@Philippe Côté Neat approach to the problem from a visual paradigm perspective. Another idea could be showing a regular scrollbar and gradually expanding the scrollbar handle until it fills the entire track.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that major platforms would adopt something like this. It...
A: AI-first. No tabs, no dashboards. The app is one conversation with a coach that already knows you slept six hours and squatted heavy on Tuesday. You log sets by talking. The plan rewrites itself mid-workout.
B: The modern standard. Home, today's workout, set-by-set logging, class booking, progress. Everything a member expects, done properly.
Same brand, same components, same build quality. The only real difference is how much you're asking the user to unlearn.
Going with A here, the idea of the plan rewriting itself mid-workout instead of you scrolling a dashboard feels like where fitness apps eventually land. Would you actually ship the AI-first version to real users right now, or is it more of a thought experiment at this stage?
When we work with founders, companies who sell to bigger companies, the same thing comes up.
The product or service is good. But the deck looks like one company, the site looks like another, and the copy says the same sentence every AI company says.
With a startup client that doesn't cost you much. One founder tries it and decides.
Inside a bigger company it's five people, and most of them never speak to you. Someone in procurement, someone in security, a VP who hasn't heard your name. They pass your deck and your site around and decide without you in the room.
So we start with the brand and build the site on top of it, so both say the same thing.