Scenario
Coach Martin is trying to plan a track workout for today. He wants to change the workout depending on how well his runners have grown, but has only a vague idea and doesn't want to risk injuring his runners. He's been taking down times for the last 3 years at Packer Collegiate Institute as the head coach on a clipboard. As a result, Coach Martin has now a drawer full of times for his team. He has attempted to use Microsoft Excel to put all the workouts in sheets, but it is too tedious to rewrite a season's worth of times. And because Martin is not especially proficient at Excel, all he can do transferring times to excel is collect them in one place. Martin has now looked to Forward Strides to help him solve this problem going forward.
Task Order:
- Put his team into the Forward Strides system
- Enter a workout and assign members to workout
- Take times during workout on this device
- Disply results in a nice visual representation
Design Sketches
Stephen Zhang
Design 1:
*Goal: *Designed with a focus on workouts
INTERFACE: Menu bar displays today's workout, previous workouts, and a performance trend button
First page is the today's workout page after expanding. Times/Stats can be taken by clicking on one of the line next to an athlete's name.
Adding a new tab is simply clicking on the new event button and then filling out who belongs in this group.
This second page is the past workouts page. Here you can see the date at the top; pushing the arrows move them by day / week / month (Some interval).
Each event for that day is listed, expanding them gives you the time/stat that each athlete performed.
The 3rd slide I'd like to bring up is the results slide. Here, you select the date range that you'd like. Clicking may drop down a calendar widget or just allow input with assisted formatting. All members ever put on a workout on the program will be available for selection. There is also an all members checkbox next to the Members header. Then the coach can select which factor's to show the graph against. It could be date, it could be workout difficulty, it could be any factor that was detailed in the events section in another slide. More features can be fleshed out but this is a bare bones idea at the moment. The graph should update in real time as you add members or change the x-axis without much reloading. The transitions would also need to look smooth.
Design 2:
Goal: Standard use
*Design: *Focus on Extremely small display
Listed below is an example of the app on an iPhone. Much like an iPhone app, the menu bar is along the bottom in icons that detail what each tab does.
The first screenshot is how to take times. On the left is a list of all the events. Tapping one shows the members in the group. Tapping a time box allows users to type in a time via the iPhone layout. Then saving it will save one instance of that event time to the user.
The second screenshot is how to make workouts. Clicking the plus sign allows you to add a new event for the current workout. Then fill out the title, the distance/field event, the # of repetitions to be performed and the groups / individuals who are doing that portion of the workout.
The third screenshot is when viewing a profile of an athlete. It shows their name and groups they belong to. In addition, it shows all the events / times for that day. Clicking on the see more at the bottom will show previous days' workouts.
The final screenshot is the graphical trends interface. First idea is that the user can pick which athletes to include (multiple is allowed), what distance, and what x axis to run it along. When one of each field is selected, the graph will update, and clicking on the graph brings it to full screen. This is cluttered and needs to be refined as to how to get the best looking graph. maybe make the graphical trends interface multiple screens, selecting first event, then members, then axis. This allows you to filter down the available athletes to the pertinent event.
Design 3:
Goal: Tablet usage
Tyler Singer-Clark
*Currently out of town. Will update when he returns.
Raven Clayborn
Josh Duncavage
Mobile Interface:
This is an example of a mobile interface for coaches to input data regarding their athletes' workouts as well as make last minute adjustments.
Groups Page:
This can be considered a central page which allows coaches quick access to each athlete and group, as well as a link to begin recording times.
Training Page:
This is the primary page that coaches will use to record times and assign them to athletes in a group.
Workout Page:
This page shows the current workouts for each group, and allows coaches to make last minute changes to these workouts.
Athletes Page:
This is a page with the functionality to allow Coaches to see which athletes are members of which groups, and to change those associations if necessary.
