This project seeks to create a tool to help its users track their daily food intake and add value to their conscious eating journey.
The Problem
It is well known that obesity and a sedentary lifestyle coexist. Not only does obesity impacts self-esteem but also it lowers overall productivity and increases the risk for cardiovascular disease.
Competitive Analysis Insights
To develop an understanding of what is already present in the market, I explored a few apps which are HealthifyMe, Evolut, Cultfit, and fat secret. These apps are very well crafted and it revolves around improving the living style of the user and helping them to achieve their desired goals.
Only HealthifyMe and Fat secret had a diet calory tracker. The way they help users flow to the completion is tasked is that first, they understand the user details. During onboarding, they will ask for the weight, height, age, lifestyle, etc details, and then they will ask for their goals as in if they want to lose weight or gain weight with data. After that, the user will be presented with a tool to calculate its details by putting the amount of food and getting it calculated to the daily food intake goal. Also, they suggest the water intake for the daily goals. Healthify me has an added feature to calculate burned calories through tracking exercises and sleep trackers.
User Persona
Gary
Age: 33
Location: Banglore
Profession: IT Engineer
Gary is a well-accomplished IT professional. Due to his sedentary lifestyle, he has developed obesity which made him lethargic. Through work sometimes he gets stressed and he eats during stress. His general physician has suggested controlling his overeating and making relevant lifestyle changes. Due to lockdown and pandemic, his sitting has increased and physical work is reduced as he won’t have to travel to the office. Gary is quite concerned as he understands obesity risks to developing cardiovascular diseases and he wants to be disease-free. But still, he is facing challenges to deal with stress as eating has become his coping mechanism.
MOTIVATIONS
- To be fit.
- Control his food intake.
NEEDS
- Find ways to regulate his food intake.
- Doing relevant activities to manage his calories
FRUSTRATIONS
- Long sitting job, lethargy.
- Increasing waist number.
Empathy
Pain Points
- Facing stress while working results in his overeating.
- Not being consistent while maintaining his food habits, due to stress sometimes breaks his discipline.
- Maintaining track of his calory discipline feels clumsy with present apps.
Product Features
Regular Mode
- Track daily food intake and notify regarding overeating.
- Track water intake, sleep, and exercise.
Pro Mode
- Extra tips to extra calories in case the user has been identified as overeating. This could be suggesting to him the amount of exercise be done or some remedies to make things even.
- Healthy recipes
- Counting macros
Pro+
- Dietician support
- Customized plan according to the user needs
Business Goals
Considering that the business goal is to make users transition into the pro version so that the business can get value out of its services.
Ideas
To make users move into pro features, we need to make them hooked to the app by giving them a gamified experience.
Duolingo’s approach to gamification is very interesting and could be applied to this product as well. Few ideas:
- Giving a sense of progress by giving a streak system to finish goals daily.
- Allowing the mistakes as it may be possible that the user might overeat someday and go on a guilt trip so they need to be cheered up to keep them motivated.
- Keeping them motivated with daily progress so that they could be excited to keep on hunting the goals.
- Leaderboards and Communities can be present to activate their competitive instinct. This may not work as this is competition with self. But this could add a lot of value as generally when we join gym we seek a partner to accompany us and friendly competitiveness. So, this feature intends to trigger that emotion.
- Also, there could be a surprise for them as during the finishing streak they could be given a discount over pro versions as a reward and this offer could be availed for a limited time. So, that they would face the fear of missing this out.
- Giving the taste of extra tips feature for a limited time so that they could experience its benefits. This will be unlocked as a reward for streaks.
Overeating due to stress lies in the domain of mental health. In the future features related to mental health, and regulation could be developed to expand the user base and generate more revenue.
This product is towards transformation and progress. To make the experience alive a mascot will add value. It will develop the product voice and help the users develop a connection with the app. This mascot could also be used to market the pro features and persuade to buy that out.
Link for Information Architecture, Flows & Screens
https://www.figma.com/file/5JWyYMHb4D8MKVoPD5emZN/SVEN-(Diet-Management-Dashboard)?node-id=0%3A1
