Train Hard, Fight Easy

Thiago Nascimento
Gallerr Academy
Published in
3 min readMay 7, 2018

Every step taken by the Gallerr team is to become the best online environment to learn Jiu-Jitsu. It was one of the most crucial reasons to develop our platform in opposition to using available platforms. Thus, we have been able to expand our product according to what matters to the audience and frequently enhancing the user experience.

One great example to talk about in the benefits of building Renzo Gracie Online Academy was the user registration onboard that concludes on the checkout page. We have been using conversational design concept to turn a simple sign up more engaging. Every step, the user advances by answering a new question from Renzo Gracie, filling our required fields.

We are working on every sprint based on customer feedback, — which I’m responsible for replying most of the people who email us -, performing tests of features to adjust and make the platform more comprehensive for the user’s vision. During the last few weeks, we provided new features for small groups of users, and this week we deployed this new version for all.

We overhauled the product to a better organization with the available techniques, a brief example is the group of videos described as WEEK LESSONS, and now it is turned into PROGRAM. Evidently, we keep up our compromise of publishing new lessons every week, but now they will be distributed through this program, making it fast for audience and instructors to access.

Home Page

For more accurate information and quick access to the programs and lessons, we are executing continuous improvements in the navigation aspect. From now on, users can see the number of lessons they have to attend from the last watched lesson, noticing as the journey progress.

Users following and accessing the program integrally each week was the initial idea. However, after few months, the users were looking for better decision support on what they want to learn. Along with this, the content volume was increased with new updates every week, making it harder to dive deep into the available content and highlighting the necessity of a search engine.

Search Page

To solve this problem, we developed a bullet-proof search algorithm, using ElasticSearch as tech platform, and indexing the content and including structures inserted by our editors to return the best result possible amongst all available programs and lessons.

Besides that, we provided new pages for instructors and techniques for those who want to follow all lessons taught by any invited instructors, and to know more about a specific technique.

Instructor Page

But it will not stop here; we are preparing new updates of Renzo Gracie Online Academy for the next weeks, so stay tuned to our news ;)

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Thiago Nascimento
Gallerr Academy

CEO at SkillCore, serial entrepreneur, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt.