The classic dashboard is a category error in professional football medicine. Borrowed from industrial operations, it packs the screen with gauges, radar charts and filters. Yet a club medical department operates on a weekly rhythm with two or three clinicians who already know every player in the building.
When we audited our own usage patterns in late 2024, we found that staff opened Omen four times a day but spent less than ninety seconds on the main dashboard before jumping to a player profile. The dashboard was a lobby, not a workspace.
Rebuilding the home screen as a calm, prioritised morning brief
We replaced the widget wall with a structured daily brief: who needs clinical or load attention today, why they are flagged, active rehabilitation protocols, and margin observations written by physiotherapists after yesterday’s session.
Daily active usage on the home screen more than doubled, and unsolicited clinical observations rose steadily across the spring because the interface invited clinical notes instead of competing for visual attention.
The 30-second rule between two treatment tables
We now apply one design test to every screen in Omen Performance: can the club doctor, head physiotherapist or fitness coach extract the required action in under thirty seconds? If not, we simplify the view.