Kids’ Sports Journey Mobile Application
A mobile sports-record platform built around one simple idea: a child’s sporting development is more than a collection of events.
Project Overview & Metadata
Lead UI/UX Designer
2 Months
Mobile Experience (iOS · Android)
Parents, Younger Children (<15), Older Children (15–18)
Problem Definition
Challenge
Children's sporting information was spread across activities, training sessions, competitions, goals, statistics and achievements. The challenge was to bring these different moments together into one experience that could show progress over time, without turning the app into a complicated record keeping tool.
Key Pain Points & Complexities
Strategic Foundation
Product Thinking
Rather than treating training, goals, competitions and achievements as separate features, I approached them as connected parts of one sporting journey helping families understand not only what happened, but how the athlete is progressing.
One Sporting Record
Bring everyday activities, goals, competitions, statistics and achievements together so the athlete's development can be understood over time.
Goals With Progress
Turn goals into active journeys with milestones, target dates and progress giving both parent and child a clearer sense of what they are working towards.
Beyond the Score
Combine performance statistics with journals, reflections and achievements to capture the effort, learning and development behind each sporting experience.
Target Users
Parent
A central view of children’s sporting activities, goals, training, events, statistics and achievements supporting progress without requiring parents to manage every detail.
Younger Child (under 15)
A parent-managed experience where sporting activities, goals, training and achievements can be recorded and organised as part of the child's developing journey.
Older Child (15–18)
A more independent experience where the child can create and manage their own sporting records while remaining connected to the family experience.
Core Goals
Connect training, goals, reflection, progress and achievements into one journey
Make a complex family permission model feel simple and understandable
Preserve competition, training and achievement history
Give parents overview without creating information overload
Constraints
Child online privacy and data ownership boundaries
Different levels of participation and ownership by age
Large amount of sporting information within a mobile interface
Balancing detailed records with quick everyday interactions
Multiple sports, events and activity types
Architecture & Information Architecture
Ecosystem & Information Architecture
The information architecture was organised around the athlete's sporting journey, separating everyday activities from the goals, reflections, statistics and achievements that build a longer-term record.
Governs household membership, account synchronization, and permission levels.
Captures the athlete’s athletic development loop, milestones, and reflections.
User Journey & Workflows
User Flow & Permission Hierarchy
FAMILY ACCOUNT
The starting point for managing the family and connecting the people involved in the athlete's sporting journey.
Family Code: connects parents and children to the same family account.
Explicitly supports separated parents: both Parent 1 and Parent 2 can use the same Family Code to connect to the family account and track their children's sporting journey independently.
PARENT
- Full administrative control over family settings
- Create goals, training and events
- Can add, edit & delete all younger child (<15) sporting records
- Can add records to older child (15–18) timeline
- Can edit/delete only parent-created records on older child timeline
- At-a-glance overview without information overload
- Connect another parent through the Family Code
YOUNGER CHILD
Parent Managed- Parent has full control over the child's sporting records
- Parent can add, edit, and delete training, events, goals & trophies
- Connected via Family Code without needing standalone credentials
- Child accesses a simplified view of upcoming training & achievements
OLDER CHILD
Increasing ownership- Child can create and manage their own sporting records
- Parent can still add records to child's timeline
- Parent can edit/delete records created by the parent
- Parent cannot edit or delete records created by the older child
The permission model was designed around ownership of information, not simply access allowing parents to support the journey while giving older children increasing control over their own records..
SPORTING JOURNEY
ACTIVITY
Training sessions, competitions, tournaments and sporting events captured in one place.
GOALS
Personal targets broken into milestones with progress and target dates.
PROGRESS
Statistics, completed milestones and activity history show development over time.
ACHIEVEMENT
Medals, trophies, awards and personal achievements become part of the sporting record.
JOURNEY
A connected history of participation, development and achievement across the athlete's sporting experience.
Architectural Rationale
Design Decisions
Make the Sporting Journey the Core
Instead of organising the experience around isolated features, the structure connects activities, goals, progress and achievements into one continuous record.
Turn Goals Into Measurable Progress
Goals become more useful when broken into milestones, target dates and progress making improvement visible rather than leaving goals as static entries.
Connect Activities With Development
Training and competition records become meaningful when they contribute to a larger picture of what the athlete is working towards and how they are progressing.
Keep Performance Beyond the Score
Statistics capture what happened. Journals and reflections help capture the context, effort and learning behind those numbers.
Make Achievements Easy to Preserve
The Trophy Cabinet brings medals, trophies, awards and other achievements into one place, creating a lasting record of the athlete's journey.
Support Growing Independence
The experience adapts to different levels of ownership, allowing parents to manage younger children's records while giving older children greater control over their own sporting information.
Impact & Results
Outcome
The final experience brings training, events, goals, milestones, statistics, reflections and achievements into one connected sporting record, giving families a clearer way to track development over time.
Connected Sporting Journey
Goals & Milestone Tracking
Training & Event Records
Competition Statistics
Centralised Trophies & Achievements
Progress Without Information Overload
“A sporting journey is built from many small moments, a training session, a new goal, a competition, a personal best or a first trophy. The design brought those moments together into a single experience that makes progress easier to capture, understand and celebrate.”