I noticed that commuters like me on campus have a hard time balancing healthy eating, schoolwork, and their social lives. Everyone seems driven to eat healthier, but no one acts upon it because it sacrifices time and energy away from social activities.
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I designed an app concept where students can get together and plan social events around healthy eating and mindfulness.

It became clear to me that all commuters intended to eat healthier. They all had a common motive to eat healthier, but lacked the accountability and passion to act upon it because their social desires outweighed their goal for better nutrition. To use this mindset to their advantage, it became important to me to design an app for commuters to stay aware of their friend group’s dieting goals to enjoy eating healthy together.

I focused my design on making it easier for students to get together and plan social events around healthy eating and mindfulness. Using a messaging system and a calendar within the app, users are able to plan events with their group and be provided with healthy options depending on their health needs. Those using this application will be able to keep each other accountable with their goals and pair other dieting apps to be able to monitor their physical health.

Commuters should be able to easily plan healthy cooking and eating events with their group of friends, at home or on campus. Displaying each person’s basic nutritional data helps every member track their goals and enables him or her to hold others accountable.

The adaptations of what I wanted from other fitness apps became clear with these paper prototypes. It was important that my design was maintained by a balance of social media and nutritional data. As commuters tend to be more time-constrained in and out of campus than those living on campus, a schedule screen was necessary to include.