Taught Me

Before the course, I approached app design from a purely code-based mindset. Layouts felt rigid. Visual hierarchy was something I just felt out, not something I understood deeply.

I’ve used Figma in the past, but there were so many cool tricks I learned in this course that made the process so much more enjoyable.

• I learned how to structure my layouts visually before touching SwiftUI
• I started thinking in components—reusable design elements that mirrored the modularity of SwiftUI
• I could test ideas fast, compare variations, and refine spacing, font weights, and flow without breaking anything

[Chris_Parker]

Welcome to the community Joe. Good luck with the project.

[JoeGriff1410]

Thanks Chris!

The MVP is complete, I was a little bit behind with posting on here.

Once I have setup the Apple Developer Program, the ‘test flight’ will go live with Test Flight. Exciting times!