For many mindful folks, modern meditation means putting down the mobile device, but PAUSE turns smartphones into tools for guided relaxation. PAUSE is a collaboration between ustwo and Danish mental health company PauseAble. The app uses simple-but-deliberate touch gestures with calming colors, sights, and sounds to direct a user’s focus and provide brief relief from the frenetic pace of the digital era. With the constant change in technology, it is easy to blame our devices for causing stress or disturbing our attention. A natural reaction to this is to view them as a dangerous force that we must keep a distance from or set clear boundaries. Creating PAUSE, UsTwo and PauseAbles' goal was to turn this assumption on it’s head. Using that same technology, they instead created a simple, beautiful, intuitive app that helps users relax and embrace mindfulness in seconds, no matter where they are.