EatJoy is a mobile application to address the problem of emotional eating. The App is designed with theoretical support by Behavior Changing Techniques and health research findings. The final high-fidelity prototype is pixel-perfect in material design style.

Presentation

Process

Problem

Food fails to cheer people up...

User research includes survey, 6 interviews targeting university students which are population around us, and looked at demographics coming from psychology journal and papers, to see if the problem also apply to a larger group.

Persona

Build persona on research insights

How might we _______
help university students use food to defeat negative feeling in a healthy way?

Design Goals

1.Let people enjoy eating

2.Assist rational snack decision making

3.Raise conscious during eating

Design Constrains

1. Intervention needs to be personalized for different food preferences.

2. Physical availability of good food has to be considered.

3. Food craving is impulsive and urgent, allows a short period of time for intervention.

Candidate features

1. Gather food preference.

2. Recommend better food choice to deal with depression.

3. Reflect behavior history.

4. Calm down emotional eating.

5. Provide nutrition knowledge.

User Journey

Design a experience led by how the user feels

Iteration

How to incorporate individual’s diet goal?

Ask user to input their goal then recommend food based on the goal.
The input goals vary in scopes.
Hard to link to recommendations.

Users having a health goal know relevant nutrition.
Mascot is introduced to lead through on-boarding process.
The information on tags has no obvious structure, seems disordered.