Fit Survivor

Designed for a closed circle user community from Rutgers University, the Fit Survivor fitness app was developed to help teenage cancer survivors regain a healthy life style and social life.

Crafting an easy to use and entertaining mobile application was one of the main design aspects when developing Fit Survivor.

The main challenge was to design the interface in a short 2 weeks span and have it ready for production in 1 months time after reviewing with the client and update accordingly.

Core functionality & challenges

The core functionality of the mobile application was the Fitbit connectivity and data transfer where the smart watch wearer can review the daily activity and also share it with their group of friends. The main challenge the team had when implementing the application was the slow data visualisation from Fitbit watch to our interface. This was fixed by eliminating custom UI elements as much as possible and also switching from Java library to the Android one.

Social features and gamification

Since the application was built for teenagers, the UI had to be fun and entertaining to keep the users active and also to reach their daily/weekly goals. Implementing a digital reward system was on of the ideas we had to improve the usage time the application. Each workout completed by the users and each achieved goal was awarded with a custom badge. The badge would be shared on social media and among other internal app users.

Other features included:

• internal social messaging
• workout and activity sharing
• predefined workouts with difficulty selection
• custom workout creation
• badges for each completed workout
• nutrition tips

Responsibilities

My main responsibilities while designing the FitSurvivor application were:

• Small competitive research of other similar applications.
• Research on the digital reward system (gamification).
• Collaborating closely with development team and test the implementation on various phone screens.
• Creating wireframes, the visual design and a functional prototype that was presented to the owners.
• Designing the reward system and creation of custom badges.
• Logo and color library design.
• Bi-weekly customer meetings presenting the design and receiving feedback.

Short animation presenting working application in the hands of users.