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The challenge
NeuroDrive helps athletes improve skills like balance, reaction time, eye movement, and focus through different assessments.
The client already had the clinical process and knew what each assessment should measure. Our job was to turn those requirements into a mobile experience athletes could complete on their own — without learning a new interface for every test.
The experience athletes complete on their own, one assessment at a time.
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My role
The client owned the clinical methods; I owned the product experience end to end — from information architecture to developer handoff. I made the structural calls that turned six fixed assessment specs into one coherent app, and drove those decisions across a team of another designer, the client, and the developers.
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Understanding the product
Every assessment measured a different skill, but the experience shouldn't feel different every time. Treating them as one system with six activities kept the learning curve low — and made the product easier to maintain and scale.
One shared experience, six activities inside it.
Same navigation, same patterns, same words — so learning one assessment means you already know the rest.
05 — What we realized
Athletes shouldn't have to learn each assessment. Learn one, and the rest already feel familiar.
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Key design decisions
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App structure
Mapping the structure first let me organise six assessments into one consistent experience while keeping navigation simple.
Onboarding
Assessment Hub
All six run through the same flow.
Results
Progress
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The product experience
Every assessment moves through the same five steps. Only the assessment itself changes — the rest of the experience stays familiar.
The assessment step
Only the assessment screen changes state — idle, active, complete.
The surrounding experience
Everything around the assessment stays the same, every time.
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05 · The bigger picture
Multiple assessments combine to build a longitudinal performance profile for coaches and athletes.
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Results & AI insights
After every assessment, NeuroDrive generates a NeuroScore by combining multiple cognitive and physical performance signals. NeuroCoach transforms those results into understandable strengths, weaknesses, and personalized next steps — helping athletes improve without interpreting complex data.
One score synthesized from multiple assessments for a quick understanding of overall performance.
Transforms raw performance data into clear, personalized recommendations.
Guides athletes toward their next session by focusing on their weakest performance areas.
10 — What I learned
Designing six neuroscience assessments taught me that in a specialist domain, my job wasn't to simplify the science. It was to hold one consistent experience steady while six clinical teams each optimised their own.
If I return to NeuroDrive, I'd test the instruction screens with real athletes — the seconds right before a test starts are where trust in the whole system is won or lost.
