Pregnancy Nutrition App
The nutrition app is geared towards pregnant women who want to obtain information on how to eat better and correctly for the duration of their pregnancy. The app will help women track their pregnancy week-by-week and make recommendations to help women stay current on their changing nutritional needs.
Jun 18, 2014 @ 20:45:21
Hey Diana,
In general, I’d encourage you to make this less of a linear experience and more of one where anyone can enter and tweak depending on where they are in their pregnancy. Get to the meat of the content as quickly as possible. I think that likely the first screen of your app is actually 5.0, the nutrition screens.
Related, having to do setup as soon you start an app isn’t really much fun. Instead default to the beginning of a pregnancy and make it easy to change the date.
On the week picking, it’s a little tedious right now and hard to read. If all the weeks are being listed then maybe list them 5 in a row, as that’s a more natural grouping. But maybe consider a picker or something more standard to make selection easier (http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/pickers.html).
Side note, I learned that the drop down in menu from the action bar is called a “spinner” on Android (http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/spinners.html). It depends on how the content gets grouped in the future as to if a spinner or maybe a tab bar will end up being the best solution.
Even on 5.0, how can you provide the most of the most useful information for your user? It seems like more could be on that page. Could you suggest a meal/snack contextually to what time of the day it is? I like being able to get more detailed meal plans for everything but as something secondary if I want to do more planning. With meal planning, would it be nice to mark things as favorites to return to?
Will ‘what to avoid’ change during different times of the pregnancy or is it always the same?
So, I’d say make 5.0 your main view and make it easy to change the week from there. Make sure and give as much useful content as you can on each screen. Think about the user and what the regular flow of opening of the app and accessing information would be. Additionally, how can you help them get information for right now or plan their week?