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I designed, built, and released a native iOS app for adults over 50, including its exercise videos and audio.

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Role
Solo designer and developer
Studio
Dark Thirty Labs
Status
Live
Movable: choose a daily movement routine
Movable: follow a guided exercise
Movable: see completed routines
The challenge
Make a short daily movement routine easy to follow for adults over 50.
My contribution
I owned the product brief, interface, SwiftUI app, exercise content, and App Store release.
The result
Movable is available on the App Store, with guided routines, video demonstrations, and spoken instructions.
In this project

Design for a daily routine

After years designing health and fitness apps, I wanted to build one myself. I focused on adults over 50 who wanted a simple daily movement routine.

Conversations with older adults and their children shaped the brief. The user and the buyer could be different people. The app needed to serve the person following a routine and the family member buying it.

Keep the routine easy to follow

I designed short, guided routines with large type, clear contrast, generous touch targets, and VoiceOver support. The aim was to make each movement easy to follow without navigating a complex workout app.

I built the native iOS app in Swift and SwiftUI. I also designed the annual plan as a way for adult children to buy it for a parent.

Choose a daily movement routine.
Choose a daily movement routine.
Follow a guided exercise.
Follow a guided exercise.
Track completed routines.
Track completed routines.

Build the content with the app

I filmed myself performing each movement, then used Kling AI to create Margo, the exercise guide. Short generated clips needed careful transitions so longer movements could repeat smoothly.

I also produced the spoken guidance using an AI version of my wife's voice. Creating usable routines meant designing the movement, video, audio, and player together.

Movable exercise demonstration

From brief to App Store

Movable is available on the App Store. I took the product from the first conversations to a native app with guided routines, video, and spoken instructions.

The work extended beyond screens. A usable routine depended on the exercise, the pacing, the instructions, and the player working together. I owned those connections through release.

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