Your Sweet Life
Role
UX Research
UX/UI Design
Duration: 5 months
Tools: Figma, Miro, FigJam
At a Glance
Your Sweet Life is a mobile health app revolutionizing personal health management. As individuals age, the desire to proactively address health issues grows. Our app offers personalized tools for holistic well-being in body, mind, and soul; by empowering users to prevent disease, enhance life satisfaction, and age gracefully. In the era of mobile healthcare, information and solutions are at our fingertips, making prevention, maintenance, and treatment more accessible. Join us in cracking the code to lifelong health through safe, natural practices, supported by diet, lifestyle, and stress management tools. Your Sweet Life is the key to a healthier, happier future.
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Discover - Define - Design - Develop
Key personas, competitor heuristic analysis, empathy mapping, customer journeys, and qualitative research informed the decision to create an inclusive product that would serve the whole person - body, mind and soul.
Secondary Research
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Vast market potential and need for mobile healthcare apps.
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Cancer and heart disease are the number one causes of death worldwide. Stress is also related to the cause of disease.
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Plant based diet high in fruits and vegetables can not only prevent disease, but reverse it as well.
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77% of young adults (ages 18-29) used their phones to look up health conditions
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84 million people in the US use health care apps
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30% of the adult smartphone population rely on this technology for better information about their health.
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Global mobile health app market size was valued at 43.5 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a compound annual rate of 11.6% from 2023-2030.
Research Methodologies
User interviews were conducted on five people, between the ages of 30-65.
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They all desired to have a personalized wellness plan that helped them to prevent disease with diet and lifestyle.
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They also want to look and feel their best.
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Plugged into alternative methods of health management and education such as apps, social media influencers, privatized testing, supplementation and biohacking.
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Quality of life is a priority
Findings
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Participants had a reckoning with themselves; a moment that inspired them to change their habits, whether it be desired weight loss, disease, or a family member who they didn’t want to end up like.
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Negative experiences with the health care system, doctors and/or medications creates a desire to avoid such interactions. They sought out a diet and exercise plan, implemented new habits and noticed an improvement in how they felt.
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They desire connection with a community of others who are going through similar experiences, and to get the support they need when they need it.
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They want to accomplish this with diet and lifestyle - A personalized health plan with metrics to track and measure improvement.
Empathy Map
Showed how invested users are in personal healthcare management and showed I needed to incorporate education around diet and lifestyle.
How Might We
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help people manage stress and give them the tools to prevent cancer and heart disease, while guiding them to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.
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How might we help them to look and feel their best?
Hypothesis
Provide all the tools and resources in one product that makes personal health management feel seamless, comprehensive and intuitive for people who are already using technology on a daily basis.
Help people manage stress, prevent cancer and heart disease, coupled with support to build a life they love spiritually and mentally.
Furthermore, the product serves two users:
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health coaches who serve clients
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health and wellness boutique population who are searching for apps online
Define
Persona
Understanding the user was a priority and creating a persona served as a reference anchor throughout the design process of who I am designing for.
Millennials and near millennials are the target market for this product. They are working professionals who have either just begun to manage their health or have a plan in place and want to keep improving their game.
Ideate
By creating a site map, I could clearly see/imagine the information hierarchy of each product feature
Sketch - Flows - Wireframes
Initial ideate sketches were imagined of what could be possible with the product.
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Some flows of commonly used app features mapped the way for guerilla testing.
After mapping out some commonly used flows, I created low fidelity wireframes, and a design system to keep future designs and iterations consistent.
Guerilla Testing
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There's a strong interest in a finished product.
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The icons and text in the bottom navigation needed to be larger to increase visibility.
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Add music to the journaling activities I’m thinking classical.
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Binaural beats, or nature sounds would suit this product well.
Product Vision
Users are able to cultivate more than just an A+ health report. They are given the tools they need to live in alignment with their life goals and purpose, while managing the stressors of everyday life.
Brand Identity & Value
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Natural tones of earth, sea and sky.
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Users all agree the color choice compliments the purpose well, and invokes feelings of calmness and serenity.
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Plant based, restorative, inspiring, balancing
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Holistic, healthy lifestyle living that encompasses how to think, eat and move.
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Your Sweet Life is the go-to type of app users feel they cannot live without.
Design - Brand Assets
Logo
Creating a style guide allowed me to keep consistency within the design over time
The Solution
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Teach people how to prevent health problems from occurring (or manage them) in a safe and natural way
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Motivate them to take consistent action.
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Provide people with the tools and support they need to age gracefully into the future with diet, lifestyle, and stress management.
High Fidelity
2 Rounds of Moderated User Testing
1 Round Iterations
Redesign bottom icon menu for improved navigation and comprehension.
More icon section - number of links were reduced to help the user find exactly what they were looking for.
Interpretations of emojis differ between people - label emojis
Back and save buttons clarify task completion
Choose only ingredients needed
Populates a list & editable grocery cart
Users like seeing recipe ingredients displayed in the meal plan
Done button
Ingredients added in clickable form
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There was confusion about where to find the fitness and nutrition journal (though there was a journal icon).
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Users went to the landing page for each of these topics first (rather than clicking on the journal icon) that would take them to the journal landing page. They usually got this on the second or third try, which I found surprising.
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This makes a redesign of the layout an option to validate a hypothesis that having all the most used components and cards all on the homepage will solve the navigation problem (since users would not have to go from page to page to complete most tasks).
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The use of vertical and horizontal scrolling would allow for most of the content to be displayed in one place.
Conclusion
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Users shared being excited about using a product like this.
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Designing the other flows and A/B testing with the new homepage vs the original design.
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Incorporate AI into meal planning, education and coaching.
I would work on the redesign of the navigation for a second version. Then I would conduct more usability testing and compare results. Content development is a big part of this project and there are more aspects to be developed and worked out such as the rewards, goals set up, labs and metrics.