Understanding User Experience of Diet Applications with Design Strategies and Features for Health Behavior Change

Abstract

With increase in people’s attention to health, various mobile applications for healthy diet have been rapidly developed. The applications use their own design strategies to help users lose weight effectively. While the importance of various strategies to change health behavior has been discussed, little work exists on how these strategies and their design features are applied to mobile applications on the market and what user experience they are providing. This study highlighted how the key features of diet applications affect user experience in terms of service design strategies.