USER EXPERIENCE IN FITNESS JOURNEY – GOOGLE FIT UX REVIEW
“The cheerful mind perseveres, and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.” – Swami Vivekananda. In the contemporary era, health education and awareness have become the global concern. Especially, after the pandemic people have raised their interest and efforts towards maintaining a balanced physical as well as mental wellbeing.
Throughout the period and post-pandemic, the incline towards fitness has remarkably heightened. The online applications focusing on physical and mental fitness have supported and encouraged people in their fitness journey to an astonishing level. When asked by people, the majority of them maintained their health through the guidance offered by their applications.
To achieve tremendous user experience, developers need to tap on a thin line between being too basic and customizing the experience. Health issues and fitness journeys are more about personalizing than standard, we are all unique, with different metabolisms, body structures and sizes, and lifestyles. All the factors alter our body type, and in demand to be fit, we need to have individualized workout routines and diets.
Google Fit is an application you see on top when you start seeking your fitness journey through digital. People have tremendously followed and depended on this application for their fitness journey ever since the epidemic.
Here is a user experience review about Google Fit and how fitness enthusiasts perceive it.
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GOOGLE FIT UI/UX – AN IDEAL FOR FITNESS OR NOT?
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. “To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” -William Londen.
You set goals, you create visions, you manage to gather strength and efforts, but how about a roadmap to the journey? Your fitness goals are your destination, and your journey needs to be supported and guided. Google Fit Application helps you keep track of your milestones, minor as well as major achievements and progress.
• Google Fit worked together with the World Health Organization (WHO) to create Heart Points, an activity goal based on WHO’s global suggestions and exhibited to influence health. Movements that make your heart pumping faster give immense fitness advantages for your heart and mind. You will receive one heart point for every minute of moderate intense activity.
It was a great initiative by Google Fit to encourage and motivate people to join the application and start their fitness routine. It requires just 30-minutes of brisk walking five days a week to reach WHO’s mentioned amount of physical movement proven to decrease the probability of heart disease, enhance sleep and improve whole mental well-being.
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• Every person is unique and so is their health, Goggle Fit gets an extra point for aiding and providing service that is especially for a particular person keeping their requirements and conditions concerned. “Coaching that fits you” says Google Fit. Google Fit also gets it easy to examine your improvement and track your activity perfectly from your phone or smartwatch. You can accomplish your fitness targets through customised training and improvement tips based on your health and activity history.
• Google says, “However you move, make it count”. From spinning to wandering, any action that makes you move makes an impact on your health. Google Fit performs with many other apps and health devices to give its users credit for all their moves and provide a complete view of their health.
• Valuable user experience rotates around users being able to instantly select your app and use it to get a specific difficulty out of the way. Fitness apps need to be personal, they need to ask the right queries and they need to offer an easy and quick way of responding, so that it may restructure its services for you. With beginning Goggle Fit asks you to register your account with basic questions like, age, gender, weight and height. Moving forward, it asks to select a target you need on a daily basis and certain medical questions.
• Google Fit provides you with in-depth information about its feature and pretty much explains your may arise queries prior. It also offers a feature to track your sleep schedule. The user interface is in dark mode, with easy call to actions and great navigations. The theme and design are an advantage to user experience. It has different structures for heart rate, steps, heart points, weight track and blood pressure trying to give you a valuable insight to your health.
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• Lastly, three additional features that the application adds to its user experience is maintaining a journal that allows you to keep a personal record, provide you a YouTube playlist to encourage your workout fun and to offer information recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
WRAP UP
Google Fit has pretty much covered physical fitness. It is known to offer a great user experience, some of the suggestions from our end are to include mental well-being and diet and nutrition to the application. Users tend to select an application that covers completely all the aspects of fitness journey. Let us know your opinion, suggestion and what helped you with your fitness journey.
