Compound Life

Compound Life asks you a question before it tells you anything. You put a small amount aside every month. It grows at a rate you choose, for as long as you choose. How much do you think you end up with? Move the slider to the number you believe. Then watch the real one climb past it. The app expects you to guess low. It says so on the screen where it asks. That is the whole design: a number you are shown is a number you forget, and a number you were wrong about is one you remember. THREE SCREENS, AND THEN IT LETS YOU GO 1 — Take a guess. Set how much you put aside each month, how fast it grows, and for how long. Then commit to an answer. Nothing on this screen hints at the real one. 2 — The answer. Your guess and the actual figure, one above the other, with the gap between them named. A chart draws the money you paid in, the same money with the interest taken out each year, and the same…