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Pace

Pace

Pace

A running coach that reads your legs, not just your watch.

A running coach that reads your legs, not just your watch.

Client

Pace Running, London

Category

Sport & fitness

Platform

iOS · watchOS

Timeline

11 weeks

Year

2025

Overview

01

Mid-run, nobody reads. Pace needed a live screen you can understand in a half-second glance at 5 a.m.

Mid-run, nobody reads. Pace needed a live screen you can understand in a half-second glance at 5 a.m.

Mid-run, nobody reads. Pace needed a live screen you can understand in a half-second glance at 5 a.m.

The challenge

Mid-run, nobody reads. Pace needed a live screen you can understand in a half-second glance at 5 a.m.

What we did

One number, huge. Everything else is secondary and shaped like a route. The plan adapts to how your legs felt, and every personal best gets a moment worth sharing.

Key screens

iOS · watchOS

Live run

Plan

Summary

Identity

03

A brand that works at 60 pixels.

A brand that works at 60 pixels.

A brand that works at 60 pixels.

The icon, the palette and the type were designed together with the interface, so the app looks like itself everywhere: home screen, store, notification.

App icon · 1024 px

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Barlow Condensed + Barlow

Asphalt

Night

Signal

Chalk

Delivered

04

Deliverables

  • Live run UI

  • watchOS companion

  • Training plan flows

  • Motion + haptics

  • App Store screenshots

  • Launch film storyboard

Team

  • Rui Carvalho — Motion

  • Tomás Reis — Product design

  • Inês Duarte — Design direction

The unglamorous state

05

We designed the screen nobody screenshots.

We designed the screen nobody screenshots.

We designed the screen nobody screenshots.

The calm summary after a hard run

The moment that decides whether someone trusts the app enough to open it again tomorrow.

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Let’s design an app people keep.

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Appkeep

Independent app design studio.

Rua da Boavista 84, Lisbon.

© 2026 Appkeep

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Let’s design an app people keep.

Tell us about your app in a sentence. We reply within two working days.

Appkeep

Independent app design studio.

Rua da Boavista 84, Lisbon.

© 2026 Appkeep

Designed by Riyad Sbeitan · Made in Framer

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