Product Demonstration
Video made by team member. Thank you Eleni!
This is a group project that focused on completing the entire product development cycle from ideation, user research to prototyping and presentation. I am deeply involved in every step of the process.
Problem Space
Many students take on extremely busy lifestyles. Given their packed schedules, it can be difficult to find time to prioritize their health in both nutritional and physical aspects. In addition, students who are just starting their fitness journeys can feel intimidated by exercising, lost in the world of nutrition, and even discouraged by their surroundings/environment. Exercises or tasks that seem too daunting or challenging may cause them to stray from tackling them, not hold themselves accountable, or even quit before starting.
Not having a plan, partner, knowledge, or time management has hindered countless students from reaching their fitness and health goals–those of which are essential to living a happy, healthy, and well-rounded college experience. Through discussion, we agree that this problem space is significant and feasible.
Based on above observations, we continue to develop a research plan to understand our user.
User Research
After developing an interview protocol, we conducted voice-recorded interviews on recruited participants. The session summary are shared in the team and an affinity diagram is drawn.
User Research Insights
1. User group is divided in whether social-interactions should happen while working-out
2. User group wish to reduce travel-time with convenient locations
3. User group has difficulties in maintaining workout schedules
4. User group prioritize personal health over other benefits of workouts.
Design Requirements
The product should:
1. Provide a comfortable and supportive environment
2. Prioritize convenience/efficiency for workout
3. Allow Personalized users’ goals + progress tracking
4. Promote consistency
5. Be enjoyable
6. Provide workout instructions
7. Not impede the success of students at school
8. Provide indoor/outdoor workout options
Solution Space Research
The solution space is subsequently looked into. We looked at existing products from wearables, workout equipment, to applications. According to my research, wearables (such as smart watches) and equipment (such as Peloton) are expensive for students, while most applicatoins aren't design for students who need to find time to workout in a busy schedule.
After deciding that this vacuum could be an opportunity, we created story boards (below) and sketched the mobile application (right).
We developed the following tasks that could cover the needs of most of the user group.
Task 1: Look at workout activity records of themselves
Task 2: Complete a mission and redeem a reward
Task 3: Schedule work-out time for today
Task 4: The task at hand is to find someone to go out on a run with and check the leaderboard after exercising.
Prototyping
A low-fidelity paper prototype is created to conduct early usability test. A higher-fidelity Figma prototype is created to collect more in-depth user feedback.
During the Figma prototype usability test, I developed the following metrics to monitor and help evaluate, data is collected during user testing and interviews:
1. Learnability: Measured by time to complete each task
2. Engagement: Measured by emotions observed during user testing
3. Efficiency: Measured by the number of clicks when the user is completing each task.
Based on usability test insights, feedback, and metrics, we created a sheet to help us determine the seriousness and cost of imporvement. Based on the table, I made several design improvements.
1. I moved the location of the "ranks" page to a more accessibile and intuitive location.
2. I changed the graph view of rankings to a list view, a more straightforward way of displaying ranking.
3. I changed non-clickable rectangles to clickable rectangles in “week” tab to show what workout took place on that day
4. A total of 9 issues are evaluated and fixed by me, after communicating my fixes with the group.
Project Poster
Poster made by me
The Group
