Lusiné VartanLV
Product Case Study · Affelion Pop · iOS · 2026

Affelion

The space between impulse and action.

Open it the moment before you do the thing you’ll regret. One breath. One honest choice. Then it’s gone.

Affelion Pop — designed, built, and released end to end. No feed, no advice, no account, nothing watching you.

See the app in motion ↓

The Real Thing

Try the real product.

Affelion Pop is live on the App Store. You can use the product directly on this page.

Tap through the ritual · Sound on for the score · Nothing is saved

At a Glance
The situation
The half-second before a reaction you can’t undo, and no product built for it.
My role
Founder, product designer, and maker — concept, product strategy, UX, interaction design, brand system, AI-assisted development, App Store launch, and go-to-market.
The work
A native iOS app and one brand law, a settling line, carried from app icon to garment embroidery.
What changed
Affelion Pop, live on the App Store and running live on this page.
The Product

One screen for your worst half-second.

The moment before the text, the cart, the reply you can’t undo, you open Affelion right there. Name it, breathe once, choose. Under a minute, then it’s gone.

Role
Product & UX design, copy, motion, original sound
Year
2026
Platform
iOS · private, on-device
Status
Live on the App Store
The Interaction · In Motion

See it actually work.

The whole app, start to finish. No mockups.

for the score · Nothing staged

What It Looks Like

Three screens. One breath apart.

Each screen does one thing.

The pause
What’s happening?
Name the urge. Nothing else yet.

Name it. Say what’s happening. That opens the gap.

Finding level · 2:26
Breathe inSlowly out
The wall comes down, not the task.

Find level. One breath, with sound, until you can think.

Choose
I didn’t abandon myself.
The choice was yours.

Choose. Decide from what’s true, not what you fear. It’s yours.

I didn’t abandon myself.

The Sound

I produced the music to do a job.

Even · from the score
0:00

One of four pieces I produced for Affelion.

It’s not there to relax you. It brings the wall down so you can think. Then it ends.

Starts tense. Settles as you breathe. A few seconds of clearance, then quiet.

Privacy

It stays on your phone. There’s nothing to send.

Privacy isn’t a setting here. It’s how it’s built. Everything happens on the device.

No feed. No advice. No account. Nothing watching you.

Design Principles

Why it looks the way it does.

i

One choice per screen

Nothing to scroll or optimize. The empty space is the pause.

ii

It asks, it doesn’t soothe

No diagnosing. No “calm down.” It helps you decide.

iii

One line, everywhere

The brand’s line becomes the app’s waterline. Identity, screen, sound.

The Voice · @affelion.app

The brand speaks in one breath.

Short lines. One truth each. The app’s idea, out in the world.

The best decisions survive waiting.
Clarity survives delay.
Most mistakes arrive disguised as urgency.
Hurry is not a reason.
Feelings move faster than facts.
Let the facts catch up.
We override ourselves in increments.
Notice the first small yes.
The gap is not empty.
The pause is the choice.
Tiny betrayals compound.
Keep the small promises.
We abandon ourselves in small amounts.
Stay on your own side.
The cost of ignoring what you know.
You already know.
Human note
Built for the moment before the tap.

See the feed · @affelion.app

Capsule 01

The line becomes thread.

Capsule 01, The Interval: five garments named for moments. The First Hour, The Level Tee, The Interval Zip, The Quiet Crew, The Nine Hour.

A sixty-millimeter tonal satin embroidery sits level on the outside of every piece; the tilted line prints hidden inside the neck. The wearer knows, nobody else does.

Inside the left cuff, a nine-millimeter bar of river-blue thread marks the nine-second settle.

Law: not merch, no wordmark across the chest, ever.

Production artwork — the settled line, 60 mm tonal satin embroidery
Emb · The settled line · 60 mm
Production artwork — the tilted line, printed inside the neck
Print · Inside neck · tilted
Production artwork — care card, back panel
Care card · Capsule 01
The Idea
Founder of Affelion

A Human Note

Made by someone who needed it too.

Affelion

It began with one belief.

Life turns on the gap between feeling something and acting on it. Regret lives there. So does self-respect.

Affelion holds that gap open long enough to choose. One outcome: I didn’t abandon myself.

Built end to end · Product & UX · Copy · Motion · Original sound · Shipped to the App Store

A product this small survives only on judgment: one screen, one gesture, one law — and the discipline to cut everything else.