Semester 2, Week 9

User testing has ended and I now have some great feedback about our app!

Most of it was really positive with lots of people saying they'd love to use an app like this. Using green, yellow, and red as our colors to signify go, slow, and woah got a lot of positive reactions since there was almost no need to explain what the colors signified. The simple design and display of information was also well received. Everyone really liked that unless you wanted more information the app would only provide you with whether or not the food was healthy enough to eat. And having two different buttons, one for nutritional information and one for tips also got great comments as it gave the users more control of what they would like to see.

With the good, however, came the bad. Some people believed that our labels for foods didn't match their nutritional value. As mentioned in my last blog post one of the users felt that oatmeal being labeled as 'slow' was inaccurate and that it should be labeled 'go'. Others suggested that we should rethink our equation based on the category of food. Someone else mentioned that we should also consider the ingredients as this might change the go, slow, woah label of the menu item.

Another comment, neither good nor bad, was that some of the foods listed were unneeded and could be deleted from the app. Most of these foods were part of the 'sides' category. Also of the five restaurants that Jorge added to the application only a few were showing up. For example I was never able to find Subway!

All in all, I would say the app is a success and our idea is a hit! I wish I could work on it longer I feel like this has great potential to be an amazing, successful, and useful application.