All of us at some time resolved to exercise more, eat healthy and lose weight. But the spirits that we start our resolutions slowly dies down over time and we give up unless we have someone guiding us till we have achieved what we started out to do. Today, we have apps to thank for, that track our movement, count the number of steps, monitor our breathing rate, help us exercise and do multiple analysis that help motivate us.
Setting a goal and following it has become easier and considering, reaching a goal gives you points or credits is an added encouragement. These apps have a clear structure that define different parameters that people want to track and work on.
The above image is from Fitbit mobile dashboard. The representation influences the user as the measure for each unit of data is clear-cut. It shows the analysis for the day, summarize the overall performance, highlights the best you have done so far and guides to the target you want to reach. This improves the user’s performance as it drives them to push hard as they can continuously monitor and see themselves closer to the goal.
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