Health Status: Translating Data Into a Clear Health Story
Project Summary
Garmin collects some of the richest biometric data in the industry, but users were previously left to interpret multiple disconnected metrics without clear guidance. With Health Status, we transformed that experience by unifying these signals into an intuitive feature, helping users quickly recognize early signs of illness, elevated stress, or physiological strain.
I led the end-to-end design across the mobile and web apps, partnering closely with the wearable designer and cross-functional teams to define a cohesive, cross-platform experience. The result connects once-siloed data into a single, actionable health story, strengthening Garmin’s competitive position against Apple, Fitbit, Oura, and Whoop.
Team
Design, Wearables, Engineering, Research, Product, Marketing
Feature Launch
September 2025
My Role
Design Lead
Duration
5 Weeks
Outcomes
Industry recognition: Venu 4 received a 2026 CES Innovation Award from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, recognizing innovation in health technology and user experience. Health Status was a core part of the product’s health narrative and launch experience.
Meaningful market adoption: The Venu 4 launch brought hundreds of thousands of new customers into the Garmin ecosystem. Health Status contributed to this momentum by delivering a clearer, more competitive health insight experience aligned with evolving user expectations.
The Challenge
Garmin collects some of the richest health data on the market — but users had to manually interpret multiple disparate metrics, often without clarity or guidance.
Key problems:
Metrics lived independently with no unifying interpretation
Users couldn’t easily tell if they were in their “normal day-to-day” range
The experience had to work across the mobile app, web app, and smartwatch
We had five weeks to design the entire feature
Impact
User
Users gained a simple, trustworthy way to understand early signs of illness
The feature became a cohesive “story layer” on top of complex physiological data
Reduction in ambiguity and interpretation burden
Strong early engagement signals
Business
Positioned Garmin competitively with modern health insight offerings
Created a reusable model for future health features
Strengthened internal alignment across physiology, PM, design, wearable, and marketing
The Feature
Detect Illness Early
Health Status continuously monitors users’ core biometric patterns and flags meaningful deviations from their personal baseline. When early signs of illness or strain appear, users receive an intelligent alert paired with an AI-generated summary that translates complex data into a simple, actionable explanation, right from the home dashboard.
A Daily Health Snapshot
Each day, users get a clean, unified snapshot showing how their key metrics compare to their typical ranges. Clear in-range and out-of-range indicators help users instantly understand what’s stable and what’s shifting. Users can scroll through historical days to visualize patterns, track recovery, and build a deeper understanding of their body over time.
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If users want more context, each metric opens into a detailed view complete with trends, historical comparisons, personalized insights, and defined health ranges. These deep-dives turn raw numbers into meaningful explanations.