Project Overview

Developing a wellness and exercise app that focuses on fitness activities and exercises, food, and suggested brands; this app will dive deep into the different phases of the women's cycle from each stage of the menstruation cycle, pregnancy, and pre and post-menopausal phases. For each phase of the cycle exercises suggestions and food will adapt. Exercises can also be adjusted on difficulty levels and lifestyle.

Timeline

Week 1
Discover

Week 2
Research

Week 3
Design

Week 4
Prototype

Week 5
Prototyping and Interface Designing

Week 6
Presentation of Findings and Design Recommendations

Week 7
Iteration, Final Reports, Case Study, Presentation Review

Week 8
Final Presentation

User Scenarios

Aubrey | Menstruating

Aubrey’s body is going through a change. She needs to learn more about it, so she can modify her lifestyle to be most effective based on her body condition. She browses our app to find nutrition and exercise information to find lifestyle choices that meet her needs. She selects some resources and tracks her progress as she goes.

Jessica | Pregnant

Jessica just found out she is pregnant. She wants to learn more about how her pregnancy is going to require lifestyle changes. She browses our app to look for exercises and resources specific for each trimester and what to expect. She finds plenty of resources and sets new goals to maintain a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy.

Sue | Menopausal

Sue is going through menopause and knows her body will start producing hormones more slowly. She browses our app for exercises she can do that are focused on lower energy levels, so she can maintain healthy living even through her changes.

Key Features

Onboarding

Onboarding is critical to any new app because it shows the users what they are getting into when they sign up. It needs to do a good job of showcasing our features up front so the user knows where to start.

Learning

This app hosts a collection of expert verifies articles, videos recipes, workouts, and plenty of alternative examples where you can filter through various options depending on your current phase, condition, limitation, or energy level.

Personalization

Personalization is important because we want everyone of any lifestyle to be able to find resources helpful to them. We want you to be able to choose what information is most important to you for viewing and tracking your progress and your own unique needs.

Tracking

Tracking your progress, classes, workouts, nutrition, exercises, and cycle is essential when speaking to physicians, personal trainers, and other experts. Providing them with this valuable information allows you to achieve optimum success.

Wireframes

Together, wireframes and micro-interactions help to create a seamless and intuitive user journey. By using wireframes to lay out the structure and micro-interactions to provide feedback and delight, we can create a user-friendly interface that's both functional and enjoyable to use.

Brand

For our wellness app, we chose the colors orange and purple to represent energy, vitality, and balance. These colors are also associated with warmth, creativity, and calmness, which aligns perfectly with our app's purpose. We paired these colors with Poppins, a clean and modern font that exudes a sense of trustworthiness and professionalism. By crafting a thoughtful brand, we're able to create a consistent and memorable experience for our users.

Summary Research

During this usability test, we want to understand what features the users find most important, along with finding any way finding issues. We are testing users looking for both qualitative and quantitative feedback.

From Our Experts, We Learned

  • Tracking nutrition and exercise is pertinent to the user understanding and achieving their goals It is essential
  • when you are communicating to a professional- It gives them insight to your progress.
  • As a person ages, the bone density and muscle mass decreases, so strength training and stretching is vital to reducing injury
  • ‍Less intense workouts during certain phases of the cycle


From Our Participants, We Learned

  • They really want balance between eastern and western medicine. They don’t trust doctors
  • Nutrition was more important to users than the exercise‍
  • Older participants are interested in being active
  • Working out helps when experiencing pain In pregnant participants, experiencing pain is more common
  • Motivation comes from those closest to the participant- usually a partner


Takeaways/Key Insights (Experts)

  • Many people don’t know their bodies as well as they think they do
  • Experts spend their lives learning the ins and outs of exercise and nutrition, but people need to self-educate themselves as well because there just isn’t a way to learn it all from an expert in a 30 min. appointment.


Takeaways/Key Insights (Participants)

  • Learning resources are limited
  • Most people want to exercise more but don’t know the best ways to do so effectively.
  • Most apps only touch on specific resources

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