Brianna, Tesheni, Angelysse, Skyleen, Careshma
Mood Appeal
The product:
Mood Appeal is an app that assists users in finding a specific food that can improve their current mood if needed. Users can also locate where to find that product nearby, along with suggesting alternative options. Users can also scan the ingredient list and learn if it’s a good choice or not.
Project Overview
Project duration:
March-June
Logo Design
Team Apricot
The social issue:
Young adults usually don't have time in their day for a proper meal. They often resort to using food delivery apps, which tend to be unsatisfying. People's moods change due to differences in lifestyle and diet.
This lead to changes in their mood
Project Overview
The goal:
Giving users a reliable source of information,
validation, and helpful tools that can benefit
their lives long term and satisfy their needs in
the moment.
Team roles and Responsibilities:
Brianna - Researcher; finds information regarding our app development and data then implements it within our work.
Tesheni- Team Leader; keeps work in check, turns in majority of work for the team, in control of emails and communication.
Careshma -Note taker. Keeps track on deadlines
Sky - Designer; Creates main app designs and layouts for the app.
Angelysse - Collecting Data through creating google forms.
Project Overview
Understanding Our User
Market Research
User Research/Background
Persona: James Monroe
Persona profile:
James
*19*
*In College*
*Queens, NY*
*Shy*
*Very Introverted*
*Has Depression(masks it)*
James is a college student suffering from depression who needs motivation to improve his diet & mood
because different foods can impact our emotions, both positively & negatively.
He has pressure from exams, projects, figuring out what he wants to do with his life. As a result, he doesn't get to eat a full meal in the mornings due to night classes. In the morning he feels unenergized to get out of bed and lacks motivation.
Goals
Frustration
Persona: Linda Gatsby
Linda
17
High School Junior,
Jamaica, Queens
*Losing self control*
*Can’t focus*
*Stressed*
Linda is a junior and she does a lot of extracurricular activities. She is struggling to keep up with her work due to not being able to eat properly. As a result she ends up having a lot of headaches.
Linda is a junior in highschool, who needs to maintain her memory for currents exams and extracurricular activities.
Research shows eating foods that benefit you will enhance cognitive skill & memory.
Goals
Frustration
User needs
Availability
Availability relates to how the user will experience ease within the app. There is diversity of food times & locations available in our app.
Guidance
Guidance on improving or adding new foods based on their mood. It provides finding a steady meal plan maintaining their mood.
Directiveness
It is important to not sugar coat the information and have the user feel satisfied based on their recommendation
Evaluations
It brings awareness to your mood, as well your eating habits due to current mood.
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User Journey Maps
User signs or logs in Mood Appeal
User chooses current mood from options
Users can use the Journey option to see their progress or any thoughts they write about.
The scanner allows users to scan their food item and find out the health benefits and additional facts.
App recommends different foods based off your mood
If it’s the users first time, a questionnaire is given to create an account.
Sample of Interaction flowchart
Mockups
Screenshots of your main frames
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High-fidelity�prototype
Screenshot of prototype with connections or prototype GIF
Accessibility considerations
Perceivable
Opperable
Understandable
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Going forward
Takeaways
Impact:
The impact that we hope to gain from our app is to have people have a positive outlook on food, gaining a sense of clarity on what foods can hurt & or uplift people moods. Also, we want people to be comforted and provide nutritional facts that will benefit them long term.
What you learned:
We learned that in order to create a fully functional app, we needed to sympathize with our target audience from a first perspective.
Next Steps
Our next steps for the future regarding our project is to change the position of different elements in our app. For example, the position of icons, swirls,
If we had more time we would incorporate another idea such as using AI to detect different moods based on scanning users facial features.
A feature that allows users to play a mini game for a chance to win free ingredients and free food of their choice. This way people who can’t afford certain meals or grocery items.
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Thank you!
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