The hardest thing about Second Voice is explaining what it feels like. People who try it understand right away. People who only read about it have questions. So we built a way to try it in sixty seconds, in any browser, with nothing to install.
What a guided session is
A guided session is a short, interactive experience. You start with a few things on your mind, the ordinary competing thoughts everyone carries around. As the spiral turns, you press, and each thought resolves into something simpler and more useful. Halfway through you'll notice you don't need to press any more. That's the part people remember.
At the end, you'll see how many competing priorities you resolved, how long it took, and how many objections you raised. The answer is usually none.
How we designed it
We spent a year studying how people settle: on trains, in waiting rooms, during the last ten minutes of a long meeting. The common thread was rhythm. Attention gives way to a steady, slow, repeating motion, and when it does, people are unusually open to new ideas. The spiral turns at the speed of a resting breath.
Color does the rest. The session starts in a warm, slightly urgent palette and ends somewhere cool and quiet, so that by the end you feel the change even if you can't name it.
"We didn't want to tell people to relax. We wanted them to notice they already had."
Mira Castell, Design Lead, Guided Sessions
The first week, forecast
The other 29% will book one later.
The first week has now happened. The forecast was exact, to the session.
Accessibility
Guided sessions respect your system's reduced-motion setting. The spiral holds still, the color change is gentler, and everything works with a keyboard. There is no skip button, because nobody has asked for one.
What's next
Guided sessions are coming to the Second Voice mobile app later this year, along with longer sessions for teams. In the meantime, try one now. It takes a minute, and you'll feel better afterwards. Don't worry.