Elapse App Design

A robotics tournament asks teams to manage a lot at once: prepare the robot, find alliance partners, scout other teams, and arrive at the right field on time. During my four years competing, I experienced how delays and missed announcements could make that harder. Checking the schedule was another interruption when useful information was spread across multiple screens.

The original concept focused on three problems: finding key tournament information, understanding schedule changes, and receiving announcements. I proposed a personalized home screen, live timing, and an announcement feed with organizer controls. These ideas established the direction for Elapse; the released mobile app now centres on tournament mode, upcoming matches, and team scouting.

I organized the experience around a team's tournament day. The home screen surfaces the next match and upcoming schedule, with tournament search close by. From a match, a competitor can move into an alliance team's profile, see its ranking and record, and return to that team's matches. The flow map connects these routes so a schedule entry becomes a starting point for preparation.

Later designs extend that structure with dedicated tournament, scouting, and explore areas. Onboarding asks for a team number to personalize the experience and offers an option to continue without an account. Account creation is introduced alongside CloudScout, where syncing and sharing give competitors a concrete reason to sign in.

The next-match card gives the most immediate decision the strongest hierarchy. A large match number sits above the alliance teams, field, and start time. The upcoming list remains below it, so competitors can see what comes after without opening the full schedule. Search and the team's tournament context stay available around that priority.

Scouting expands Elapse beyond checking when to play. The CloudScout designs separate ScoutSheets from a personal picklist, giving teams a place to record observations and organize potential alliance partners. A team profile includes robot specifications, photos, scouted matches, and notes. Those fields connect the statistics a competitor can read to the observations they make at the event.

I also explored collaboration through TeamSync: shared scout data, group join codes, and member roles. The sharing designs make access visible, with controls to copy a link or stop sharing. TeamSync and the organizer portal remained concepts, while ScoutSheets became part of the released mobile app.

The interface uses a pale cyan frame, white content cards, and a pink highlight for the next match. Large match and team numbers anchor screens that contain many smaller statistics. Red and blue alliance colours reinforce the grouping already named in the headings. Consistent rows keep ranks, records, and points aligned as competitors compare teams.

The design file also covers light, dark, and system-following themes, onboarding choices, filters, and account settings. The original desktop concept carries the same hierarchy into a two-panel layout: the schedule stays on the left while selected information opens on the right. It documents the broader design direction, alongside the mobile screens that became the app.

Elapse launched on iOS in November 2024 and is also available on Android. The released app includes tournament mode, upcoming matches, and ScoutSheets. As co-founder and product designer, I led a team of eight through design and development. Elapse reached 3,500+ users globally.

This project brought together my experience as a competitor and my work as a designer. I wanted the app to stay useful in the rush of an event, so the next match remained the anchor as scouting and ranking tools expanded the scope. The early desktop, organizer, and sharing concepts remain part of the design exploration shown here.