A smart running shoe paired with a mobile app that gives runners real time feedback on gait, foot pressure, and injury risk. This project covers the full design process, from user research to interaction design and UI.
Most runners don't notice gait issues until they're already injured, because there's no simple way to see what's happening beneath their feet.
Questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with young urban runners to understand their habits, expectations, and attitudes toward wearable sports technology.
Active, urban runner. Joins sports classes regularly and cares about health, performance, and staying motivated.
To better understand how gait issues develop during everyday running and how StepSense supports behavior change, the following scenario illustrates a typical user journey.
The form language of StepSense draws from Raksh, the legendary horse of Persian mythology, translating its muscular structure and dynamic movement into the shoe's silhouette.
The curved lines of the horse's muscular structure were translated into the shoe's silhouette and structural lines.
StepSense integrates pressure sensing smart insoles with an intuitive mobile interface to detect gait imbalance early and guide users toward safer movement patterns.
The footwear design translates biomechanical requirements into a lightweight running shoe platform, embedding distributed pressure sensors within the sole structure.
The StepSense app visualizes pressure distribution, gait risk indicators, and shoe health metrics, enabling users to monitor performance, adjust posture, and share reports with healthcare professionals.
StepSense was designed as a UX Designer working across the full process, from questionnaire and interview based user research, through the symbolic form concept and sketch development, to the final mobile interface and feedback loop, using Figma, Illustrator, and InDesign.
The project shows how wearable technology can combine functional feedback with emotional product design.
By bringing together biomechanical analysis and symbolic inspiration, the concept connects performance, health awareness, and identity within a single product system.
The design explores how technology can support runners not only through data, but also through meaningful interaction and motivation.