Case Study, Product · Brand · Design System

A fertility companion that feels human, not clinical.

EggWise walks with people through one of life's most emotional journeys. I built the brand, the product experience, and a full design system, warm where healthcare is usually cold.

Role  Founder · Design Scope  Brand · Product · System Platforms  iOS · Android · Web Year  2026
EggWise Today home screen
The one feeling

Every screen exists to make one feeling tangible: you are not alone, and this is human, not a medical chart.

Fertility apps tend to treat people as patients-as-problems: cold blues, clinical charts, stat dumps. EggWise takes the opposite stance. It speaks like a trusted friend who happens to know the science, acknowledging feeling before data, celebrating small wins, and never using alarmist language.

The work spans three fronts that had to feel like one product: a brand with a distinct warmth, a patient app that carries someone through tracking, learning, and community, and a clinical portal for the fertility teams who care for them, all held together by a single, documented design system.

The challenge

Warmth and science, in the same breath.

Three tensions shaped every decision.

01

Emotional, not transactional

People arrive anxious and hopeful. The product had to lead with reassurance, "your fertile window is open", before ever showing a number.

02

Two very different audiences

A frightened first-time patient and a busy fertility clinician need opposite things from the same platform, softness versus density, without feeling like two products.

03

Consistency at speed

As a founder shipping fast, I needed one source of truth, tokens, components, themes, so new screens and marketing stayed unmistakably EggWise.

The approach

Four principles that run through everything.

Principle 01

Human, not clinical

Cream grounds instead of sterile white. Dusty-teal as a calm primary, warm-peach and soft-gold as emotional accents. Generous rounding and soft, layered shadows. Nothing sharp, nothing cold.

Principle 02

Feeling before data

Copy speaks to "you"; the product is "we." Good news earns a gold sparkle. Empty states encourage instead of dead-ending. Numbers arrive only after the reassurance lands.

Principle 03

One system, every side of care

Semantic tokens let a single component library re-theme from a patient's warm cream to a clinician's focused dark, same DNA, different job.

Principle 04

Motion like a warm exhale

Gentle ease-out entrances, a springy pop for confirmations, slow ambient loops. No harsh or mechanical movement, and everything settles calmly under reduced-motion.

Brand identity

An egg, a sparkle, and a promise.

The mark is a teal egg with a gold "wave" and a sparkle cluster, care and celebration in one glyph. The tagline says the rest: Smart Fertility Starts With You.

EggWise egg mark
EggWise
Primary mark
EggWise cream mark
EggWise
On dark surfaces
EggWise app icon
App icon
Home-screen tile
The palette, five brand hues
Dusty Teal
#74A0A0
Primary · actions
Warm Peach
#FFCBA4
Accent · focus
Soft Gold
#FFD700
Celebration
Charcoal
#36454F
Dark surface · text
Off-White
#EEE4D2
Cream page
Type & voice
Aa
Poppins
Display, headings, CTAs, the signature label. "Black" is remapped to 800.
RegularBoldBlack 800
Aa
Nunito Sans
Body, soft, humanist, sentence-case. Carries every reassuring line.
RegularSemiboldBold
The signature label
Cycle Day 14

Uppercase · Poppins 800 · wide tracking. For CTAs, stat labels, eyebrows.

Soft body voice
"A gentle moment to note how you're feeling today."
The design system

One toolkit. Every EggWise surface.

Tokens, components, and three themes, documented so brand, app, and marketing all stay unmistakably EggWise. Shown here on the app's dark-first surface.

Buttons
Chips · badges · icon chips
Fertile window ✦ Premium
Card + ambient blob
Wellness snapshot
You logged 6 days in a row, your body thanks you.
Bottom navigation
Home
Calendar
Insights
You
40+
Design tokens, color, type, space, motion
15
Reusable components
3
Themes from one token set
2
Type families, one weight system
The patient app

A companion for every part of the journey.

Tracking, understanding, treatment, calm, and community, each screen leads with reassurance, then reveals the science underneath.

EggWise Today home screen
✦ The home screen

Today, at a glance, and at ease.

The cycle ring, an AI-guided protocol, and a wellness snapshot greet you the moment you open the app, framed emotionally before a single statistic appears.

1Cycle ringCurrent day and fertility phase, read as reassurance, not a countdown.
2AI protocolA gentle, personalized plan with clear phase and progress.
3Wellness snapshotIndex and a quietly-celebrated logging streak, shareable in a tap.
Ask EggWise AI
Ask EggWise
Real-time, trusted answers to the questions people are afraid to ask out loud.
Start a fertility cycle
Start a Cycle
IVF, IUI, FET or timed intercourse, protocol and key dates in two clear steps.
Community Hub
Community Hub
Moderated peer groups so no one carries a diagnosis alone.
Meditation and sounds
Meditation & Sounds
Ambient and breathing tracks for the hardest days of waiting.
Learn Portal
Learn Portal
Cycle basics, conditions and treatments, in plain, kind language.
20+
patient screens

tracking, learning, calm & care, all built from the same system.

The clinical side, EggWise Pro

The same warmth, tuned for focus.

Clinicians get a denser, dark-first workspace, practice overview, patient pipeline, live status, built from the same tokens and components as the patient app. One design system, two jobs: softness for families, precision for the teams who care for them.

Practice overview Patient pipeline Cohort analytics Billing
app.myeggwise.com/pro
EggWise Pro clinician dashboard
Marketing & growth

The brand, out in the world.

The system stretches into a full growth engine, store listings, social campaigns, Pinterest content, and print, all painted from the same tokens.

✦ Brand campaign

Care for both sides of fertility.

One platform for the families on the journey and the clinics who guide them. The hero line that ties the patient app and EggWise Pro together across every channel.

EggWise Pro
EggWise app
App Store & Play listing
Your cycle and wellness, together.
Cycle day, fertile window, wellness index and streak, all on your home screen.
Learn what you're afraid to ask.
Real-time, trusted answers, judgment-free, any time of day.
Never on the journey alone.
Moderated peer groups for every diagnosis and stage.
Pinterest & social content
✦ Affirmation
Your body is not behind. It's on its own beautiful clock.
EggWise
Did you know
The fertile window is about 6 days, not just one.
EggWise
Myth vs fact
"Stress alone causes infertility." Not quite, let's talk.
EggWise
Feature
Track your cycle and your calm, in one app.
EggWise
Print, business cards
EggWise
Chris Cooper
Founder
chris@myeggwise.com · myeggwise.com
✦ Smart Fertility Starts With You.
EggWise
Care for both
sides of fertility.
iOS · Android · Web
Three themes, one system

The same components, dressed for the moment.

Semantic tokens let every surface re-theme automatically, warm by default, focused in the dark, expressive when it's time to celebrate.

Editorial Cream
The warm, human default. Pure white is warmed to cream so nothing reads clinical.
Charcoal Dark
The app ships dark-first, calm, focused, easy at 6am and midnight alike.
Deep Space Vibrant
An always-dark neon mode, teal, pink and gold on a deep-space gradient for celebration.
What shipped

A brand, two products, and the system beneath them.

Brand identity
Mark, palette, type, voice and print, a warmth that's instantly recognizable.
Patient app
20+ screens across tracking, learning, treatment, calm and community.
Clinic portal
EggWise Pro, a dense clinician workspace from the same components.
Design system
40+ tokens, 15 components, 3 themes, one documented source of truth.

“The goal was never a prettier fertility app. It was to make people feel a little less alone, and to build a system warm enough to keep it that way as we grow.”