Case StudyFitness UXStrategy

Case Study: Strategy-First Redesign of a Global Fitness App

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Strategy & Vision

Nike Run Club and Nike Training Club are among the world's most widely used fitness apps. Their scale makes them unusually instructive for a structured UX redesign — millions of active users means millions of real behavioural signals to analyse.

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Execution & Design

ARCHECO's approach begins with experience scenario mapping: constructing detailed narratives of how specific user types engage with the app across their fitness journey, revealing tension between motivational aspirations and critical daily interaction friction.

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Impact & Growth

The most significant finding: the transition from passive tracking to active coaching — where the app shifts from recording what a user did to guiding what they should do next — was consistently the point of highest cognitive friction.

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Conclusion

Our proposed interventions targeted the motivational jo

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