Pulse
Your smart mirror workout buddy.
- UX Design
- Product Design
- Prototyping
- Research
Gesture-driven fitness coaching for student athletes — personalized plans, Google Calendar-aware scheduling, and a live interactive prototype built for the mirror, not the phone.
Pulse is a smart-mirror fitness companion for student athletes — personalized workout plans, calendar-aware scheduling, and distance-friendly gesture controls so you can start a session without touching a screen.
The project spans research, habit-formation framing, usability testing, and a fully interactive prototype exploring pinch-to-select, dwell interactions, and Google Calendar integration for finding real workout windows between classes.
Project Overview
Client
Concept · Smart Mirror Fitness (Academic)
Industry
Health / Fitness · Gesture UX · Habit Formation
Timeline
Multi-week · Solo
My role
UX research, interaction design, prototyping
Core idea
A mirror that coaches you — not another phone app fighting for attention between lectures.
Key interaction
AirTap gestures — point, pinch, and dwell so sweaty hands never need the glass.
Smart scheduling
Google Calendar sync to surface open slots for workouts in a packed student week.
Shipped artifact
Live interactive prototype — onboarding through workout completion, in the browser.
Overview
Problem & opportunity
Student athletes know consistency matters — but motivation drops when workouts feel bolted onto an already overloaded schedule. Most fitness tools assume you'll open a phone app, log in, and manually plan around classes and meetings.
Pulse reframes fitness as ambient coaching on a shared dorm mirror: quick sessions, calendar-aware suggestions, and interactions designed for distance — not touch.
Research & testing
Research covered fitness-tech habit formation, prototyping plans, and moderated usability sessions. Testing surfaced where gesture tutorials needed to be clearer, how users interpreted plan recommendations, and what 'good enough' scheduling felt like when calendar data was sparse.
Full research artifacts live in the project deck — this page is a visual snapshot while the written case study is still in progress.
Design
Mirror experience
The UI system balances glanceability at mirror distance with playful energy — sky gradients, bold plan cards, and a workout loop that keeps form feedback and rest timers legible from across the room.
Selected screens below; the live prototype is the best way to feel the gesture layer and end-to-end flow.
Live prototype
Hi, welcome to Pulse — your smart mirror workout buddy! Fully interactive concept: onboarding, personalized plans, calendar sync, gesture tutorials, and a complete workout loop.
Open Pulse prototype ↗Reflection
Pulse is the project closest to where I want my career to go — product UX that meets people in physical space, not just on a phone. The live prototype is early and imperfect, but it proves the loop: onboard, connect your calendar, pick a plan, and work out with gestures that actually make sense at arm's length. Next I'd validate whether calendar-suggested slots change real adherence in a dorm setting.