Mockup 333 · Care Card Mechanics

One warm default. Optional modes. Make it yours.

The Care Card is Maddy's soft pocket of regulation tools. It ships opinionated and ready, so nobody has to build a toolkit on a hard day. If a default set does not fit, a mode is one tap away. And if you want to shape it by hand, you can, without ever being made to.

App UI shown in Cotton Candy Sky · one of 8 sensory themes
1

Start with a default

A curated set of tools is already here the first time you open Care. No setup, no blank slate, no decisions required.

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2

Switch a mode

One tap swaps the whole set for a bundle that fits the day: Everyday, Low day, Overstimulated, Wind-down.

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Make it yours

Add from the library, hide what you never reach for, reorder so your first choice is on top. Only if you want to.

02 · How it works

Default, then mode, then hand-editing

Three layers, each optional after the first. The default alone is a complete experience. Modes and manual editing sit on top for anyone who wants them, and nothing about them is required, timed, or counted.

Opinionated default
The set that greets you. Curated, warm, ready.
😂 Laughs
🫧 Relax
🌿 Ground
🫧 Fidget
🍋 Squeeze
✨ Learn
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Mode switch changes the set
One tap on a mode re-stocks the card. Here: Low day.
EverydayLow dayOverstimulatedWind-down
🎵 Hum
🍋 Squeeze
🧸 Safe in my Body
🎧 Sounds
💗 What helps me
🫧 Relax
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Editing adds, hides, reorders
Pull from the library, hide a tile, drag to reorder.
🫧 Relax
🎨 Colour-in
💗 What helps me
🌿 Ground · hidden
🎵 Hum
＋ Add a tool
Structured flexibility (reward canon decision 5): the structure is fixed for everyone, the content varies for everyone. Grounding and stim each keep a front door. No counts, no streaks, no "you haven't used this" nudge.
03 · Subject

The Care Card, on her phone

Five moments: the warm default, the one-tap mode switch, hand-editing, the personal "What helps me" list, and how Care is gently offered on a hard day, never forced.

MSubjectMaddy · iPhone · Cotton Candy Sky
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Care

Things for you, Maddy. No pressure.

😂Laughs100 jokes, no pressure
🫧Relaxin for 4, out for 6
✨Learna little fact
🌿Ground5-4-3-2-1, back to the body
🫧Fidgetpop, pop, pop
🍋Squeezetense, then let go
✦This is your everyday set. Want a different feel today? Tap Modes up top, or Make it yours to shape it.
a · Default Care Card
A curated set is already here. No blank slate, nothing to assemble before you can use it.
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Modes

One tap. Pick the shape of today.

Everydayyour usual six
Low daysoft and few
Overstimulatedquiet the room
Wind-downtoward rest
Low day: fewer choices, gentler tools, the ones that ask least of you.
🎵Huma soft sound to feel
🍋Squeezetense, then let go
🧸Safe in my Bodyslow, kind, somatic
🎧Soundsa bed to rest on
💗What helps meyour own list
🫧Relaxin for 4, out for 6
✦Switching a mode never deletes anything. Your Everyday set is exactly where you left it.
b · Preset modes switcher
Four one-tap bundles. The tile set changes with the mode. Calm, one tap, no fiddling.
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✓ Done

Make it yours

Reorder with the arrows. Hide with the eye. Add from the library below.

On your card
🫧
Relax
in for 4, out for 6
🎵
Hum
a soft sound to feel
Add from the library
🧸
Safe in my Body New
slow somatic grounding
🎨
Colour-in New
a surface to fill in
💗
What helps me New
your own personal list
🫧
Breathe
blow slow, watch it grow
✦Hidden is never gone. Anything you hide waits quietly in the library for whenever you want it back.
c · Make it yours
Clean reorder with arrows and a grip handle, not an overlapping drag. Hide, and add from the tile library including three new tools.
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What helps me

The things you already know work. In your words.

Yours
✓Weighted blanket on my legsyou added
✓Text Priya a duck photoyou added
Add something that helps you…
Add
Gentle ideas to adopt
Cold water on my wrists
Feet flat, name five sounds
Put on the one song
✦Adopt an idea to make it yours, or write your own. This list is only for you.
d · "What helps me" opens
Presets you can adopt in one tap, plus your own additions. A personal, private list, not a checklist to complete.
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Hey, Maddy

However today is, is okay.

🌫 You said today feels like shutdown

Want your Care Card?

No need to do anything. It is here if a soft tool would help right now.

🫧Nothing is due. Tasks are resting today. They will be here, unchanged, whenever you are ready.
✦The offer is a whisper, not a push. Dismiss it and it stays gone for today, no strings.
e · Offered in the moment
On a "shutdown" check-in, home gently offers the card. Dismissible, never forced, and it does not reappear to pester.
Why offered, not automatic A shutdown day is exactly when assembling a toolkit is hardest, and also when a wrong, loud intervention does the most harm. So the card is surfaced, in the calm sensory envelope, and she chooses. Surprise is allowed in content, never in sensory delivery (canon decision 4). One tap in, one tap away.
04 · Solo subject

On your own? Almost exactly the same.

A solo subject with no caregiver gets the identical hybrid mechanics: same default, same modes, same make-it-yours. The differences are small and additive.

● Identical

  • The same warm default Care Card, the same six starting tools.
  • The same four modes: Everyday, Low day, Overstimulated, Wind-down.
  • The same make-it-yours: add from the library, hide, reorder, "What helps me."
  • The same in-the-moment offer on a hard check-in.

◆ The two deltas

  • No caregiver-suggested tiles. Nobody else can propose or place a tool on your card. Every tile here is one you chose.
  • A gentle, optional invite. One quiet entry at the foot of the library: bring in someone who helps you. Optional, never nagged, ties to the invite flow.
SSolo subjectNo caregiver in the circle · self-serve
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Make it yours

Your card, entirely your call.

On your card
🌿
Ground
5-4-3-2-1, back to the body
🎨
Colour-in
a surface to fill in
Add from the library
🧸
Safe in my Body
slow somatic grounding
💗
What helps me
your own personal list
Invite someone who helps youOptional. Only if and when you want.
✦The invite is the single addition for solo. It is one soft line, never a prompt that returns.
Solo · the single visible delta
Same editor, no caregiver-suggested tiles, plus one optional "invite someone who helps you" entry at the foot of the library.
Plainly: it is the same product Solo is not a stripped mode or a lesser tier. The regulation surface is whole on its own. We do not withhold tools until someone "adds a caregiver," and we do not pressure anyone to. The invite exists because some people do want a hand, and it should be one calm tap away when they do.
05 · Caregiver

The caregiver's own Care Card

Same hybrid philosophy, turned toward the person doing the supporting. This is the caregiver's own regulation surface, not a place to edit anyone else's. Caregiver load is first-class (reward canon decision 6).

JCaregiverJeremy · their own Care tab · iOS-native sizing
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For you, too

A card that is just yours. Supporting is a lot.

A breath before I respondreset in 60 seconds
Depletedrunning on empty
Wind-downput the day down
Everyday default plus caregiver modes. Same one-tap swap, same make-it-yours.
🫧One breathbefore you reply
🧸Unclenchjaw, shoulders, hands
🎧Soundsa quieter room
💗What refills meyour own list
🌤A kinder linefor the hard moment
🎵Huma soft sound to feel
✦Yours to shape, same as hers. Add, hide, reorder, whenever you like.
Caregiver default + modes
Caregiver-appropriate defaults and modes: "A breath before I respond," "Depleted," "Wind-down." Same anti-demand promise.
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✓ Done

Make it yours

Your regulation surface, not Maddy's. Shape it for you.

On your card
🫧
One breath
before you reply
💗
What refills me
coffee on the porch, a walk
Add from the library
🍋
Squeeze
tense, then let go
🎨
Colour-in
a surface to fill in
✦This card never touches Maddy's. Support, not surveillance: her tools are hers, yours are yours. The system carries the consistency so you do not have to.
Caregiver make-it-yours
Same editor, same library, same optionality. Separate from the subject's card entirely. The caregiver regulates for themselves.
Same philosophy, their side of it The caregiver Care tab is the home for load-reduction. The hybrid model matters here for the same reason it does for the subject: on a depleted day, nobody should have to assemble their own coping kit. A strong default, a mode for the mood, and the freedom to shape it. Minimize caregiver decision-count; never add burden in a strained household.
06 · Tablet

iPad Today, with Care in the side rail

The subject's day and task view on iPad. The wider canvas gives Care a permanent home in a side rail: the Care Card renders as a calm two-column grid beside the day, always one glance away. iPad is additive only; iPhone does not regress.

MSubject on iPadLandscape · Today view · Cotton Candy Sky
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Today

However today is, is okay. Nothing carries over from yesterday.

🌤 You said today feels okay
A few things, whenever
✓
🪥
Brush teethdone, nice
£1
💧
Fill the water bottletap when it is done
£1
🧺
Laundry into the basketno rush
£2
If you have it in you
🚶
Step outside for a minutefresh air counts
£2
🫧 Care
Your soft pocket. Always right here on iPad.
EverydayLow dayOverstimulatedWind-down
🫧Relaxin for 4, out for 6
🌿Ground5-4-3-2-1
😂Laughs100 jokes
🫧Fidgetpop, pop, pop
💗What helps meyour own list
🍋Squeezetense, let go
🌙 Quiet it down · ✎ Make it yours
On the phone, Care is its own screen reached from home. On iPad the extra width lets it live beside the day as a rail, so a regulation tool is always visible without leaving Today. The rail carries the identical hybrid: the mode row, the same tiles, the same "Make it yours." Same tap targets (44px+), same tools, same copy. Nothing about the iPhone experience changes. iPad simply has room to keep the soft pocket open.
Mockup 333 · Care Card mechanics
Hybrid model: opinionated default → optional preset modes → optional manual editing. Cotton Candy Sky, one of 8 sensory themes.
Identity-first, warm, anti-demand. No streaks, no counts, no urgency. The product asks, it never pushes.