AONAR is a fitness-tech startup focused on helping individuals rebuild strength, discipline, and confidence after personal or emotional setbacks. The platform blends physical training, emotional resilience, and tech wearables, AI motion analysis, and community accountability.
This UX and brand design project involved building AONAR from concept to launch ready prototype: developing the identity, user personas, product architecture, and interface for a platform that motivates users to “Train Alone. Rise Together.”
AONAR is a fitness tech platform built to help individuals rebuild strength, confidence, and discipline through design, data, and purpose. The goal was to create an emotionally intelligent training ecosystem for people navigating life transitions. One such example as divorce, burnout, or recovery.
By uniting physical performance with mental resilience.This project focused on building the foundation for a multi-modal fitness and recovery experience, blending wearable integration, AI motion feedback, and emotional journaling into a cohesive, motivational platform. The work included brand identity, UX architecture, and a functional MVP prototype, all centered on the AONAR mantra: “Train Alone. Rise Together.”
User Interviews
Market Research
Pain Point Mapping
(Fitness + Emotional Recovery)
Persona Development
User Stories
Journey Mapping
(Trigger → Recovery → Empowerment)
Sketching
Experience Mapping
Low to Mid-Fidelity Wireframes (App + Wearable Integration)
Visual Id & StyleGuide
High-Fidelity
Prototype
Micro-Interactions
Onboarding Animations
The spark for AONAR came from my belief that strength is built in solitude, but no one should have to recover alone. After witnessing how many people lose their sense of purpose and identity following divorce, burnout, or trauma, I wanted to design a platform that helps them rebuild both body and mind.
AONAR was created to transform pain into discipline, merging fitness, design, and technology into a system of self-rescue. Every feature is designed to remind users that growth starts the moment they decide to stand back up.
I created multiple personas to represent the types of users AONAR was designed to serve. These profiles helped define the emotional and motivational spectrum of our audience, people rebuilding strength, identity, and structure after major life transitions. Each persona reflects a different recovery journey and fitness mindset, allowing us to design an experience that speaks to both resilience and personal growth. Here are a few examples.
After defining core user needs and emotional goals, I began shaping both the physical and digital experience of AONAR. The process started with sketches and 3D concept modeling of the wearable, focusing on comfort, placement, and integration with motion tracking. In parallel, I developed rough Figma mockups to explore how the app could visualize data from the device in a motivating and human way. These explorations helped align the hardware and software experience into a single, cohesive ecosystem.
The final wearable concept brings AONAR’s philosophy of resilience and discipline into physical form. Designed for comfort, motion tracking, and seamless integration with the digital platform, the device features a minimal aesthetic that balances precision engineering with emotional subtlety. The 3D renders showcase the evolution from early sketches to refined models, highlighting material exploration, proportion studies, and the transition from analog ideation to digital realization.
The AONAR mobile interface translates the wearable’s physical purpose into a digital experience. Designed in Figma, the app focuses on guided recovery, habit tracking, and emotional reflection. Each screen reinforces AONAR's core value: discipline through design. Blending strength metrics, journaling, and motivational visuals into one unified ecosystem.
Through interviews with individuals navigating recovery from divorce and personal loss, clear emotional patterns emerged. Participants described fitness not just as exercise, but as a means of regaining control, structure, and self-worth. Many expressed frustration with generic fitness apps that failed to acknowledge the emotional dimension of rebuilding ones life.
"After my divorce, I wanted to feel like myself again. Not just physically, but mentally. I didn’t need another gym app. I needed direction.
"The gym helps me stay sane, but some days it's just me fighting my own thoughts. Having a way to track that progress would mean a lot."
"Everything out there is about metrics. I want something that understands where I'm at and helps me stay consistent."
"Working out became the one part of my day I could control. It reminded me that I still had power, even when everything else felt uncertain."
These insights informed AONAR’s core principle: design shouldn’t just measure strength, it should help rebuild it.