Evolve is an adaptive strength training app built for athletes who want more than cookie-cutter workouts. It combines customizable training with AI-driven insights, helping both hardcore lifters and everyday gym-goers push further, track progress, and break new ground.
I joined Evolve as an assistant designer and quickly became the sole product designer responsible for the entire experience. From design system foundations to feature overhauls and brand new launches, I led end-to-end design with a clear vision: make training more intuitive, engaging, and comprehensive than any other app on the market.
Here’s a high level look at four key projects that shaped Evolve — the problems they tackled, and the impact they had on real athletes.
Year
2022-2025
Team
Aman Maharjan, Garrett Blevins
Overall, Evolve gained real product-level clarity, a scalable system behind the UI, and a more intuitive experience that helps people get into training with less friction. From the training engine to the brand, every update contributed to a product that feels more polished, consistent, and ready to grow.
Training is the core experience athletes use in Evolve. I began with a critical review of the inconsistencies and problems with the previous design, along with user feedback from what athletes needed while training.
Tracking Your Training
Previous Design
These and many other early decisions began to shape the app into what it is today: more streamlined with better information hierarchy, more space, and clearer actions.
Adjustments
With such a core experience, it was important to get it right
I learned that the tech stack and back-end matters tremendously for what we're able to build: we have to ideate, and then validate with our devs to align on the product.
I learned the value of reducing. Product design isn't always about adding: it can be able taking away, simplifying, giving breathing room, negative space.
Lastly, I learned I might never be satisfied with a product. There is no end point, no finish line to cross. There's always another idea to pursue, another way of adding value, of iterating. We just have to ship and put our best work out there, and keep building.
For powerlifters, data isn't extra: it's how they train. It forms the backbone of making intelligent training decisions. I built dashboard that turned raw numbers into insights athletes could act on.
We gave users power. From personal records, performance over time to sleep data, readiness, session difficulty, and overall training program metrics, they could connect what they did with why they did it — keeping them engaged and in control.
Evolved launched nutrition with the technical basics of a usable product (targets, a food database, logging), but lacked actual usability. in place but far less thought for usability.
It was clunky, frustrating, and quickly compared (unfavorably) to purpose-built nutrition apps. The team realized too late that they couldn't remove the feature, but had bitten off more than they could chew.
I redesigned the logging to optimize for speed and comprehension, while differentiating from the market in user-centric ways.
I redesigned nutrition to be fast, comprehensible, and athlete-centered. It now solves many of the problems food loggers overlook as the other half of an integrated coach-like experience.
Dashboards should show, not do. But Evolve's first dashboard blurred that line by being the place people launched into workouts from. It also had visualizations that look pretty but were actually just fake data designed to convey a broad idea. This loses trust.
I reorganized content and set the dashboard up for personalization specific to what a user needs. It now functions as a true hub of context for users.
Adjusting the dashboard was less about design and more about information architecture—getting people to what they need to see quicker and easier.
It opens up the roadmap for expansion and personalization and smaller improvements in the months and years ahead.
1.
Big changes happen slowly.
Whether it's to ease users into a new feature for continuity, or for the sake of development, it's not just about designing the final version of a feature, but all of the transition steps along the way.
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Organizations who lead with design excel.
Design is shorthand for deliberate and intentional care for users. It's no surprise then that companies who care about the people who want to buy their product end up succeeding.
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Design education creates better alignment.
Often times as I'm describing a feature or why a specific part of the app isn't working, I lean on design principles. I like to bring other stakeholders along with me, explaining some of the foundations of design. That way they're empowered to see things through design with their own eyes.