Orbit · Triple Glazed Studios
A timer you can use without opening the app.
I helped bring focused time tracking to interactive widgets—with App Intents and SwiftUI.
- Role
- Software Developer · Designer
- Studio
- Triple Glazed Studios
- Contribution
- Oct–Dec 2024
- Format
- Remote apprenticeship
Why this work mattered
Keep the timer close. Keep the work in focus.
During a three-month apprenticeship with Triple Glazed Studios, I helped bring real timer actions to Orbit’s interactive widgets.
Orbit already helped independent teams track time and turn that work into invoices. The opportunity was to make the most common action even closer—start or stop a timer without opening the app.
My role sat between design and development. I needed to understand the existing product, respect its visual language, and make a very small surface feel like a natural part of Orbit.
My contribution
Small surfaces. Careful decisions.
Interactive widgets
Connected quick timer actions through the App Intents protocol.
Faithful SwiftUI
Translated Orbit’s visual language with pixel-level care.
More timers at a glance
Laid groundwork for an extra-large widget with multiple active timers.
How I built it
Make a small surface feel complete.
I used SwiftUI and App Intents to connect widget controls to Orbit’s timer actions. Every state had to stay clear in a compact space and respond without pulling someone away from their work.
The visual work was equally exact. I tuned spacing, hierarchy, color, and controls against the existing app so the new interaction felt native to the product—not like an accessory added later.
I also laid the groundwork for an extra-large interactive widget built around multiple active timers. That meant finding a hierarchy that could show more activity at once without turning the widget into a crowded dashboard.
Interactive widgets
The next action, right where you need it.
Start, stop, and check a timer from a focused surface.
Product coherence
New behavior. Still unmistakably Orbit.
The widget extends the product without drifting from its visual system.
The result
Less navigation between intention and action.
Orbit now lets people start and stop time entries from the Home Screen. My contribution helped make that interaction feel focused, responsive, and unmistakably Orbit.
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