Liam McMahonWork 




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Stride Running
Product Design
Timeline: May — June 2024
Role: Design, Stratgey, User Research, Prototyping
Helping runners enhance their performance and endurance while maintaining health and wellness.











Challenge:
Running is a high impact sport, and without the right guidance, it’s easy to overtrain. Many runners end up injured, frustrated, and unsure how to train safely. 


Solution: Design a mobile experience that uses data to help runners push their training limits without getting injured. 






Key Features



Data-Driven Onboarding

By collecting core training metrics during onboarding, the app immediately provides personalized feedback designed to reduce injury risk from a user’s first activity.

Smart Alerts

Users are notified during workouts when they’ve exceeded their normal mileage and may be at risk of overtraining. The feature encourages safer training habits by prompting them to start a cooldown or continue at their discretion.


Competitive Analysis
Through a competitive market analysis of current leading running apps including Strava, Nike Run Club, Runna, AllTrails, Map My Run, and Garmin I found that most prioritize social engagement and exploration features, while none offer tools specifically fitted toward injury prevention. This gap highlighted a clear opportunity to focus my solution on proactive injury-prevention support.



User Research
Conducting user research with participants that use running apps allowed me to come up with core principles that help define how runners can have a more rewarding experience while using running apps.



Injury Prevention 

All users reported experiencing some level of injury during training, with some even choosing not to seek medical care. Providing quick access to common injury information can help athletes stay informed and train more safely.

Rest days

Users consistently noted that rest days are easy to overlook, especially when their feeds are filled with 
others activity. Highlighting rest days more intentionally, supported by data that demonstrates their impact on performance, can help address this gap.Data Driven

Users find motivation in tracking their running statistics and seeing data visualized. Data can be used to help athletes understand when overtraining and injuries 
may occur. 


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