“Fit Me” was a health management app created during Data Bang creation contest. As the team leader, I cooperated with Boyang, Difu, Jinhong and Xiangdong to go through a typical user centered design process in 2 days. And we won the first prize! We conducted research and ideated together, then Boyang, Difu and me prototyped the demo. After that, I did user test for the app and made some modification.
2015. 12.11 - 2015. 12. 12 (48 hours) @ Data Bang Creation Contest
Questionnaire, Interviews, Persona, Information Architecture, Prototype, User testing
Sketch, Xmind, JustinMind
As a univeristy student, I have to admit that my lifestyle is not very healthy. I eat a lot of fast food because it is convenient and tastes good. I often stay up late due to the heavy academic burden. Everytime I told myself that I need to do some physical exercises to keep fit, I could only keep going to the gym for the first three days, and then, I gave up...
I noticed that I am not the only one who has these problems. My friend, my classmates and many more university students like me lead a similar lifestyle. So I keep wondering: how do these bad habit influence my health status? Is there anyway that can help students like me to lead a healthier life?
In this contest, we got the opportunity to dive into this problem and tried to find out a solution. For me, it was a really precious experience that I went through a mini but complete design process and learned how design could change people's lives
In order to know some basic information about student’s health condition, we randomly interviewed the students by the roadside on campus. We interviewed 18 people and asked them questions in one minute for each person.
To know more about students’ daily routine and life style, we made questionnaire online and sent the link to current students in SJTU. We believed researching in larger scale could make the result more convincing. At last we collected 187 samples.
Based on the research, I made a persona who was representative in life style of most of students in SJTU.
More than half of students are caught in unhealthy lifestyle
LACK GUIDANCE
Many students chose food randomly, not considering the balanced diet and nutrition.
LACK MOTIVATIONS
Most students cannot keep up a healthy life style although they have willings to do so.
CONFUSED
students don’t know clearly about their health condition or how their current lifestyle can influence their health.More than half of students are caught in unhealthy lifestyle
Since we knew university students use mobile phone so frequently and bring it wherever they are, we thought designing a mobile app for health management was a good idea. Based on the previous research and insight, we realized that our key points were to show users’ health status intuitively and to make them feel joy when they use our product. Through brainstorm, an idea came out:
After the competition, I wanted to improve our app, so I made a user test. I set a list of tasks and invited three students who also did questionnaire in the user research to do these tasks, and then I asked them how they felt about the appearance, features, and usability of the app.
what they like
-They like the idea of setting a role in the application
-They think the forecast of your body shape can stimulate you to keep a healthy lifestyle, especially when they see how fat they would become if they lead a unhealthy lifestyle.
what they dislike
-Buttons of recording your daily life are confusing
-The tabs are a little bit disorganized
-Too much inputting is troublesome
1.reorganize the tabs, put them all at the bottom of the page.
2.redesign the flow of inputting and choosing, so the users can focus on one task of inputting when the task area is enlarged.
3.record the data about sleep and exercise by smart bracelet so users don’t need to input the record by themselves.
