Better Balance

Health and Wellness App
Better Balance is designed to combat the plague of inactive lifestyles by providing proper education through tips and tutorials. Our design solution caters each user experince to their specific lifestyle and pain points.
Application Prototype Smart Watch Prototype
Better Balance

THE CHALLENGE

Sedentary lifestyles lead the average person to develop a variety of pain points. Developing an app that can provide users with proper education to preventative and corrective measures to help them find a Better Balance for their health and wellness. We will ensure that the modern day office worker is alleviated of pain and more health conscious.

THE PROCESS

My Role
UX/UI Designer
Tools
Sketch, inVision, Adobe: Xd, Ps, Ai
Better Balance - Survey Results
Interview & Online Survey Results
  • Over 80% of our participants have sedentary jobs - which means there is a lot of prolonged seating and screen time.
  • 99% of those participants have expressed that they have developed multiple muscular pain points and/or suffer from eye strain and headaches.
  • Over 45% of our participants are aware the deleterious effects of having an inactive lifestyle while 41% are unsure due to lack of education on these issues
  • Over 65% of our participants also express time is a big constraint as to why they are not improving their wellness
    • Better Balance - Empathy Map
    Better Balance - User Persona
    Empathy Map & User Persona
    Barry Peterson is our User Persona that is derived from our research. We will be using Barry as the standard for all our design decisions moving forward. From here we were able to create a UX Scenario and User Journey Map based on Barry and Better Balance.
    Better Balance - Journey Map


    THE PROBLEM

    We believe that people with sedentary jobs experience deleterious effects to their health from prolonged sitting and bad posture. This leads to chronic pain that interferes with daily work, which could have been avoided with preventative measures.


    We may solve this problem by customizing and gammifying users’ experiences based on the data collected from a strong onboarding and activity feedback, providing targeted plans/routines, and customizable notifications and alarms.

    We will know we have succeeded when we see an increase in new users and user retention, and when the application will receive positive reviews.

    THE SOLUTION

    Keep it simple
  • A wellness app that is easily customizable to fit your personal needs and goals
  • User Experience that is easy to navigate and gets you going with very little (additional) effort.
  • User Interface that is easy on the eyes with no distractions and keeps you on the right track, daily.
    • Better Balance - Style Guide
    To be consistent with our design decision to be simple: we wanted to gamify the experience while keeping it simple we kept our user interface bright and minimalistic. Our display font "ASAP" has rounded edges which give a friendly and welcoming vibe. For body, we used "Open Sans" due to its readability.
    Smart Watch Compatibility
  • Helping our users stay on track, in the most convenient way.
  • Notifcations and reminders that are completely customizable; reflective of the user's routine.
  • User Experience that is easy to navigate and gets you going with very little (additional) effort.
  • User Interface that is easy on the eyes with minimal distractions.
    • Better Balance - Smart Watch Compatibility

    Smart Watch Prototype
    Forseeable challenges
  • Users with pain points have to understand the need to be consistent in their routine to achieve the results they are looking for.
  • Users without pain points have to commit to preventive maintenance before they develop issues.
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    Future developments
  • Opportunity to consult with an expert via chat
  • Rewards systems with massage and wellness businesses
  • Make an appointment to see a professional
  • Further improvements to smart-watch compatibility
  • Partner with Businesses: Offer bulk account subscriptions
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