Google Nest Fit
A multi-functional home fitness system that is designed to blend into the home.
THE TEAM
Sangyu Xi / Industrial Design + UI design + UI animation
Son Hoang / Industrial Design + In-context animation
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MY ROLE
Ideate and develop the concept of the Nest Fit TV, CAD, and prototyping.
Design the user interface and the animation of the product.
Conduct user research, concept validation, and user testing.
Design and build the VR experience showroom of the system.
Year
2021
Home fitness has gained in popularity since the COVID lockdown,
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however, most exercisers have run into the following challenges...
Safety
Having heavy fitness equipment at home poses a potential hazard for curious young children at home.
Lacking space
​A lot of families have concerns for having fitness equipment and accessories at home as they are chunky and doesn’t fit into the home environment.
Lacking guidance
Your peers or professional in the gym couldn’t give you guidance on how to protect yourself from workout injury.
Lacking machinery
You couldn’t work out on treadmill or with 50kg dumbbells at home just like in the gym. Even if you bought those, storage could be a big problem.
Not motivated
Without working out with your peers and the atmosphere, people could be unmotivated to continue work out.
Competitor analysis
Tonal
Full body workout
Access to more than 170 moves, and amplifies your training with Smart Accessories.
Digital Weight
Lift up to 200 pounds, in one-pound increments.
Mirror
Blend into home
With a small footprint and elegant design, The Mirror blends seamlessly into your home.
Connection
Make a sweat date with friends or compete against the community.
Compact
All-in-one storage.
Smart tracking
Tempo’s 3D sensors capture your movements as you work out. Then our AI gives you instant feedback to help you improve.
Tempo
Problem statement
Chunky
The majority of home fitness equipment is bulky and solely functions as an exercise tool, discouraging consumers with limited living space.
Gym-like design
The design, which seems like it belongs in a gym, makes the equipment hard to mix into a residential environment and disrupts the ambiance.
Low performance
The fitness screen performs similarly to a large TV playing a YouTube video without the use of equipment, posture feedback, and a touch screen.
Inefficient feedback
The user can only receive illustration-style feedback after the posture has been analysed, which is not intuitive or accurate for them to improve the posture.
Low variety
Dumbbells, bicycle, resistance string, or boutique clas... The majority of home fitness equipment is dedicated to a single workout.
Design objectives
Personalized
The program keeps track of progress, and recommends exercise program based on the exerciser’s level and improvement.
Motivating
The program allows user to open a community by themselves with only their friends and gives them positive feedback when they accomplish their goals.
Accurate feedback
Image recognition and heat sensor allow us to capture movement, action then analyze and make sense of it.
Multifunctional
The product allows the user to use it for several types of personal training, gamified group workout and streaming service.
Home product
The hardware blends into the rest of the home perfectly with furniture-like appearance.
Persona
CMF
Ideation
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TV
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Handle
Workout bench
Part-assembly strategy
Prototype
Iterations
Orthographic view
TV
Perfectly horizontal
The back mounting piece is made of sheet metal and contains a snap-in position for a bubble level, which makes it easier for the
user to install the TV.
Easy installation
The user simply snaps the TV into the rotating mechanism, which rotates according to the mode selected.
Snap-in cord storage
When the TV spins, the snap-in cable storage design prevents the cable from swinging around and falling off.
Accurate & fast feedback
Equipped with Intel® RealSense Depth Camera D435i and a heat sensor, Nest Fit delivers the most precise and immediate posture feedback.
Ever.
Switchable visibility
The smart glass that lies between the mirror sheet and the OLED display allows the user to see the reflected screen for personal training while still enjoying a non-reflective screen for Netflix.
Spins for more
Nest Fit may be utilized as a television, a fitness screen for gamified group workouts, or for personal training by spinning 90 degrees.
Exploded view
Teammate's work scope
Smart weight
Hassle-free weight adjustment
No need to move around the iron piece - the dial features automatic knob rotation to change resistance. The dial coordinates with a motor in the interior to apply resistance in 0.5 lbs. increments.
Modular attachment
Simply push the smart-weight against the bridge and it will be locked in. This allows the smart weight to be attached to other components for workout flexibility.
Workout bench
Flexible weight location
The smart weight can be attached to a groove on the training bench by raising the bench using the levers on either ends. This allows the smart weight to be placed in a variety of positions for varied training.
Simply pull for everything
It’s no longer necessary to use two hands to change the backrest’s angle or open the front storage like always.
UI CMF
We have created 30+ screens for wireframes to represent the interface layout,
the flow between the screens and its functional representations.
Fun, intuitive and beloved
The user interface is vibrant, intuitive, and easy to fall in love with. It was built using Google design languages and does an excellent job of assisting our users in interacting with our physical products.
VR gallery
We brought the scene into Oculus virtual reality gallery for validation test. 5 out of 5 audiences reflect that the scale fits them and they're very excited about the experience.
