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The problem: Stanford’s ultimate frisbee community (and many other athletic teams) was using an outdated site, workoutlogthing (WOLT), to track workouts of the whole team. Despite functional and experiential limitations, the teams continued to use it because it has very clear and simple functionality not found in other tools.
The solution: 4 Stanford frisbee players (including me) built another tool for our senior software project. Over a year later, the tool was still actively used by the women’s team and some members of the men’s team!
My role: UX design, icon design, user research
Top features of the remade app:
**note: this was a course project; we were allotted only 10 weeks from start (brainstorming app ideas, needfinding) to finish (implementing a reasonably refined app)- HTML is no longer needed to create posts — easy to do in between bench press sets!
- audience for each note and post is customizable
- posts allow for free text and easy-input set/rep/weight entries
Comparison (outdated WOLT on the left; our new TWOL on the right):
Our homepage makes strides to be much more appealing and user-friendly. We put the common actions front and center.
Entering exercises on WOLT requires HTML tags for formatting. HTML isn't known by average users, plus it's cumbersome to enter on mobile between sets at the gym!
Entering exercises on TWOL doesn’t require any nasty HTML tags or small text boxes. It’s all taken care of with a number pad or by tapping the + and – buttons.
Each time you click to edit a post, you are editing the entire post — one errant click could erase a whole day's workout!
On TWOL, each exercise can easily be edited or deleted without affecting the rest of the post.
Team view might have been WOLT's best feature. However, there was only a default visibility setting: everybody could see everything.
We kept team view is similar — except audience for notes must be selected before posting. Users now had the the option to keep some notes for their eyes only or only for certain teams.
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