Waking Up UI design & app screens

Waking Up is Sam Harris's meditation and mind-training app, framing mindfulness less as relaxation and more as an ongoing course in the nature of consciousness. Alongside daily sessions it offers lessons, conversations, and theory.

The design is unusually restrained for the category: deep, near-black backgrounds, elegant serif accents, and very sparse controls during practice to minimize distraction. The structured Introductory Course and Theory sections read more like a thoughtfully paginated book than a typical app. It is a strong reference for calm, intellectual, content-driven UI where typography and quiet pacing do the work.