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Initial user study
Initial user study
To get more feedback on our UI we conducted some initail user studies. We had approximately 12 participants who we invited to use the app. After they spent some time exploring the app, we gave them a simple questionaire to fill out. On this we asked the following questions:
- What was your first impesrsion of the app?
- Any comments about the User Interface?
- Any features you wish the app included?
- How easy was it to naviagte the app?
- Would you use this app in the future if avaialble?
- How would you rate the user interface?
- Anything else you'd like to share with us?
Here are some things people had to say
Here are some things people had to say
What was your first impression of the app?
What was your first impression of the app?
Any features you wish the app included?
Any features you wish the app included?
IMPLICATIONS
IMPLICATIONS
- We found that many students didn't like the color of the app saying that it didn't make them feel like they were using a food related app. So the question was - what colors do make you feel like it? To answer this we checked out some common fitness tracking apps and found that blue seems to be a popular choice. Had we more time, it would have been nice to survey more users with alternate color versions of the UI and have them vote on which they liked best.
- We also found that a 100% of those surveyed reported that they would use this app in the future if made available. We recognise that this result may have been due to the hawthorne effect. To the effect that we were given a more positive response because we were around when the participants took the survey. Despite that the survey was made annonymous to offset this - atleast to a small degree.
- We found that while users liked that our app had a minimalistic deisgn and didn't have too many features, others felt that they didn't think it had enough content for it to be a stand alone app. To solve this problem it seems that we need to make the app more personal. We sought to do this by adding some analytics. Two ways in which we could do this was to have 1) a personalised macros calculation based on the user's goals and 2) a "food diary" that tracked the users to food to remind them if they weren't eating a balanced diet.
final user study
final user study
After making some of the changes discussed earlier we decided to have one last round of user tests with our final working prototype. For this round of tests we had 10 participants some of whom had seen the version 1 prototype as well. After using the app for a bit we asked them to fill the same survey that we had created for the initial study.
first Impressions
first Impressions
Reported the app was easy to navigate!
The app was...
The app was...
"practical and simple to use."
"Well organized, pleasant to look at"
"very clean and simple"
"Smooth, Clean UI"
Felt they might possibly use the app in the future!
"The best thing about the app was that everything was integrated so that students with meal plans can see how much money they are spending each day and get nutritional information at the same place."
"The best thing about the app was that everything was integrated so that students with meal plans can see how much money they are spending each day and get nutritional information at the same place."
it would be nice to have...
it would be nice to have...
"a record of everything you've eaten (in the last day, week, month"
"a record of everything you've eaten (in the last day, week, month"
"a filter to search based on dietary restrictions like vegan or vegetarian..."
"a filter to search based on dietary restrictions like vegan or vegetarian..."
"Have the nutrition count be a header or footer which is always present on screen and displays the macro's.
"Have the nutrition count be a header or footer which is always present on screen and displays the macro's.
IMPLICATIONS
IMPLICATIONS
We were glad to see that the reviews were mostly positive and that the color scheme was more appreciated this around!
Most people felt that the app was truly needed on campus and liked that they could find all their health and food related information in one place.
Intrestingly, almost all of the "extra" features that people thought we should add were initially conceptualized in our balsamiq prototype or in the form prototype- including a record of what was eaten every day/week/month, a progress bar that showed the macros count for the day, filters for dietary restrictions and allergens and the ability to keep a food diary!
Additionally, we did have some foundation for all of these features in the backend. We just hadn't implemented them fully yet. This made us realise a fundamental flaw we had made ealier in the development of the app.
We should have asked users to rank the features they prioritize the most and then developed the highest ranked features first
We should have asked users to rank the features they prioritize the most and then developed the highest ranked features first
instead we did our first user study after we had already developed parts of the app.
Some ways in which we could improve our final survey to get more detailed feedback would have been to:
- ask users an open ended question of whether they think the app was successful in helping them 1) track their budget 2) track their macros and 3) meal plan.
- be able to import this app onto a real mobile device (even with seeded data) and have users use it for a couple days and give us feedback
Nevertheless, we are grateful to have got this feedback and will try to incorportate it all in future iterations of the app! We believe that UR Eats has the potential to help students with their nutritional intake and budgetting. Despite missing some features, our app was well received by participants in the user studies and was able to fullfil the basic requirement of allowing them to tracktheir budget and macros and plan their meals better by having the menus and locations readily avaiable.
Now, we admit that the current version of the app may not be the best for you. But it is a step forward and we beleive it is a step forward in the right direction!
Now, we admit that the current version of the app may not be the best for you. But it is a step forward and we beleive it is a step forward in the right direction!
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