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steps
A tablet app that helps choreographers keep track of their moves.
steps is a tablet app that helps choreographers build routines. Music analysis, counts, freestyle recordings, sequences and transitions come together in one timeline, so a change no longer means filming the whole dance again.
Research
We interviewed four choreographers, Kenya, Jacob, Lina and Miriam, who teach different styles and levels. Still, their process follows the same pattern:
Choose the song 
Freestyle and film 
Revise and connect 
Record the final video
It starts with a song, chosen with the group’s level, style and mood in mind. They listen to it on repeat, mapping out the chorus, beat drops, mood changes, lyrics and counts. Then they freestyle to single passages and only film once they’ve danced them a few times.
Video is their central medium, but nobody has a system for it. Good moments aren’t cut out of the footage. They’re spotted while watching, remembered and danced again. Transitions between eight-counts take the most time, because they only take shape by trying, changing and joining passages. In the end, a clean final video becomes the basis for remembering, adjusting and teaching the routine.
Design sprint
The interviews left us with three questions. How might we make re-recording easier? How might we make transitions between sequences easier? And how might we help someone find a sequence quickly, even mid-lesson?
We took them into a five-day design sprint. On Monday we clustered the interviews. On Tuesday we sketched ideas with Crazy 8s. On Wednesday we decided on a user story and drew wireframes. On Thursday we built a prototype in Figma, and on Friday we tested it with two choreographers using think-aloud.
Solution
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Freestyle, then cut out what works
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Change a section, compare the variants
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Tag it, then teach from it
Visual design
The UI around the recording is dark and reduced, so the dance stays in focus. Lilac is the primary colour: it guides through the app and feels playful. The playhead is orange, so it stands out without reading as an error the way red would. Coloured tags work as visual anchors on the dark timeline.
We set everything in Inter with line icons, so it stays readable at a glance, even mid-lesson. The logo uses loose lettering that feels like flow.
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