Gamified Mindful Eating
Speculative App Design
A new app design to reinvent healthy eating habits for young adults through mindfulness and gamification
Masters Thesis Project
Category: Accessible Design, Speculative Design, Service Design
Methods: UX Research, Visual Design, UX design
Tools: Adobe CC, Figma, Miro
Are you struggling with your eating habits?
The fast-paced world we live in makes our work/academic or personal life rushed and mashed together. The frantic nature and excessive activities can lead us to an imbalance in our eating activity that affects our lifestyle. Moreover, having a lot on our plates makes it difficult for many of them to take care of themselves.
Target Audience
How can Routate help you?
A playful way for young adults to nurture healthy eating habits through gamification and journaling.
How might we increase the quality of daily meals for young adults who live alone and are usually busy working?
Lo-Fi Designs
Mid-Fi Designs
Designs Guidelines
Paper Prototype Testing
The form was circulated with the users as a paper prototype to find out their journaling and motivation to complete the task for a week
Quantitative Research
An online survey containing 15 questions was conducted to get insights from the targeted user group and received around 50 responses of which most of them were students, IT professionals, and stock traders between the ages of 20-35.
How might we solve users’ problems?
“I am constantly finding a lack of motivation for building eating habits”
How might we make habit-building more fun and meaningful?
We can gamify habit-building and have a virtual pet for the user
“Its difficult to find time to do it in fixed hours”
How might we make their journey relaxing and fun to build out?
We can use the journal option for making users check in on their own time
User Persona
User Flow
Competitive Analysis
Most food/nutrition tracking apps provide really good advice on nutrition intake and meal plans, but they don’t usually have features for reminding users to have a meal on time.
They are not many products that use gamification features and engaging awad systems
Weight loss is still the top hierarchy for most of the apps and it isn’t for this Routate It only suggests healthy eating habits that are customized to the users’ needs.
Most of the experience is very based on self-commitment, which is also a big challenge for my product. simple and easy to use. This effortlessness is exactly what I envisioned for this product.
Conclusion and Future Iterations:
This app has the potential to be a valuable resource for young adults looking to build healthy eating habits. Combining food journaling, meal planning, and community support creates a comprehensive approach to mindful eating. Through research, I found that food journaling can positively change eating behaviors. The app's features make this process easier and more convenient for users, along with a companion virtual pet to support them. This app could significantly improve overall health and well-being with further development and testing.