Restaurant Locator App

The Challenge: To be able to help people who travel frequently make better choices when eating out.

The Problem: Locating nearby restaurants with healthy choices in unfamiliar cities.
But.. Why?
​It’s SO hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle if you travel frequently for work. Research shows that travel on a regular basis can lead to hypertension, high blood pressure, and decreased activity.
Overtime, these issues only build up and put our health at a higher risk. Having the tools to combat these health issues and manage health problems as they arrive will allow the user to continue living a chaotic lifestyle, with less stress.
Interviews and Results
For this case study, I interviewed:
  • Weekly Travelers
  • Monthly Travelers
  • Occasional Travelers
Positives Trends:
  • Exploring new places
  • Trying new foods and local cuisine
  • Experiencing the local culture
  • Socialization
Negative Trends:
  • Time constraints
  • Multiple search engines
  • Lack of local food beyond fast-food
  • Lack of healthy and filling foods
Empathy Map Findings
How Might We... ?
  • Stay full?
  • Stay Motivated?
  • Decrease travel time?
  • Find fast, healthy food?
The Idea
  • A smart watch that uses advanced bio-technology to monitor blood sugar levels, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, cortisol levels, blood pressure, dopamine, etc.
  • Smart watch sends data to users app on mobile phone, which user then uses data to make healthier choices. Smart watch will also send alerts through the smart watch letting the user know when their blood sugar levels are dropping and suggests a typical snack the user likes (set up earlier in preferences), alerts of dehydration, alerts of stress, etc. as well as suggestions for how to manage those things as they arrive, and suggestions for healthy restaurants while traveling.
  • As user completes managing task and the smart patch detects the positive change in the user’s health, the user will receive points on the app which can be redeemed later for health/fitness related items or events.
Brainstorm
Smart watch
Monitors:
  • Activity levels
  • Calorie intake
  • Hydration
Sends data:
  • To phone app
  • Shows when/what was last consumed
  • Shows when to eat again
  • Makes recommendations based on monitored factors
Notifications:
  • On smart watch
  • Alerts when it's time to rehydrate
  • Alerts when it's time for a snack
  • Makes snack suggestions
Wire-Frames, Round One
Smart-watch
  • Smart-watch face on the inner arm for privacy protection
  • Monitor health, send data to your connected phone app, and send you notifications
  • Restaurant locator
Phone App
  • Restaurant locator
  • User information (entered by user during onboarding)
  • Progress monitor
User Testing and Feedback, Round One
During my user testing, a lot of the feedback I received was centered around the use and ease of the smart-watch.
​Why have two separate devices for notifications, restaurant locator, and suggestions for snacks?
Wireframes, Round Two
Smart-patch
  • Monitor's health in real-time
  • Sends data to phone app
  • Discreet
Phone App
  • Restaurant locator
  • User information (entered by user during onboarding)
  • Progress monitor
  • Notifications
  • Snack Suggestions
I created a working paper prototype using marvelapp.
You can test out the prototype yourself here:
https://marvelapp.com/2ffhgfc
User Testing and Feedback, Round Two
The smart-patch was well received among users. During testing, users asked how the app would help the user stay motivated to make healthy choices. In the high-fidelity wire-frames below, I added a points-reward system that the user will be able to redeem points for fitness-related devices, coupons to healthy restaurants, book massage appointments, etc.
High-Fidelity Prototype
High-fidelity wire-frames created in Adobe XD.