Thesis II: Week 4 & 5

Prototyping and testing

Liz Wang
1 min readFeb 16, 2021

The last two weeks I’ve focused on creating a prototype to display the daily exercise experience, the backbone of my concept and user testing it with teens. For this first prototype, I kept it very simple and created frames to support a specific scenario.

MVP Prototype 1

User Testing

For this round of testing, I recruited 3 participants, all within my target audience.

General Feedback

  • Understands the psychology and believes it works
  • Drawn to the calendar & mood tracking
  • Like the physical aspect, detachment from phone
  • Mostly use it as a ‘make me feel good’ app

Areas of Improvement

  • Only one would it use it on a daily basis
  • Need more to be comfortable sharing (example or start slow)
  • End of session feels incomplete (add reflection or progress)

Next Steps

  • Iterate on post-checkin experience
  • Strategize balance user goals vs designer goals
  • Design progress and mood tracking

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