Thrive is a mental-health companion app we built with Monash University — and for an app people open on hard days, warmth isn't a nice-to-have, it's the product. Static screens couldn't carry that feeling, so we reached for Rive.
Rive lets us ship real-time, interactive animation that responds to state — a character that reacts, transitions that breathe — at a fraction of the file size of video or Lottie. The result is an app that feels alive and calm instead of clinical.
See the full visual case study on Behance, or read about how we approach interaction and motion design.