Week 9: Project Status Update

The purpose of this week's post is to provide a brief status update to the lab group and to those unfamiliar with my project.

The product that I am creating is called EveryBite. It is a meal-scheduling mobile app that allows users to set up a meal plan using the device's interface and then reminds them when to have their meals and provides feedback about their performance. The first stage of the project was planning out what I wanted to include in the app and how I wanted to lay out the user interface. After doing some user testing with paper designs and questioning with my brother who is skilled with mobile apps and people in my dorm, I determined that the current design of having a clock interface on the home menu and tabs to access each of the different activities, such as the coach and viewing the schedule, would be the best design moving forward. At this point in the project, I have started developing a prototype of the app in Android Studio for the Android platform to have the basic functionality of creating and viewing meal plans. Specifically, the functionality I have developed so far includes viewing the currently scheduled meals on a clock interface in the main menu, creating a new schedule, and removing events from a schedule. The next steps of this project include adding the functionality to edit events and cleaning up the interface to begin user testing on a finished prototype of the app.