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What are you working on?
Choose a guide for a practical starting point. Each connects decisions, tradeoffs, patterns and deeper reading.
A worked example
Someone returns after a week away.
What should greet them? Work through the choices behind a reading plan, its progress display and a welcoming return.
Follow the design decision →Start from a different situation
Preparing to teach, following a sermon or listening on the way home call for different support.
Find patterns by purpose →Or choose a topic
Context around the passage
How much context does a reader need around the passage? Choosing the reading unit, landing in the right place, and keeping Scripture, notes and explanations distinct.
What does this person need to understand or find?5-minute routeListening
Can the practice continue when the screen goes dark? Screen-off listening, read-along, chosen silence and an ending that lets the phone disappear.
Can the practice continue when the screen is off?5-minute routeTrust in AI answers
What authority does a fluent answer seem to have? Giving AI a bounded job, showing what it did, letting people check its sources, and keeping care in human hands.
What authority might a fluent answer appear to have?8-minute guideAttention and time
What would “enough for now” look like? Reminders, emails, feeds and endings: asking for attention across every channel without taking more than was offered.
What would “enough for now” look like?8-minute guidePricing and access
Who pays for a faith app, and for what? What a Bible or faith app really costs, how ministries and businesses pay for it, and where the money can strain trust.
What is being paid for, by whom, and what happens when the money stops?8-minute guideAnalytics
What is the least you need to know? Choosing metrics and research methods that answer product questions while protecting chats, prayers and reading histories.
What is the least sensitive evidence that could answer the question?5-minute starting frameworkCommunity and visibility
Who can see this, respond to it, and hold authority? Choosing the audience, accountability and moderation for shared plans, prayer requests, discussion and mentoring before adding a feed.
Who can see this, respond to it and exercise authority?7-minute guideFinding passages
How does someone find the passage they are looking for? Reader controls, browsing, typed references, combined search fields and book order, as one journey into Scripture.
What does this person know already—and where should this action take them?7-minute guideHow AI comes across
What kind of presence does the interface suggest is here? Names, avatars, typing dots, memory and disclosure in AI chat: warmth without mistaken identity.
What kind of presence does this interface lead someone to believe is here?Use this with your team—or your coding assistant
Read one guide, compare one pattern, and write a decision with a testable outcome. Bring the same brief into implementation so the intent survives the build.
Open the decision worksheet