I would love feedback on a Nutrition App I am building
Would you like to help me create my nutrition app to make it quick and easy for anyone (dietary preference) to get their essential daily nutrition through their diet? My idea has no counting, measuring, weighing or restricting required. Just more information about what is in food and how our bodies use it for optimal health.
When discussing nutritional health, we all hear people trot out popular and disproven advice such as 'eat less exercise more'. Less than what? More than what? How assumptious it is? Hearth Nutrition - my app idea - assumes nothing and accompanies you on a voyage of discovery about nutritional health.
As we are all have unique tastes, metabolisms, genetic decreases, ancestral diets, ethics and intolerances, I wanted to provide a solution that was inclusive and accessible to as many people as possible, to use how they want, accompany them on their own voyage of discovery about diet and one that could be trusted and credible.
My whole family have struggled with diet with mixed messages from official advice, opinion, health food shops, restaurants and trusting our own instincts to find what works to stay fit and healthy. My parents avoided processed food, were instinctively healthy and nutrition became a mindfield once food manufacturers started funding health research, lobbying and advertising from the 1980s. Micronutrients are still under-recognised for optimal mental, emotional and physical health.
Following nutritional scientists such as Dr Zoe Harcombe, Gary Taubes, Harvey Diamond and Tim Spector, reading their books as well as Harvard Health and Healthline plus various medical journals about micronutrients, I have seen more people say that eating nutrient rich food and getting essential daily micronutrients through diet before supplementing is optimal for human health and micronutrients are seldom mentioned by the press, official guidelines, healthcare or on food packaging or advertising.
I may have passed an unspoken word length, so if you would like to see app prototype, please get in touch as I haven't worked out the rules here and keep hitting brick walls. I am big on UX. I've done quite a few customer perspective routemaps for eCommerce as seeing the customers' navigation perspective really helps build a tribe of app users. So many companies assume customers will know what they know. To bring a wider section of the community into the fold, this makes new unfamiliar processes much more welcoming and accessible.
I don't know about helping to build it, but I'd take a look at what you have and give some feedback if you have a link handy. Maybe posting the link up-front and asking for feedback would work better? Unless you're keeping it under wraps deliberately for now.
Yes, just a reaction or response, feedback to my idea would be great. Thank you for your response.
I have put my research data into a no-code program called Appsheet, which provides all kinds of data about nutrition, how our body uses micronutrients and RDAs for supplements for vitamins and minerals not accessed in chosen diets. The design of the app is done in Figma, which I am presenting for funding to test via Android store.
From feedback so far, the app will be:
Sign in by email login or social media.
landing page with a tour of the app
Food library of nutritious foods available in UK with micronutrient information
Shopping list by aisle/food type - added by clicking a food item.
Food palette - foods at home can be added or from shopping list to plan meals.
Calendar - all nutrition gained that day plus other healthy activity will be stored for future review. (helps find food intolerance or weight fluctuations).
Here is the research data in mobile format to provide users with nutritional facts to use as they like:
https://www.appsheet.com/start/6bafb7b1-47c9-4330-95ec-d295028b7037
The reactions, responses I would like are: "what features would you expect for your nutritional knowledge/use?"
ie calorie counting? Micronutrient data, food data, meal planners, calendar, shopping tool, online purchases, etc.
To be honest I find the demo app confusing. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with it - it gives lots of information but doesn’t seem to actually do anything.
Aside from presenting information, does this actually do anything for the user? Can I figure out personalised macro/micro nutrient levels, excluded foods etc. and then generate meal recipes from that? I think that’s the only thing this app could offer users.
People don’t want lots of information thrown at them, they want something made simple. You can tell them why the simple thing is good, but this right now looks like the proposition is “here’s a bunch of information, figure something out yourself”.
Hi there,
Thank you for your response.
It is not a demo of what the app does. It has no function. Do you build apps? Do you code or program? I am on an entrepreneurship MSc to start a business and am just following my nose with no prior experience further ahead. A set of 10 screens with flo and behaviours has been designed in Figma if you would like to see how the app will work. It is exactly that: 'here is a bunch of information, so people can fill their own gaps in their existing knowledge'. My initial test was whether people would even trust the information but everyone seems to get it is just information, no opinion, assumptions or judgments. I really appreciate your response. thank you