MotivePlus is a fitness community helps user to nourish their fitness motivation and achieve their fitness goals by influenced from advanced success stories and practicing on professional fitness plans.
In the era of social media, people tend to care more about their physical appearance and body attractiveness than ever before. We keep registering for gym memberships and fitness classes to maintain our health and body shape each year. While, around 80 percent of Americans who have a gym membership do not use the gym.
And here is the problem: How many people can actually stick to their fitness plan actively?
Only 10%
Research shows that, in the year 2019, 95% of New Year's Resolution are fitness related and after just 3 months, only 10% of people think their resolution will last.
* A survey conducted by Sundried from 2019 among 4,000 people.
UX Designer
UX/ UI, Research
UX Design Team
Sep 2018- Oct 2018
In 2019, only 10 percent of people will persist in implementing their fitness plan for more than 3 month. People easily give up on their fitness goals for some reason.
Are we able to design an app easy enough to motivate users on their daily fitness plan?
Introduce attractive fitness related topics constantly to trigger user’s interests and keep the freshness.
Provide reliable structural workout instructions and advice from experts.
Build a personal growth system encouraging user to create, share, and communicate for further achievements.
The ultimate goal is to form a self-operated fitness community that created by users and enjoyed by users.
User can get instant fitness motivation by receiving posts from advanced users. The motivated posts can be added to user’s motivation boards in profile page. User can also name different boards to the motivations.
When reading post from advanced user, people also can directly add their fitness plan to their own workout planner. When they are ready for a workout, they can choose from professional workout plans for self created one. Detailed instructions will be provided.
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After reviewing some secondary research, we start conducting surveys to gather brief information regarding user's workout/ fitness preference. Questions were including: workout locations, whether or not have companions, interaction with mobile devices, instructions and assistance and so on.
167 surveys were received in total.
People preferred workout locations are evenly distributed on gym and home. Among the people who usually workout at gym, over 70% of people choose it for wide select fitness equipment.
Most people will bring mobile devices (smartphones, wearable devices) to workout with them, but only 27% of them would keep using fitness app.
Among the people who use fitness app during workout time: 51% use it to review training material; 41% use it to help tracking fitness data; 25% use it to enforce fitness habits.
Reasons people quit using fitness apps are: complex to operate, do not need assistants, too many advertisements, less accurate records.
All-day activity tracking app cooperates with Fitbit’s activity tracker and other smart devices to help users to build health profile and monitor their exercise activities.
Track activity; Record workouts; Monitor heart rate; Log calories with barcode scanner; Measure hydration; Set and manage weight; Nutrition and exercise goals; Share with friends and family.
Award-winning fitness app offers user trustworthy and relatable coaching experience with the world's best health and fitness experts.
Weekly healthy living videos; Health and wellbeing courses; Weekly workouts programs; Video workout tutorials; Apple Health integration.
Short and effective workouts designed for short on time female users to make exercising a daily habit.
Short (7 mins) workouts tutorials; Easy to learn and perform; No location and equipment restrictions; Audio and video instructions with timer; Daily workout reminder; Apple Health integration.
The workout plans app provides users personal gym coach experiences with customized workout plan that is tailored to users fitness goals and abilities.
Guided gym workout plans; Search exercises by muscle group, equipment type; Audio cues between sets; Modify premade workout; Save favorite exercises.
In the brainstorming stage, we were using affinity diagram to collaborate possible solution ideas and gather each of the solution into categories, such as:
To evaluate our possible solutions and gathering further in-depth insights from user, we conducted the first round user interview from 15 people. We labeled the interviewers by their fitness level:
Beginners are more likely to give up and quit on fitness routines because they usually expect to get rewards immediately after each fitness session.
For someone who plan to lose weight through workout, it’s hard to see dramatic physical results after an 1-hour session. In psychology, study shows our natural human inclination towards instant gratification. Which in this case, if beginners not get any instant gratification after each workout, they would easily get discouraged or just give up.
Intermediate users are people step into the field for a while, and require for more professional assistants over workout equipment, training on particular muscle groups, and more reliable workout schedule and pace.
A more specific and realistic workout plan from experts would bring them efficiency and effectiveness to current stage.
Advanced users are fitness enthusiasts who are highly motivated toward their fitness goals. The group of users are clearly understand their main strengths and weaknesses. They tend to have structural plans and proactively working on exploit and improve their weaknesses.
For that reason, the advanced users enjoy communicating with people in different levels to gain extra knowledge and inspiration from them. They also love offering help as well.
“I’d like to set fitness role model from social media influencers or friends with good shapes around me, and want to figure out what fitness plan they implemented. But it’s hard to know because some topic may offend their privacy.”
“I need a more systematic approach and more effective workout plan from experts like the personal trainer in my gym. While, $100/ hr still considered a little pricey for me.”
“I used to be a part-time personal trainer and I like helping others in the gym. Because I can always get inspired by looking at different aspects of workout through others experience. People would get advantages and resources from exchanging thoughts.”
Wireframes for three difference use cases ocmallu noitaticrexe durtson siuq ,mainev minim da mine tUtauqesnoc odommoc ae xe piuqila tu isin sirobal ocmallu noitaticrexe durtson siuq ,mainev minim da mine.
Top slide bar can be slide to left, for filtering the post categories; On the post detail page, buttons suggest the workout plan’s restrictions; Add pro plan to my planner using the second icon on the bottom.
Allow user to name a new motivation set or choosing the existing one; Every subsection on My Profile can be slide left and right for ease of use; Top progress bar shows users current level; Icon next to username in grey scale if use is not a paid member.
Get to My Motivations through My Profile; User collected motivations from the home page post can be found here.
Red notice would appear on Today’s To-Do card and Workout icon when there is task not finished; Categorizing workout list by its attributes.
Every list item can be edited any time by user when slide the section to left; Professional Plans can be accessed through Workout page.
Fast and convenient use the roller to log workout sets user is doing. The red notice will show the number of sets that need to be finished.
To create a new post, simply tab on the plus button on the menu. Following the app’s suggestions, link workout plan and media files by the end.