What is strong
The use case is concrete: players need a fast, glanceable way to track scoring while attention stays on the court.
Product Concept
CourtTap
Overview
A tennis and padel scoring concept for smartwatches, focused on recording points quickly during a match without pulling out a phone.
My role
Status
Concept exploration
Project Takeaways
What to keep small
The MVP should avoid social features, ranking, and heavy stats until the scoring interaction is proven reliable.
What to test first
Can players add points, undo mistakes, and understand match state while moving, sweating, and only glancing at the watch?
Problem framing
Casual tennis and padel matches often rely on memory, shouting the score, or checking a phone between points. That works until the match gets close, players switch sides, or someone forgets the score.
A smartwatch is a good fit only if the interaction is faster than the problem. If scoring requires menus, typing, or careful reading, the product fails in the real context.
MVP scope
The first version should support tennis and padel scoring, one-tap point entry for each side, undo, current server, set progress, tie-break handling, and a clear match finished state.
Post-match history and simple stats can exist later, but they should not shape the first interface. The core job is live scoring.
Interaction rules
Buttons need to be large, labels short, and mistakes reversible. The watch should show only the current match state and the next available action, because the user is not studying the screen.
The design should also handle edge cases without drama: accidental taps, changing server, tie-breaks, and correcting the previous point.
Next step
I would build a clickable watch prototype and test it during an actual rally session, not at a desk. The key metric is not whether the UI looks understandable in a screenshot, but whether it can be used between points without interrupting the match.