Healthy Habit Builder
Helping young adults build the kind of habits needed to drive positive change in society.
Project Details
Responsibilities
Usability Studies,
Refining designs,
User flow , Story telling
low and high fidelity prototypes
Research, Sketching,
Paper wireframes,
Digital wireframes,
Mockups,
Accessibility
Role
UX/UI Designer
Duration
02/2022 - 07/2022
THE CHALLENGE
Those looking to tutor young adults in building healthy habits need help with tools to assist with work/life balance, organization, accountability, and personal development.
The Solution
A mobile and web application designed to be a tool to aid in the development of individuals building healthier habits.
Key Features
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Mental Health
The Emotion Tracker and Health journal are mental health widgets that are designed for users to record and track how users feel, think and act using both visual and written communication styles .
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Goal Tracker
The Goals widget is designed to help users with organization, work/life balance, personal development and to help users with accountability.
There are three physical health widgets designed to help reach and maintain your ideal physical state . The Coupon widget, workout resources widgets, and Meal Log widget.
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Physical Health
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Routine Tracker
The routines widget is designed to help user see their daily progress and record how often they complete their daily task.
Personal Badges
Keep track of your personal achievements with badges you recieve for meeting the milestones set. Being able to have a visual representation helps users with accountability. Being able to share your achievements help users with personal development!
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Design Process
Understanding the user
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USER RESEARCH
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PERSONAS
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SITEMAP
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COMPETITIVE AUDIT
Starting the design
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PAPER WIREFRAMES
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DIGITAL WIREFRAMES
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LOW-FIDELITY PROTOTYPE
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USABILITY STUDIES
Refining the design
MOCKUPS
HIGH-FIDELITY PROTOTYPES
ACCESSIBILITY
Understanding the user
User Research
Qualitative Research
Professional
Students
Parents
Young Adults
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Primary Research
We interviewed people between the age of 18-54 years old, with backgrounds ranging from Coaches, young adults, students, and parents to understand how we could meet their expectations of providing tools that help them consistently build healthy habits
Users want help with an approach to building healthy habits
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Users want a way to maintain work/life balance, their schedule and their habits
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Users want help with consistency and being intentional
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Insights
To understand how we could meet the expectations of a diverse group of Adults looking to tutor younger individuals in building healthy habits and to address any pain points they may experience
Persona Development #1
Age: 35
Education: Bachelors Degree
Hometown: Cleveland Ohio
Family: Has Son
Occupation: Registered Nurse
We designed a persona to serve as a cumulative representation of all the common user needs, goals, thoughts, feelings, pain points and actions into account, that we derived from our interviews and insights.
Jessica Mendez
Biography
Goals
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To be consistent and intentional
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Maintain a schedule, have a healthy Task completion rate
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Maintain healthy nutritional habits
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Have a healthy routine
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Maintain Work/life Balance
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Jessica is a full time parent. She believes being consistent and intentional will help her achieve her goals and maintain healthy habits. Jessica thinks she needs a better approach to developing healthy habits and balance
Problem Statement
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Frustrated with the lack of resources for food nutrition
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Frustrated with weather's effect on mood and habits
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Frustrated with bad habits
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Frustrated not having a approach to building healthy habits
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frustrated with how problems affect emotions and mental states
Frustrations
Jessica wants a way to be intentional and consitent in building and maintiaining healthy habits for herself and her child. In order to better reach her goals she would like tool to address her frustrations and that improve the journey
Summary
Persona Development #2
Age: 28
Education: Bachelors Degree
Hometown: Denver, CO
Family: Single
Occupation: Coach,, Youth Mentor
We designed a persona to serve as a cumulative representation of all the common user needs, goals, thoughts, feelings, pain points and actions into account, that we derived from our interviews and insights.
Mike Bryant
Biography
Summary
Goals
Mike wants a way to be intentional and consistent in building and maintaining healthy habits for himself and his athletes. In order to better reach his goals he would like tools that address his frustrations with building and maintaining healthy habits
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To be consistent and intentional
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Help athletes maintain a schedule and set/ accomplish goals
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Help athletes maintain healthy diet and to be able to afford food himself
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Be educated & disciplined so he can educate others
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Frustrated with the lack of resources for physical and mental Health
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Frustrated with the tools available for young adults
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Need help holding athletes accountable with building healthy habits
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Frustrated with his athletes not having an approach to building healthy habits
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Frustrated with how problems affect his athletes emotions and mental states
Frustrations
Mike is a full time coach. He believes being consistent and intentional will help him achieve his goals and maintain healthy habits. Mike wants a way to avoid frustration and accomplish his goals in a timely manner.
Problem Statement
SITE MAP
Primary Research
Qualitative Research
Competitive Audit
The goal of this audit was to understand the various products and features currently available in the marketplace and to see how some or all of these features can be used to build healthy habits in young adults.
COMPETITORS
COMPETITIVE AUDIT CHARTS
Starting the Design
Ideation
We conducted Ideation exercises to come up with ideas on how to address gaps identified in the competitive audit.
Paper Wireframes
Mobile Digital Wireframes
Mobile Low FIdelity Prototype
Moderated Usability Studies
Primary Research Conducted
Participants
5 diverse individuals
Location
Online Zoom Interviews, United States
Study type
Moderated Usability Study
Study Parameters
Length
20-30 minutes
Study Plan Introduction
Research Questions
Key Performance Indicators
Research Methodology
Research Script
Survey
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Users liked the simplicity of the sites language
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Users Felt like the responsive header made it easy to navigate longer pages
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Users liked having multiple ways to find a rental home profile from the search page
