Putting the whole app on one screen.

01 — Overview

The screen everyone opens first.

Vantage Fit is the app side of our corporate wellness platform — where employees track steps, join challenges, log activity, and keep an eye on their health. The home screen is the part they land on every single day, so it carries a lot of weight: it sets the tone, and it decides which parts of the app people actually notice.

I worked on this as the UI/UX designer for the home screen, with an earlier version to evolve from and direction from a senior designer on the team. It's the first product screen I've shipped, and a very different muscle from the marketing site I'd done before.

02 — The problem

Good features, hard to find.

The old home had been around for the better part of a decade — roughly seven or eight years — and it showed. There was just a lot of it: everything sat in a long vertical list, so you scrolled and scrolled, and even then a fair number of the app's features never showed up on home at all. They lived a tab or two away, which meant most people never bumped into them. The style had aged out of step with where the product was heading, too.

• Too much scrolling to get through a single screen
• Plenty of features were missing from home entirely
• What you could see felt like a list, not a snapshot
• The visual style had aged

03 — The idea

One screen, a window into everything.

So that became the bet: bring almost every feature in the app up onto home, each as its own compact card. Not the whole feature — just enough to glance at and tap into. Your steps, your challenge, where you rank, your health numbers, what your colleagues are up to. The goal was plain: discoverability and usage. If people can see a feature, they'll use it.

What earned a spot — and what didn't — wasn't only my call. It came out of client feedback, a look at what similar apps were doing, and decisions from our product team. And it's built to keep growing: we're already planning to add more to home over time.

04 — What's on home now

Each card is a doorway.

The screen reads top to bottom as a snapshot of your day, then your standing, then the people around you. Every card shows just enough to be useful at a glance, and opens into the full feature when you tap it.

• Summary — one ring pulling steps and active minutes into a single glance
• Challenges — the challenge you're in, your rank, how far along you are
• Weekly trends — steps and active minutes this week against last
• Leaderboard & League — where you stand, and the next league to climb to
• Vitals & Health — the numbers that matter, like fasting sugar and lifestyle score
• Badges — what you've earned so far
• Highlights — your colleagues' recent workouts, routes and badges, with reactions
• Support — help, one tap away

05 — A note on order

Closest to home first.

The sequence isn't random. It starts with you — your activity, your challenge, your trend lines — because that's what you came to check. Then it widens out to how you're doing against everyone else, your health, and finally what your colleagues have been up to. The social Highlights feed and the league were a bigger push on community and a little friendly competition than the old home had, and that was intentional.

06 — Where it stands

It shipped — and it's only the start.

The new home screen is live, and the early feedback has been genuinely good. It did the thing we wanted: more of the app is visible, and people are finding features they used to miss. On the back of that, we've now taken on the rest of the app — bringing the same approach to the other screens, and adding richer analytics with proper graphs and stats so people can actually see their progress over time.

07 — What it taught me

Designing inside something real.

The marketing site taught me how to ship. This taught me how to design inside a living product — one with an existing design system I had to work within, real users with habits, and a senior whose judgement I learned a lot from. The hardest and most useful part was the editing: deciding what's worth a spot on the screen people see most, and what can wait a tap away. That's a muscle I'll use on every product screen after this one.