Track your every move
2024 · Bergen · 1 min read
Team Helene Herstad Bjørgen, Margethe Liahjell, Ole Gåsvær, Silje Garmannslund Eide and Ole Sander Brudvik
Read more about Tracking Triumph here. Test the prototype here!
- Problem
- Tracking the whole body takes an impractical number of separate trackers, so athletes never get one overview of their potential or their injuries.
- Approach
- Semi-structured interviews, idea generation and “How might we…”, personas, storyboards and wireframes, evaluated with early-adopter athletes.
- Outcome
- A body-tracking concept built on a 3D model with a dynamic layout: sleep quality, workout recaps, and warnings with recommendations.
Tracking Triumph is for the athlete who wants the very last per cent, the Cristiano Ronaldos and Kristian Blummenfeldts, and for the athlete recovering from an injury who wants a safe and fast comeback, like Zlatan Ibrahimović or Jonas Abrahamsen.
One body, too many trackers
Our users are early-adopter athletes and tech-curious exercisers between 18 and 64. Tracking the whole body today takes an impractical number of separate trackers, so none of them get a single overview of their potential or their injuries. We interviewed a PhD student in health and rehabilitation technology to learn how athletes and the health sector actually use fitness applications.
Ideas, personas, one colour rule
- Idea generation, How might we, personas, a storyboard and wireframes.
- A 60-30-10 colour hierarchy: dark blue, orange and white, applied consistently across the system.
- Orange, because it feels familiar next to the fitness apps people already use.
Tracking Triumph
- A 3D model of you on the main page, replaying your movements in real time and alerting you if something goes wrong during a workout.
- Sleep. An in-depth analysis of your sleep stages and how they are distributed.
- Workout recap. Weekly, monthly and yearly analytics and comparisons, with visual guides such as videos and images, for safer and more efficient training.
- Warnings and recommendations. The sensors track the movement, the model shows it, and the system warns before a movement leads to injury.
Tested on the right people
- Participants were recruited only from the target group, early-adopter athletes, which kept the feedback relevant.
- The PhD student from the interview took part throughout the user testing, for consistency.
- The full write-up is linked at the top.
Get in toucholebrudvikjr@hotmail.com