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The products, platforms and everyday interactions behind the logos. Selected work from Next Epic and our founders’ experience across digital fitness.
Our work spans consumer apps, booking platforms, connected equipment, wearable experiences and the tools that fitness professionals use to run their businesses. This selection includes Next Epic projects and earlier work by our founders. Roles are identified where a project was completed as a consultant, co-founder or while at SprintFWD.
These summaries describe the work and its context. They do not imply that Next Epic built every part of each brand’s platform.
Myodetox
Working closely with company leadership, we designed and built a personalized content and exercise app from scratch for Myodetox. The product extended the physical therapy business into a digital experience, with the aim of increasing engagement with the brand.
Product design · App development
Life Fitness
We helped Life Fitness improve its software product experience by redesigning the consumer app and the customer asset management platform. The work covered two different audiences: people using the consumer product and customers managing assets.
Consumer app design · Asset management platform
Les Mills
Our work on the Les Mills on-demand platform focused on personalization, reducing choice complexity and improving the overall user experience. It addressed how people find their way through workout content and choose a session that is relevant to them.
Workout discovery · Personalization · UX design
GAIN
As startup founders, we pioneered guided mobile workouts that reached more than a million iPhone users. We also launched a connected personal trainer service. The experience brought together workout guidance and mobile interaction around personal training.
Mobile workouts · Connected personal training
Founding-team experience.
Xponential
We designed Apple Watch apps to check into and track classes across Xponential studio brands, including Pure Barre, Club Pilates, Row House, CycleBar and YogaSix. The work brought class participation and workout tracking into a wearable experience.
Apple Watch · Class check-in · Workout tracking
Work completed while at SprintFWD.
Equinox
As a consultant to Equinox, Nick improved the user experience around class booking, the most frequently used functionality in the app. This work focused on a central member journey rather than a description of the entire Equinox platform.
Class booking · UX design
Nick’s consulting work for Equinox.
TRX
We helped create TRX CORE, an all-in-one business management platform for personal trainers and fitness professionals. It brought together tools to manage schedules, customers and payments and to deliver virtual personal training.
Trainer software · Scheduling · Payments · Virtual training
Work completed while at SprintFWD.
MYX Fitness
Nick co-founded MYX Fitness and helped build the initial team, recording studio, equipment set, tablet computer and software experience. The work took the product from scratch to its first 100 beta units. The company exited through a merger and IPO in 2021.
Connected equipment · Workout content · Tablet experience
Nick’s work as a co-founder of MYX Fitness.
Sköp
We designed an integrated workout console app for an extra-large tablet on a new category of direct-to-consumer home fitness equipment. The project connected the on-screen workout experience with the context of exercising on the equipment.
Connected fitness · Console app · Product design
Swerve
Working with a New York City fitness studio, we designed a multi-screen interactive experience for a new franchise business model. It combined livestreaming with in-studio workouts and wrist-based in-class interactivity.
Livestreaming · Studio experience · Wearables
Instructrr
We built and launched the Instructrr app for cycling instructors to plan classes and synchronize moves with music. Our work also included designing tools that enable instructors to offer virtual personal and group training.
Class planning · Music synchronization · Virtual training
XPASS
We helped create XPASS, Xponential’s multi-brand booking pass. The digital marketplace included dynamic pricing, consumer booking apps, acquisition marketing, internal reporting and administration tools. The work connected the customer experience with the operations behind the service.
Booking marketplace · Consumer apps · Internal tools
Work completed while at SprintFWD.
WeightWatchers
As a consultant at WW, Nick helped improve the search experience for food tracking, its highest-use feature. Improvements included autocomplete, interface upgrades and user experience benchmarking. The focus was a specific everyday interaction within the wider product.
Search · Autocomplete · UX benchmarking
Nick’s consulting work at WeightWatchers.
The common thread is the relationship between a digital product and the fitness experience it supports. Sometimes that means simplifying a heavily used flow; sometimes it means connecting an app, equipment and content into a new offering.
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