Andrea Ho
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100 Day Design Challenge

I officially began on February 26, 2017 and completed the design challenge on June 5, 2017. I began with little to no design knowledge, and my goal was to become familiar and quicker with design tools and see how much I've improved from Day 1 all the way to Day 100.

The most valuable lesson I’ve learned in the past 100 days was that designing wasn’t just simply placing nice colours and shapes onto a page. It’s really about solving the greater user experience problem, to provide a seamless, problem-free experience for all users, whether it be within an app or a website.

Day 56 - GetFIT

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Today I decided to create something related to health. As I started to explore the different routes in health, I remembered that my friends use an app to track their meals. So I reached out to one of them and asked what they usually focus on in the app. She said she focused mostly on her Calorie count on the fitness app: My Fitness Pal. From this, I decided to make a screen focused mainly on calorie count.

For the GetFIT's homepage, I wanted to create something similar to MyFitnessPal. There will be a newsfeed of recent articles written by GetFIT that encourages healthy living. By clicking the hamburger icon, this will allow the user to access the different tools within GetFIT. One of them is the Calorie Count tool.

As for the Calories page, I wanted to make sure the user can visually understand how many calories they have to consume until they have reached their goal. As for the meals, the user will be able to click the different circles to input their meal, by taking a picture and inputting the calorie intake for that meal. Then the app will automatically calculate the number of calories taken for the day. I wasn't sure if the Nutrient Balance Score was necessary as there is a separate screen for that. Now that I think about it, I should've taken it out.

One thing I would change/add to the Calorie screen is the ability for the user to navigate to different days.

This was definitely one of the more fun designs I created. I got to talk to a real user to hear what they liked and disliked about their current app.

 
Andrea Ho