Healin

CONCEPT DESIGN · 1 MINUTE IDEA · MOBILE

Overview

Healin is a mobile application for people who want to recover eating disorder. People with an eating disorder need to consume various foods, including energy-dense foods, to safely and effectively restore their bodies. This application helps them to regain their body and their wellness.

My Role & Contributions

Led the design decision-making based on the user flow, style guides, and UI components in order to create a consistent product design.Designed user flows, wireframes and interactive mockups.
Conceptualized new user behaviors through storyboards and user journey maps.

Project Type

UX service design

Tools

Figma
FigJam
Miro
Illustrator
After Effects

Duration

8 weeks

Team

Individual Project

ABOUT HEALIN

Healin application is an app for Eating disorders and an eating plan; a nutrition-based food application high in diet variety and energy density may help restore physical health and psychological well-being and prevent future relapse.

PERSONAL
EXPERIENCE

“I've struggled with eating disorder for the past 4 years. It was an ongoing battle, and I was obsessed with losing weight and started to control eating less food. Then gradually I tried to count every single calories I ate, and eventually I restricted my eating. I felt physically weakened every day.
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Though I am fully recovered I still try to keep track of eating unhealthy foods and I came out with an idea of an app service for people with Eating disorders that want to recover but still need help for choosing food.”

DISCOVER

BACKGROUND

About 10% of the U.S. population had experience with an eating disorder. According to the survey conducted by south magazine and university of south carolina,about 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer a significant eating disorder in their lifetime, and 5–10% die within 10 years, and 18–20% will be dead after 20 years.

What is an Eating Disorder?

An eating disorder is when someone begins eating too much, or when someone begins to avoid eating.
It is a serious, complex, mental health issue that one’s affects emotional and physical health. Eating disorders are problems that affect a person’s eating behaviors as well as their attitudes and feelings about food — and about their body.

People with eating disorders develop an unhealthy relationships with food, their weight or appearance.Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder are all types of eating disorders.5-10% of American women experience Eating Disorders.

What causes Eating Disorder?

The exact causes of Eating disorders are unknown. Past trauma, lack of control over their lives, and feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, depression, and stressful events all play a role.Some things can increase a person's chance of having an eating disorder, such as

poor body image
too much focus on weight or looks
dieting at a young age
playing sports that focus on weight (gymnastics, ballet, ice skating, and wrestling)
having a family member with an eating disorder
mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, or OCD

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Teenagers and Young Adults who suffer from Eating Disorder find hard to recover and gain weight by eating healthy because they still restrict calories which makes them feel scared and anxious when they try to consume food.

EMPATHY MAP

What People with
Eating Disorders SAY

SOLUTION

What do people with Eating Disorders need to do?

People with eating disorder need to be offered a wide variety of foods including energy dense foods in treatment to safely and effectively restore their body.
For the patient with anorexia nervosa, energy intake of 3000 to 4000 kcal may be required to achieve weight restoration, even when physical activity is restricted.

What could be the Solution?

Getting creative about nutrition and suggesting meal plans can ease the pressure that would otherwise be put on certain foods, and help them recover effectively.

An eating plan, A nutrition based food application that is high in diet variety and energy density may actually help restore physical health, psychological well being, and prevent future relapse.

An eating plan that suggests to choose their own food and recommend nutritiously balanced meals could successfully help people with eating disorders.

I created a nutrition based dietary application , named “Healin”.
It’s an eating plan that suggests to choose their own food and recommend nutritiously balanced meals, but without showing Calories.

FINAL OUTPUT

HIGH FIDELITY DESIGN

My Nutrition status

My Nutrition status shows the progress of all of the nutrition I consumed, and It tracks what nutrition I need and have, how much I’m doing well.It inspires them to be more nutritious and reduce the fear of food and increase eating habit.

My Nutrition Status

My Nutrition status shows the progress of all of the nutrition I consumed, and It tracks what nuturition I need and have, how much I’m doing well.It inspires them to be more nutritious and reduce the fear of food and increase eating habit.

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Pairing Food

This pairing food feature suggests good food ingredient combination and recipe based on How many food groups you’ve included. For example, this feature shows “This tomato has calcium nutrients which can help eyesight” instead of showing calories and fat content,

Community Forum

Community feature is to share and communicate each other's thoughts and encourage their recovery. The more people you're with, the better. They can support and connect with each other, which will make them that they're not alone and help focus on their recovery.

REFLECTION

What I learned

My goal for this idea is to help people to have a peaceful relationship with food by offering proper nutrition. I hope this can ease the pressure that would be put on certain foods, and effectively restore and recover their body.I found out there were more people experiencing eating disorders than I thought while researching and there should be more ways to offer healthy relationship with eating foods, and they need support with their friends and families.

Next Steps

For the next step I would Iike to understand their feelings and add additional features such as adding alerts when they stay in a bathroom for a long time.Also, I would like to validate my hypothesis by actually interviewing a person with eating disorder and feel their pain, and do a userbility concept test.