The concept of natural and healthy has changed and it also changes our lifestyle. Weight-loss diets have gone to another plane of our lives, now we want to be healthy and feel good with ourselves.
Although this is not enough, we have become demanding consumers and we get an accelerated way of life that doesn’t allow us to lead a “healthy life”. What We would really like is to buy and cook healthy food and to practice sportive activity every day. A proof of that is the growing market of gadgets and apps that monitorize our meals’s calories, and that plan and track our physical activity.
But what about our inspiration…
Related to our sport activity, our coaches inspire us. They are who tell us what exercises we have to do. In that moment, everything is under control, we just pick up the pace and perform to our full potential.
But if we are talking about balanced diet, most of the people we talk to, they tell us that they know what healthy food is, but when they think of healthy recipes their minds go blank, so making a healthy shopping list is an impossible mission. They also tell us that many times, when they are in the supermarket, they don’t know what they have in their kitchen. At that time, the shopping moment becomes a lottery, and most of the times it ends up buying prepared meals.
After that, we thought about how we could inspire these people, how we could give them a tool where they could find healthy recipes, add the food storaged in their kitchen and check it anywhere. But also we would like to help them to make their best-and-healthy shopping list.
This is how the idea of Healthy Meals app came up. At the beginning, we were focused on the main sections: Recipes, In the Kitchen and My Shopping List. But after a few testing experiments, in person and also online, we were enhanced the user experience at some items. Eve though those items are not the core of the app, they are really important for users: edit the password, find information of the app or have some different ways to get the homepage. All of them are basic items, but when you are so focused on developing the main idea of the app or the website, you forget them. The test participants helped us to realize that these details are important, and can make a satisfactory user experience.
When we put in their shoes, we decided to add the possibility of keeping the favorites recipes. We would also like users can add their own recipes and share them with others.
