Keeper onboarding
Redesign review: every change
The nine redesigned questions, running live below with the app's real components, art and clips. Everything works: pick answers, drag things, send texts. Flip any one to Original to see how the deployed app renders the same question today. Nothing you type or pick is saved or sent anywhere.
No. 1
PDA: draw the line
No checkboxes anymore. Each park area is a lane: pull the chevron handle down or up and everything above the line floods green. Tap a flooded row to make an exception, tap again to bring it back.
No. 2
Wizard scene painted on the card
Pick Yes and the apple drops out of his open palm toward you and is gone, and his hand stays where it is, open and empty. Pick No and his fingers close over it and he draws the fist in against his chest, so he keeps it rather than it disappearing into thin air. The two endings are different silhouettes, so you can read the answer at a glance. Locked camera on both, and each one comes to a stop by itself.
No. 3
The trolley fork, with the sign and the rails agreeing
The painting is a real fork. The black board reads FIVE WORKERS and points left along the branch climbing over the rise, the white board reads SPOUSE and points right along the branch running past the post, so the sign tells you which outcome is which instead of leaving you to guess. Answer and a wooden mine trolley rolls in along the near rails and takes the branch you chose, ending far up the left rise or down beside the post. The two endings are in different places, so the choice is still readable once the clip has stopped.
No. 4
Promotion text as a real chat
Hit Enter or the arrow and your message lands as a real bubble. The old conversation shows as a real message half cut off above a fresh timestamp, and anything you type counts as your answer, sent or not.
No. 5
Dinner invites as two chats
One thread per recipient: your best friend and your partner's mom. Each thread keeps its own messages and opens on the tail of its own previous conversation.
No. 6
Coworker reply as an email
The question already says you reply to his email, so it wears an email layout: To and Subject lines up top, then your reply and the same send arrow as the texts. Typed drafts count without sending.
No. 7
Airport line in a speech bubble
The first sentence you'd say out loud, redesigned after the last round: an editorial pull quote. A big quotation mark in the display face, your line typed large, a hairline rule underneath. No box, no placeholder, no caption.
No. 8
Looks question on the face ladder
Hexagon reference faces pinned along the slider: packed into a strip at rest, fanning out and swelling toward your rating while you drag.
No. 9 · New
Dream recap in a dream bubble
The dream question is typed inside a thought bubble: a puffy cloud with the shrinking trail of circles drifting toward the dreamer. Live below; flip to Original for the plain text box.
No. 10
Interested-in matches the gender toggle
The checkboxes are gone: the interested-in field now wears the exact same pill as "I am a", same size and same design. The one difference is you can light one or both. (A hand-drawn ink circle version was tried and dropped after review as off style.)
No. 11
Ticking an option just saves it
The dropdown SAVE button was only closing the menu, and picking an option wiped your typed search and dumped the whole catalog. Now the tick is the save and the query stays so you can keep picking.
No. 12
Mobile search closes with Done
The full-screen search on narrow windows says Done instead of SAVE, since ticking already saved.
No. 13
Add-your-own on ethnicity preference
Typing something not in the catalog offers to add it, same as traits always did. It was a dead end on the preference side before.
No. 14
Preference tiers explain themselves
One line above the tiers says what Ideal, Acceptable and Unacceptable actually do to matching, the Acceptable tier says what leaving it empty means, and the search fields teach with real examples like Irish and Japanese.
No. 15
Location screen reads top down
"Why we don't ask for distance" sits right under the title instead of hiding in the footer, and a line under the willing-to-move toggle explains what it does. The Acceptable tier here reads "Everywhere else is fine".
No. 16
Location search works
Typing a place returns neighborhoods, cities, states and countries. It returned nothing before.
Also in this build
Preference edit modal: one DONE button
The edit modal's CANCEL + SAVE PREFERENCE pair became a single DONE. Not shown: the demo account has no ranked preferences to open the modal on.
Real question catalog, word for word
All 11 modules and 143 questions are served verbatim from Keeper's staging database. No invented wording anywhere; the redesign rides on top as render markers only.
Queue skipping fixed
The app replays answer confirmations when a tab regains focus; the mock counted each replay as a new answer and skipped ahead. Replays are ignored now.
Female face images fixed
The looks ladder pointed at face files that don't exist. Women saw broken tiles.
These are real before and after captures of the app running locally; the search and preference changes are live at localhost:3100/changes.
No. 44 · Prototype
Friend's accident, said out loud
The dilemma is something you'd say, not type, so it wears the same pull quote as the airport line. Live below.
Prototype round (Aug 26)
Seth-picked prototypes from the idea deck, layered onto the same real questions. All of them run live below on the real app components, signup and flow screens included. Nothing you type here is saved or sent anywhere.
No. 21 · Prototype
Gender card flips like a painting
The first card turns over on its way to interested-in, a small line explains why the question exists, and the next card opens with a greeting.
No. 22 · Prototype
Interested-in answers back with the pool
Pick Men, Women, or both and a line under the pills answers with how many of them are on Keeper right now.
No. 23 · Prototype
Birthday pays you back
The card greets you by first name, the birth year echoes in roman numerals as you type, and typing today's date earns a quiet happy birthday.
No. 24 · Prototype
Welcome screen: a million melt to one
A dense field of tiny painted tiles that melts inward from the edges until one is left ringing, right above the welcome copy. It starts when you scroll to it, so you never arrive after the ending. The whole pitch with no words.
No. 25 · Prototype
The counter takes a beat
Answer and the number that just dropped out of your pool is set under the card for a beat, in the page's own type rather than a notification. Only on questions where the count means something: looks, height, age. Moral hypotheticals like the magic apple get nothing, because nobody can picture what eating the apple rules out.
No. 26 · Prototype
Height: Liberty or the Eiffel Tower
The unit toggle is two painted picture buttons. Imperial is the Statue of Liberty, metric is the Eiffel Tower, both frescos. The one you are not on washes out and fades. Pointless on purpose.
No. 27 · Prototype
Children: the dealbreaker asked as a person
The open-to-kids switch is now a question: someone great has a child, dealbreaker? Yes, no, or honestly not sure.
No. 28 · Prototype
Religion answers back
Picking a religion answers back with how many members would celebrate your holidays with you. The candle that used to sit on the card is gone (Seth, 2026-08-27).
No. 29 · Prototype
About you: two ways past the blank page
Answer five quick questions and a draft writes itself, or press the talk button and speak it.
No. 30 · Prototype
Age preference: the cost of a year
A live line under the sliders saying how many people fit the acceptable range.
No. 31 · Prototype
Height preference: share of the pool
Same two picture buttons as the height card, plus a live line showing what share of the pool the acceptable range covers.
No. 32 · Prototype
Appearance preference: skip the words
Under the box, its own panel with a real button in it: rate photos instead, and the type gets learned from your thumb.
No. 33 · Prototype
Phone: asked like it matters
One framing line above the form: how do we reach you when we find them? Position in the flow unchanged.
No. 34 · Prototype
Ethnicity as passport stamps
Tappable chips replace the dropdown, and each pick presses a worn customs stamp into the top right corner of the card. An opt-in prototype behind a local flag; the shipped dropdown stays the default.
No. 35 · Prototype
Core values: sort the deck
Twenty value cards you drag into four piles: core, important, indifferent, not me. Anything left in the deck stays unsorted, and the piles write into the same answer.
No. 36 · Prototype
Personal finance: the paycheck bar
Five sliders that share one paycheck: they cannot add up past 100 percent between them, and a bar on top shows the split. Under it, how much is allocated and how much is left.
No. 37 · Prototype
Debt asked approximately
Both dollar questions now lead with approximately, so nobody feels audited. Wording change picked by Seth.
No. 38 · Prototype
Agree or Disagree: swipe it (round one)
The admiration and modesty statements deal as cards, rated on the same five point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Swiping is a shortcut for the two ends. Running tally, summary at the finish.
No. 39 · Prototype
Agree or Disagree: swipe it (round two)
Same treatment for the safety, fun, risk, and customs statements.
No. 40 · Prototype
Your intelligence: the gap, said out loud
Move the two sliders and the card says what the gap means, with the above-average wink after.
No. 41 · Prototype
Pets: paw prints on the card
Every cat, dog, and other pet stamps a paw print. Cats small, dogs big.
No. 42 · Prototype
Body modifications: tattoo flash
Two fresco-style tattoo motifs sit faintly in the card background: a swallow with laurel, a rose over a dagger.
No. 43 · Prototype
Family timeline: a slider, not a box
How many years from now becomes a 0 to 15+ slider instead of an empty text field. Wording untouched.
Wes suggestions
Wes’ batch, all nine of them, built and running live below. Everything works: type in them, drag the handles, press the buttons. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere. His rule for the batch, which is worth keeping: spend the effort on the features and animations that only read when you see them move, and for the small stuff just say it in a sentence. These sit outside the No. 1 to 44 numbering on purpose, because they are a separate round.
W1 · Wes
Fog over the next question
The ambitions box sits behind fog until there is something in the first answer, then it clears and drifts up. Enough of the question shows through to read as a question rather than a grey rectangle. Type in the first field to lift it.
W2 · Wes
The number grows as you slide
On a how-much-do-you-care slider the number swells from 15px at nothing to 54px at ten, so claiming a ten is a thing you notice yourself doing. The digits grow out of a fixed-height box, so the slider under them never moves.
W3 · Wes
Stickers for what you tell us
Pick a religion and a die-cut sticker gets pressed onto the card, tilted like it was put there by hand. Christianity earns a cross, Judaism a star, Islam a star and crescent, Buddhism a wheel, Hinduism a lotus, and anything unmatched gets a neutral mark rather than a guessed-at symbol. Live on the religion panel above, No. 28.
W4 · Wes
Humor as a timed test
The description box is replaced by a picture that changes every three seconds. Press the button when one lands, five times, and the picks are written back into the same answer. The pictures are public domain and CC0 from Wikimedia Commons; memes, comedians, films and TV are all still in copyright, which is why this set is absurd animals and odd Victorian photographs instead.
W5 · Wes
Location lands with a pin
Type a place and a pin falls onto a painted continent, which flashes through bare plaster into a painted city as it lands. The ripple is squashed on one axis because the city plate is an oblique bird’s-eye view, so the ring lies on the ground instead of hovering over it. Both paintings are new Midjourney frescos.
W6 · Wes
Age preference on one ruler
Two stacked sliders become one ruler with the ideal range nested inside the widest range you would accept, and your own age marked above it. Drag any of the four handles, or tab to one and use the arrow keys. Flip to Original for the two sliders it replaces.
W7 · Wes
Height preference as people
The same ruler with a row of bodies standing on it. Each figure is drawn at the size its height earns, and how solid it is tells you whether it falls in your ideal band, your acceptable band, or outside both. Switch the units and the whole scale converts under you.
W8 · Wes
Location preference as a card deck
Seven short cards instead of one dense form, most of them yes, no or depends. Answering no to meeting someone far away drops the country and the six-hour-flight cards out of the deck, and the count and the still-ahead list update to match, so the deck is honest about how much is left.
W9 · Wes
Level up the strength meter
The one Wes said needs no demo, so here it is anyway. Add interests and the response strength meter flares and pops as it climbs. Remove one and it stays quiet, because rewarding a fall would be a lie.