about
Sodium Tracker is a system including products and an app to track users' daily sodium intake easily.
According to WHO, we take too much sodium everyday, so that we call for a low sodium healthy diet. With Sodium Tracker, user can easily calculate their daily sodium intake by simple interactions with some devices and an app.
year created
2016
font used
San Francisco
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BACKGROUND
Food is very important to mankind. There are 5 basic tastes of food, which brings us the daily energy and nutrition required to keep us healthy, and brings pleasure.
Saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt is primarily composed of sodium chloride (NaCl), which could make food tastier. Sodium is also an essential element for all animals and some plants.
In fact, according to WHO, most people consume too much salt. There are some diseases caused by high sodium consumption, which is really unhealthy.
① data sources: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs393/en/
It is vitally important for us to control sodium intake properly.
problem statement
There is no ideal way to track and control sodium daily intake, especially for ones who need low sodium diet.
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RESEARCH
interview
In order to understand the needs of people for the control of sodium, I interviewed some targeted people. The results show that there is a need to control sodium intake, but the current approach is often cumbersome and unpleasant.
sodium source
daily sodium need
methods to track sodium intake
persona
To design for a person in need of tracking sodium daily, I made a persona who's diet is based on eating out, cooking home and snacks.
mind map
After some ideation, the best solution I can find is to use devices such as snack jars, cruets to track the usage of sodium, together with data of the food nutrition from internet. At the same time we can use an APP to get nutrition facts about snacks we buy in groceries and food we pay in restaurants, which need a system of food data provided by food retailers. and the app will calculate and analyse our daily sodium intake.
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DESIGN PROCESS
devices part
app part
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RESULTS
devices part
app part
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