Inshape allows you to control your weight using a smartphone and a bluetooth scale. User can easilly update his/her information on the app and get the right calculation for BMI (Body Mass Index) and FAT percentage, what is important for his/her body’s evaluation. If the app is set and connected to a bluetooth scale, weight can be updated automaticaly.
When user starts to use this app, he/she needs to define a goal weight, so the app will help the user to reach that goal. User can see the history graph based on his/her weights during a timeframe. It helps to get motivation. User can easily create an account with Facebook Connect. Then, data like age, email and language will automatically be imported. With this app, users can also control food they are eating and track exercise to control kcal.
USER
This app was designed having in mind obese people that must to control their weight. Also, obese people need to control what food they are eating and how much exercise they are doing to burn fat.

The Story Behind

During the time I was acting as independent design consultant, Nokia Institute of Technology (iNdT) asked me to come up with a concept for a Weight Control. This was an interesting exercise to connect phones to scales and update data automatically.

_Design Proposal _Marianne Abreu
_Briefing _Patrícia Montenegro, iNdT