Image recognition Nutrition Diary App

Designing a nutrition diary for healthy-minded people to record nutrition simpler and faster.

ReMeal is a meal diary app that uses image recognition to help users write food diaries faster and ensure nutrition balance.Targeted users are young adults from age 20-35 who want to document and understand meal pattern from their nutrition intake.

MY ROLE

Product Designer

DURATION

8 weeks

TEAM

Amanda Hamlet
(Product Designer)

Deliverables

Prototype
Storyboard
User Flow

Why is ReMeal Special?

Current nutrition tracking apps requires users to tediously and manually weigh their food, search from data base, and enter proportion.
What if we want to exchange efficiency with a little accuracy?

What Does reMeal Do?

ReMeal helps users effortlessly document their meals by prioritizing easy data input and insights into users' nutrition content without the pressure of calorie counting.

Target Audience

Our audience consists of young adults (approximately 18 - 30 years old) who are interested in health, cooking, and/or nutrition and want to document their meals. More specifically, the characteristics of our target audience ranges from:

1

Nutrition watcher

who want to maintain balanced nutrition from diverse meals and ingredients and avoid excessive nutrition intake.

2

Fitness enthusiasts

who track macronutrient intake each meal to reach my exercise goals and maximize workout performance.

3

Weight Loss Seekers

who want to lose weight healthily through controlled diet without the burden of manual calorie calculation.

Latino woman preparing healthy meal in front of a clean kitchen

Meet Brianna

Brianna is a nutrition watcher.

She mostly cooks for herself to ensure she has balanced food source and nutrition.

She prefers her meal to have lots of vegetables, enough protein, and diverse food sources.

She is always keeping an eye on sodium and sugar of her food because she thinks they're unhealthy.

Flow and Design

Easily add meal input

The entire adding meal flow prioritizes easier input than manually entering food intake weights and amount.

Add Meal Task Flow

A plus button on the top of the page for user quick access

Homepage:
Quick button to start adding a meal

Users can add meals from one of three options

Add Meal Options:
Scan food package barcode, take photos, or add from camera roll

Pizza image will be analyzed by AI to document the ingredients and nutrition value

Image Recognition:
Analyzes meal nutrition from image

Nutrition will be split into categories and ingredients will be tagged

Customization:
User adjusts nutrition data and portion size, add text for future references

Analysis - Nutrition Dashboard

Nutrition will be split into categories and ingredients will be tagged

Filter Selection
User can specify nutrition entry from a certain time frame or limit to a nutrition type.

Users can add meals from one of three options

Stacked Bar Chart
is provides a visually more accurate comparison for users to know where their nutritions are made of.

A plus button on the top of the page for user quick access

Stacked Bubble Chart
is an interactive visualization of nutrition information to helps user their food composition.

Pizza image will be analyzed by AI to document the ingredients and nutrition value

Stacked Bubble Chart - Zoom
Tapping on a pie chart, users can investigate on a specific food type.

Visual System

Typography

This is Rockwell,
ReMeal’s display font

I choose Rockwell to create a bold and robust identity.
It is also effective for headings and titles.

Karla is ReMeal’s supporting font

I choose Karla, which offers readability and versatility, ensuring clear and accessible information.

Hierarchy

Headline

32px / 100%

Rockwell Bold

Heading 2

22px / 100%

Rockwell Bold

Heading 3

22px / 100%

Karla Bold

Heading 4

18px / 100%

Karla Medium

Heading 5

14px / 100%

Karla Medium

Heading 6

13px / 100%

Karla Bold

Body

16px / 100%

Karla Medium

CTA Button

20px / 100%

Karla Extra Bold

Identity Colors

Interface Component Color

5.12

#50817B

7.44

7BA79F

12.37

BBDFD5

11.34

E8CF37

9.41

3A446E

I choose this color palette that combines earthy, natural tones to evoke a sense of balance, vitality, and trust.

Supporting Colors

Data Visualization Color

I choose colors derived from good groups to make color code more intuitive for the users.

Neutral Color

What Would I do differently?

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Navigation/Information Architecture:

Navigation page could examined: Maybe the "Community" page go after the "Goal" page in the navigation bar? Should I use "Analysis" or "Dashboard"? Next time, I would bring in second/third/more opinions as soon as possible to help me recognize terminology or design expressions I took for granted, especially regarding information architecture.

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Data Visualization

I would start with understanding how to categorize nutrition data, making it more align with the official guides. I also noticed that a nutrition dashboard would be ultimately complicated over a period of time, and each ingredients provide more than one nutrition, making the data more intertwined. This would create more requirements when designing for this the data visualization.

Further Development

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Information Architecture Review

Take a step back to review the information architecture. Evaluate whether the current structure effectively serves the users' needs and whether any adjustments are necessary based on user feedback or industry standards.

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Research Official Guidelines

Dive into official guidelines related to nutrition data categorization. Ensure product aligns with these guidelines to provide accurate and relevant information to users.