Overview
Restrictions that were put in place to arrest the spread of the coronavirus in Korea included shuttering gyms for a time. In response, Shinhan Life, one of the nation’s major life insurance companies, developed this home fitness training service to help people maintain their health amid these restrictions.
The challenges
People who workout often desire assurance that their form is correct and prefer immediate feedback. The skeleton graphic of movement and joints we developed helps users correct their form and posture in real time. Gym-goers often find it motivating to keep pace with others who have similar fitness goals, so we made our ranking graphic prominent for such users.
Ranking GUI
One’s ranking shows how much they are accomplishing relative to others among the group. This graphic presents the number of people in the group exercise and emphasizes the user’s position therein. The challenge here was that if there were many people in the group, it was hard to represent everyone as a dot and still recognize the user’s position. The solution we settled upon was to instead classify rank as low, medium, or high and highlight the user’s position with a numeric rank.
Skeleton
The skeleton graphic shows the user’s movements, including angle, direction, height. The challenge here is that the skeleton GUI distorted the video image. The graphic is two-dimensional whereas the user’s movement is three-dimensional. An effective skeleton GUI would need to represent depth as well, which we tried to do here.
Personal Statistics
Each person has their own fitness goal, but a common theme in these goals is improving muscle tone and strength. Humans have approximately 320 pairs of muscles. Getting into the weeds about specific muscles would be a turnoff for beginners and casual users, but more serious users would probably value more granular data. We first considered dividing the muscles into localized groups, but we eventually decided that a simpler classification of top, core, bottom, would be most helpful for a majority of users.
Quick summary of design process
Results
It launched in March 2021.
My role
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Managing graphic design, user experience of mobile and TV apps with high-fidelity graphic mockup
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Managing the schedule of service design
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Designing user data dashboard
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Designing reward system to motivate users
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Researching insurance companies’ health care services
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Writing terms and conditions of service