Diet++
Helps to keep you healthy and fit
Michal Friedman, Yoav Mizrachi, Zorik Gekhman
ABSTRACT
USERS AND TASKS ANALYSIS
• App that helps you to keep healthy diet.
• Addresses people who wants to loose or balance weight or just having difficulties
in keeping healthy diet.
• Helps to construct your menu according to your goals and your health and
schedule limitation.
• 4 apps were tested (Eat Fit, Diet, Diet Recipes, 90 Days Diet).
• 2 articles were inspected:
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Effect of Balance and color on attractiveness of, willingness to try and liking for food (2010)
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Dietary Assessment and Self-monitoring: With Nutrition Applications for Mobile Devices (2012)
• Assist you in buying necessary ingredients and to cook your meals.
• Observations and interviews were made with 3 participants.
• Allows tracking and calculating data about your diet (calories sum etc..)
Main Conclusions:
• Helps in connecting people to diet groups.
• Ease of use is critical.
• Makes the diet process easy and enjoyable.
• The recipes must be very clear and readable.
• Pictures based design without long texts leads to good user experience.
• Different user interested in different levels of diets.
USERS SURVEY
• Apps that offer menus need to offer shopping list service.
• Diet apps need to offer diverse menu to address all kinds of tasters.
Main Conclusions:
• People prefer weekly shopping
• People Prefer to report in the
end of the day
• Users want the apps to be able to adapt, for example to take into account sports
training.
• Experienced user demands possibilities to inspect data and statistics about his diet.
• Most of the people on diet
don`t choose to use apps
• Females are more tend to use
apps for diets
• People are very interested in
statistics about their diet
• Social involvement (groups or
friends) helps to most of the
people
• People interested in cooking
instructions
PAPER SKETCH
• People want flexible apps
(consider sports training for
example)
Paper Sketch User Testing Conclusions Summary:
• User wants to set goal weight and get help from the app to accomplish it, not to
deal with how much calories or weight a day.
• Users wants their diet to be gradual.
• Missing option to set menu for the whole week so the shopping would be able to
generate weekly shopping list.
• Users are looking for different kinds of diets according to their needs(vegetarian
diet, gluten free diet, etc. )
VISUAL DESIGN AND WORK FLOW