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Ademar Rodrigues, OURA
Allan Salcedo-Orozco, OURA
Alexandra Westerback, OURA
Anna Grajek, OURA
Brooke Docherty, OURA
Brynn Harrington, OURA
Colleen Simms, OURA
Damian Winiarczuk, OURA
Erika Sankari, OURA
Geoff Koops, OURA
James Breaux, OURA
Janne Kaki, OURA
Josip Parac, OURA
Josue Espinosa, OURA
Jussi Aitjarvi, OURA
Julie Russo-Ryan, OURA
Kara Caven, OURA
Kriti Pachhandara, OURA
Laura Furman, OURA
Maitri Shah, OURA
Marcin Banaszynski, OURA
Minh Kiet Vuong, OURA
Nichole Treadway, OURA
Rebecca Plotnick, OURA
Teemu Rossi, OURA
Tyten Teegarden, OURA
Jack Maize, OURA
Veera Lindholm, OURA
Remi Boille, Sr. Executive Producer at Instrument
Chris Fairchild, Creative Director at Instrument
Anna Harkness, Design Director at Instrument
Kyle Roberts, Design Director at Instrument
Varna Vasudevan, Strategy Lead at Instrument
Lizelle Galaz Estrella, Strategy Director at Instrument
Angela Liu, Senior Designer at Instrument
Heather Weyda, Sr. Motion Designer at Instrument
Loretta Rae, Senior Producer at Instrument

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Instrument collaborated with Oura to create a more intuitive app that helps millions of members make sense of daily signals and long-term health trends.

The Challenge

As Oura expanded beyond sleep into a holistic health platform, the app began to outgrow its own success.

Members were generating more meaningful data than ever—daily signals, long-term trends, personalized guidance—but the experience struggled to clearly surface what mattered now versus what mattered over time. Valuable insights were buried beneath growing complexity, making it harder for members to interpret their health, build habits, and stay engaged.

How might the Oura app evolve to clarify complexity without oversimplifying the science behind it?

Clarity through progressive meaning

We reimagined the Oura app around a single principle: progressive disclosure of meaning, revealing the right level of insight at the right moment, while preserving depth for those who want to go further.

By pairing a scalable visualization framework with a unified semantic color language, we transformed dense health data into an experience that feels intuitive, emotionally resonant, and actionable, helping members understand today’s signals while connecting them to long-term health outcomes.

Designing for moments, not metrics

We balanced utility and expression to strengthen comprehension while elevating Oura's emotional connection with its members. The redesign introduces a clear hierarchy that prioritizes daily relevance, supports pattern recognition, and encourages exploration without overwhelming the user.

The result is an app that feels lighter, faster, and more human, even as its underlying intelligence grows more sophisticated.

Evolved Visual Identity

Building on Oura's existing brand, we created a refined visual language that brings greater clarity, warmth, and cohesion across the product. Refined typography, grid systems, and simplified components improve scanability and reinforce trust—ensuring the interface feels calm, considered, and grounded in science.

A semantic color system for instant clarity

To help members quickly understand how their behaviors support or strain their health, we introduced a unified semantic color system across the app.

Color is no longer decorative; it’s instructional. Dynamic cues guide attention, support comparison, and make insights immediately legible across contexts. Members can now recognize patterns at a glance and confidently act on what they see.

A scalable data visualization framework

We rebuilt Oura's visualizations across three adaptable layers:

— At-a-glance signals: Abstract rings, bars, and color cues deliver fast daily insights.
— Focused metrics: Mid-level views add context for short-term patterns and key vitals without cognitive overload.
— Deep exploration: Detailed, often interactive views reveal long-term trends across weeks, months, or years.

This system allows members to move seamlessly between intuition and precision, supporting both quick check-ins and deeper understanding.

The Impact

The redesigned app makes Oura's health insights clearer, more actionable, and more engaging, helping members understand what’s happening today and how their habits shape their long-term health.

For Oura, the unified visual language and scalable architecture create a future-ready foundation that accelerates feature development, reduces complexity, and keeps the experience cohesive as the platform continues to evolve.

From Doug Sweeny, CMO of OURA: The clean new design keeps everything you love about Oura, but adds more clarity and simplified intuitive navigation. The My Health tab allows you to understand your specific health strengths and opportunities at a glance, while seeing how your habits tie into the bigger picture of your long-term health.

Gold Winner in UX, Interface & Navigation for Digital Design

Gold Winner in Interactive Design for Digital Design

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