Designing User Experience. Fitness 360
Designing User Experience
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Designing User Experience: Fitness 360
Fitness 360 is a new Smartphone application that enables users to gain fitness and control their body sizes, shapes and weight. Human bodies are made of different components, and all the components need to balance for a person to become healthier. The application developed for fitness was entitled to incorporate all the aspects of the field, developers and the stakeholders. An application was made for the people in between the age of 20 and 60 years. These users can read and write and follow instructions clearly as they are articulated. According to the statistics, the majority of people living in the world range between 20 and 60 years. These people comprise of the majority number that dies everyday through lifestyle diseases. Every person in the world needs to remain fit so as to resist some dangerous diseases. Technological advancements have a chance to serve people because of the high number of patients while doctors are few. The mobile application presented in this paper is one of the best ways to ensure that health matters are handled with care both in the house and the office.
There are very many advantages of involving users and stakeholders in creating an application. The users give their views on the application they need and how they need an application to appear. The application must be user friendly, such that when a user opens it guides him/her on how to operate it. The stakeholders comprise of the people who provide resources during the creation of the application. The resources include money, information, infrastructure, application development, and equipment developers. All these people have an impact on the production of an application. When creating the medical application the developers take most of the time getting information from the medical personnel to know how to give prescriptions. The application created should be good enough to solve medical problems associated with overweight (Steward 2013:14).
The first screenshot shows the login page. The designers have set the login page to be the default start page so that when the user clicks on the application he/she logs in to access other information. The design of the login page gives the user an option of putting the username and the password to be able to log in and enjoy the benefits of the application. The provisions of logging in needs authentication for somebody to access the application. From this page, one of the recommendations of the users and stakeholders of security is addressed. The application is secure from unauthorized people because anybody who tries to log in must have the correct username and password. The application ensures the privacy of each user and there are no fears of information sharing with inappropriate people. There is another option of opening the application with Facebook. Social networks have taken control of the lives of most people. Through Facebook, the user of the application is able to share fitness information with friends by posting on their pages.
According to the stakeholders and the users’ the application has to alert the user on the angles to stand when taking the photos. The application needs to take photos of all the positions of the body which include the front view, back view, and side view. The application also has to alert the user on the distance to stand away from the camera. The system integrates the photos and analyses them to determine the workout strategy to employ. The advantages of having this application helps the users to contain their information to themselves rather than exposing it to the medical doctors and medical institutions. People with obesity tend to have a low self esteem, and they do not want people to know their status. The application will enable them to check their status of cholesterol at their convenience places. Although, the system is secure there are possibilities of leaking the information out through use of weak passwords or through untrustworthy service providers.
There is an option of forgot password that allows the user to retrieve the account that is lost through forgetfulness. The last option on the login page is a sign up button. The button enables a new member to open an account for fitness. Fitness 360 application does not discriminate people through race, education level or class, but it is open to all people across the globe. Once an individual opens an account, the account and the information of the user are stored directly to the database. The database of the application is managed online by a service provider. The service provider has the responsibility of ensuring that the data of every individual is safe and confidential. The user has a mandate of showing people his/her own information.
The next photo shows the next page of the application. This is the immediate page after a successful login. The page has an option of moving back one step through clicking on the Back button. The connection between one page of the application to the others gives the user an easy task to go to the next page at ease without switching the application to go to the starting point. The next slot has areas where the user fills in the details. The application requires the name of the person who is using it for easy storage of data. The age of the user is necessary to enable the machine know the mechanisms to use in evaluating an individual, there are activities for old and young people whereby both of them are different. Gender of the individual is necessary to guide the machine to activate the mechanism for the right gender. The height of the individual enables the application to know the area covered by the individual. The weight of the individual allows the machine to determine the problems of an individual in relation to race. After filling in the data, the application provides another option to attach a photo. The option attaches picture gives the user the option to put a picture that is in the memory of the phone. Take picture option, gives the user to take a photo and post it in the frame. The Done command button is necessary to complete the activities of the page. Clicking on done the application automatically goes to the next step.
The third platform of the application displays the whole image of the user and gives the user the option to choose on the part of the body to start exercising. Through touching the body part, the application starts by concentrating on the body part chosen by the user until when the user feels cannot do anything anymore. The user will continue to touch the parts that need a workout until the individual is satisfied. The application not only shows the user what to do, but also how to do it. The page has a button for a profile, when the user dials the button he/she goes to the profile that contains the name, sex, and age of the user. There are options of changing the profile information and put different names. The only hard thing that cannot be changed is the data that shows the activities the patient’s workout. The users and the stakeholder’s anticipations were reached because the system is capable of identifying the problems of an individual.
The application contains all the health workouts that work in different ways to the people’s bodies. The application chooses different workout for each person. The application knows the requisite exercises for building an individual’s muscle. The application also has workouts that are necessary for reducing or increasing an individual’s weight. There is a large number of people in the world who are suffering from obesity, mostly due to the lack of workouts and eating junk food. These people suffering from obesity have the opportunity of losing weight through the Fitness 360 application. During the workout, the phone becomes the instructor and the user are advised to follow all the rules and guidelines to the letter to avoid endangering the body. The application gives the user a duration to complete the exercise, when doing an exercise the application measures the room temperature and assesses the user in relation to the temperature. The users and stakeholders of the application have realized one of their main objective that was to create a product that serves people well and takes away humanly stress.
Fitness 360 is available in the market for people to purchase and use. The marketing stakeholders located the application on the internet and at a place that is easy to get. Advertising, the application, gives it more publicity and most people come to learn about it and make purchases. The most important thing for a business is to make profits from the products produced. Fitness 360 cannot be downloaded for free from the internet and the buyers must pay before receiving the product. The application delivers the best services compared to other applications that are in the market. Development of online selling and buying has made it easy for people to exchange goods and services. Software production is different from other businesses because it depends on the level of security of the entity that produces software. There is a free version that is already in the market and the first people who will install the applications will do it for free. Although, free product is in place, the retail product attracts customers because of the services offered. The free version does not contain all the properties of the application. Releasing the free version to the market is one of the ways of advertising and getting a large number customers (Carol 2011: 45).
The human body has very many complexities and if not taken care of, the body carefully develops toxins. The toxins are very dangerous because they cause death. Creating the Smartphone medical application for commercial use has been in the minds of most stakeholders and users of the application. The users of the medical application are very happy because it exercises their bodies and helps them to remove harmful toxins.
After having a workout, the application reports all the activities conducted while working out. The page displaying the results is designed to show how all the information garnered during the workout. The designers of the program partitioned the body into seven major parts. Different colours indicate each part of the body. The total workout of the day is indicated with the number of exercises conducted that particular time of the workout. The application has an option where the application analyses the data concerning workouts. Arrangement of data accumulates according to days, months, and years. Through the analysis, the user will be able to see whether there is any difference exhibited. The other things that the analysis page includes is the estimated fat percentage, body mass index, waist to hip ratio, basal metabolic rate, and the height and weight of the user. The application also provides for an option where the user will request for the doctors’ advice. The application is programmed basing on the research conducted on 55 people. When there are no changes noticed then the user is recommended to see a medical doctor determine the problem.
Other than providing the analysis, Fitness 360 is also working together with professionals from the medical field such as physicians, cardiologists, and dieticians from the nutrition field and also fitness trainers. Most fitness trainers provide a workout video that replaces an exercise doll as seen in most fitness software in today’s market. A workout video is beneficial to the users than the dolls that exercise movement; the movement in the video is real, and it provides a routine activity just like the professional trainers. The application is elaborate with an exercise routine, together with breathing directives and body parts tension that should be felt during the workout.
When one taps the button for medical advices, a new page shows containing a list of health problems that an individual could be facing. The application also contains a list of the appropriate instructions from the doctors and the prescriptions. The dietician advice tab shows the page that contains the recommended food. The list of food contains the best foods that enable an individual to live a healthy life. There are also recommendations that suggest what the user should avoid.
In conclusion, designing of applications must be compliant to the needs of the users and the stakeholders. A well-designed chronological order of the pages of the application gives the users a humble time to operate the application. In application development, security is a fundamental item that the developer puts in mind. The application in place has security measures because the user must authenticate himself through putting a username and password. The next page of the application contains a form that the user fills into for the purpose of entering the data into the database. The application analyses the information relating to the user and displays the analysed data for recommendations. The recommendations are usually techniques of doing exercises, seeing a medical report that is generated by the application and the list of the food that the user is supposed to eat. Therefore, Fitness 360 is capable of solving peoples’ problems.
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