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USABILITY AND VISUAL PROGRAMMING 1
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Phase 1
My choice for this brief assignment is to change.
A healthy eating/lifestyle app is an international design app that embraces or accelerates
dissimilar aspects that characterize your lifestyle. This is what I mean by these types of mobile
applications linked to food, man, dating, wellness. I plan on creating a personalized, dashboard-
based interface for our regular users (Vu et al.,2017, p 4). This app will be able to talk to the
users because it will be wearable like a watch. The main objective of healthy eating and lifestyle
app is to improve the health and nutrition outcomes of disadvantaged segments of the population
on condition that will increase vegetables and fruit intake, reduce intake of calories and increase
micronutrient intake. Besides, this app also educates people on the amount of food portion that
one is required to consume where it warns the danger of exceeding the daily required portion to
the users. It informs the user of the nutrients that are consumed in every food intake i.e. vitamins,
carbohydrates, calories, protein sugar, salt, water, fiber, etc. It also alerts the users in any
excesses or shortfall nutrients intake in percentage in the required daily intake. In short, this app
will educate our users on the importance of a balanced food diet, food portion that one is
supposed to consume and be able to measure daily food intake to avoid food wastage
(Abulmeaty, 2017 p 117).
Because such dashboards do not currently exist, for the development of a list of important
requirements, I interviewed three users searching for healthy eating/lifestyle app on the existing
websites. During these three hours session of interview by using general observation, I made
notes regarding the breakdowns and behaviors and giving significant awareness into the goals of
my target users.
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Ideation
I wanted to design an app that focuses on the user's desired product and context of use. I
started the ideation process by developing a persona and supplemented it with a job story.
Meet Jo
Jo is 30 years old, working as a writer in Kenya. He works from 8 am to 4 pm daily
during the week and goes out with his friends and family over the weekends. He enjoys life and
wants to have better eating habits to be healthier (Alloghani et al., 2016).
"When I go hang out with my friend or my family members, I want to stick to my diet but
I don't want to worry too much about where and what to eat. So I can keep healthy and enjoy my
holiday with the use of the application."
Addressing Frustrations with Functions
Back in my interviews, I looked at those common pain points. After reducing it down to
three, I pointed out potential solutions for each. From this list, I shortlisted three crucial ones that
can be turned into an app function which would help the user achieve their goals:
Search/find places to eat or food options: The software should be able to search for
nearby places to eat.
Suggest alternatives if there are no other choices nearby: The app should contain a
database with suggestions on how to customize the food available on the menu to fit a specific
diet.
Communicate dietary restrictions: The app should have a translator to help users
converse with their preferences (Avedzi et al.,2019 p 11707).
Prototyping and User Testing
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I designed storyboards to plot the idea of the fundamentals of user flow and how the app
will operate.
After developing this user flow and wireframes, the next step to follow is to build a lo-fi
prototype and start user testing and I have to realize that this is a very useful and insightful
exercise. Watching people interact with the model helps me address some gaps in my initial
design and information hierarchy.
Mark Muller
Mark Muller is a 37-year-old Accountant. He is a vegetarian and prefers to use a
Healthy/lifestyle app to improve on a balanced diet.
Mark started by clicking the start page where it brought three lists of destinations namely:
lose weight, maintain weight and gain weight. He clicked the loose weight section where it
required him to enter the height and weight figures manually. He did not like it because he was
not sure of his weight.
Breakdown: Next page failure
After entering the weight figures manually, it doesn't direct you to the next page to
progress to the menu of a balanced diet needed for intake and the required lifestyle to lose
weight.
Opportunity: Present direct scanning.
Extra services could help to encourage users to opt for it, rather than to ask for the
measurements of calories, weight and other measurements required.
Evelyn spire
Evelyn is a 29 years secretary. She primarily likes to observe her diet with the use of a
healthy eating/lifestyle app.
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Evelyn took an approach that was a bit different to Mark and clicked maintain weight
button but the application took longer to go to the next page meaning the page hanged. She was
not happy with the finding (Azar et al., 2019 p 694).
Breakdown: Page hanging
After clicking the maintain button to proceed to the next page, the application hanged.
Opportunity: Design a fast app
High technology usage maintains the speed to encourage users to opt for it to improve
people on a nutritious diet in a fast way.
My findings and research indicate the following needs/goals for users of my dashboard:
Comprehensive practicability
To sign in to the dashboard swiftly/endure logged into the application/software.
Offer things that I can configure so that I can view the deals that I want and also be able
to delete the ones that I am not interested in (Blanchard et al., 2020 p 456).
It enables me to share information with friends through mainly through social media.
Save all the details required so as not to enter it every single time I use the dashboard.
Searching for an option
To allow one in result filtering and select an option that quickly meets one's
requirements.
In a case where there is a need for change in diet, I need to be directed to the important
page that advises what to take and what not to take.
To view a variety of balanced diet that is important for intake.
Allow me to see key areas that influence a good lifestyle (Grosso, 2018).
Variety of strategies inclusion
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To promote fitness and health habits including monitoring of performance, social
networking, goal setting, and remote coaching.
To encourage engaging in physical activities and to increase knowledge of owns health
behavior.
Employ behavior shift trends
To help in encouraging people/users in developing and establishing a new healthy
behavior.
Self-tracking
To help in analyzing and recording healthy information about oneself regularly in
monitoring behavior.
To help close the gap of lack of research on people's experiences with healthy eating and
lifestyle.
To help in encouraging the development of technologies that are sensitive to socio-
cultural pressures that surround exercise and diet that people are already contending with
(ISLAM, 2018)
Chronic diseases risk reduction
To help in the reduction of chronic disease risks like diabetes by educating people on the
importance of taking a balanced/healthy diet.
Healthy weight management
Help to educate people on the primary importance of healthy weight by educating the
people on the importance of eating a nutritious diet (Leyva et al., 2018 p 1).
Immune system maintenance
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To help in informing people about the importance of maintaining the immune system by
consuming a balanced diet.
Design Methods
Diet suck app
This application promotes quick, tiny conversion to one's diet by offering prompt to assist you to
shape up healthy behaviors such as taking a glass of water during lunch hour or taking an apple every
day.
Nutrifix app
This application is designed in making a finding of free and healthy food easily. This is where one
application is built for your nutritional needs and then you find food stores in your area that fit your bill.
And in the case where you are not in a position of moving outside, you might order and be distributed
with the food via Nutrifix (Machorro-Cano et al., 2017 p 133).
My fitness pal app
This helps in tracking what someone is consuming and the calorie amount that one is burning. It
also creates a plan that is customized with a calorie allowance daily. A massive database offers
information about nutrition for foods and a barcode scanner makes it easier in utilizing and sharing
success with others (Shaw, Sharma and Ramakrishnan, 2019).
Aqualert app
This app checks the barcode of a company and educates you if there is an alternative healthier
food. It does this by showing signals of traffic lights and allowing you to make a rapid choice. It also
provides a salt switch feature by illustrating low salt alternatives that are important to those with high
blood pressure (Siregar, 2017).
Change for life sugar smart app
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This app helps in visualizing sugar in users' daily drinks and food by educating them in sticking to
the recommended sugar limit of about 30g in a day.
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References
Vu, T., Lin, F., Alshurafa, N. and Xu, W., 2017. Wearable food intake monitoring technologies:
A comprehensive review. Computers, 6(1), p.4.
Abulmeaty, M.M., 2017. Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention: Outlines and Outcomes. Adiposity:
Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities, p.117.
Alleghany, M.A.M.A., Hussain, A., Al-Jumeily, D., Fergus, P., Abuelma'atti, O. and Hamdan,
H., 2016. A Mobile Health Monitoring Application for Obesity Management and Control
Using the Internet-of-Things 1Mohamed. Digital Information Processing and
Communications (ICDIPC),.
Avedzi, H.M., Storey, K., Johnson, J.A. and Johnson, S.T., 2019. Healthy Eating and Active
Living for Diabetes-Glycemic Index (HEALD-GI): Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized
Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols, 8(3), p.e11707.
Azar, K.M., Nasrallah, C., Szwerinski, N.K., Petersen, J.J., Halley, M.C., Greenwood, D. and
Romanelli, R.J., 2019. Implementation of a group-based diabetes prevention program
within a healthcare delivery system. BMC health services research, 19(1), p.694.
Blanchard, T.C., Usvyat, L., Willetts, J.L., Herman, M.C., Ellison, B.C., Moran, J.E. and
Chatoth, D.K., Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc, 2020. Systems and methods for
identifying the risk of infection in dialysis patients. U.S. Patent Application 16/456,510.
Grosso, G., 2018. Dietary Antioxidants and Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases.
ISLAM, M.J., 2018. INTENTION TOWARDS VEGETARIAN DIET IN MALAYSIA AS A
CONCERN OF HEALTHY EATING LIFESTYLE.
Leyva, T.F., Mendoza, Y.R.M., Alcivar, B.M.P. and Caballero, A.M.A., 2018. Obesity: problem
to consider in public health. International journal of health sciences, 2(3), pp.1-10.
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Machorro-Cano, I., Ramos-Donati, U., Alor-Hernández, G., Sánchez-Cervantes, J.L., Sánchez-
Ramírez, C., Rodríguez-Mazahua, L. and Segura-Ozuna, M.G., 2017, October. An IoT-
based architecture to develop a healthcare smart platform. In International Conference on
Technologies and Innovation (pp. 133-145). Springer, Cham.
Shaw Jr, G., Sharma, T., and Ramakrishnan, S., 2019. Exploring Diabetes and Users' Lifestyle
Choices in Digital Spaces to Improve Health Outcomes.
Siregar, E., 2017. Assessing plant-based food lifestyle to reduce obesity risk.
Smriti, D., 2019. Designing Technology to Increase Adoption of Healthy Behaviors in Men in the
Context of Light Food Consumption (Doctoral dissertation).
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