Australia
This Application was actually recommended from the Australian government website… and being a US government official application… I have to say, whoever got the grant for this doesn’t deserve the endorsement in the future. A first year undergraduate in any health field could put together a better program. The whole process feels exhausting with limit tailoring at all. Do you think people don’t know they aren’t eating foods enough? You need to tell them how much they are and should be. Give specific results and recommendations. This information has been available for decades. How can you get this so wrong so easily. And I get the idea of gamification being great for personal goals and healthcare… but you actually have to apply the concept properly. There’s nothing rewarding about this, especially for people that elect to use it to learn who are overwhelmed and time poor (everyone!). Badges aren’t rewards. Even children don’t perform for token boards so why would adults? The rewards have to be meaningful and personal to the individual and their goals they’re working on. Like why not partner with a food delivery company that gives discounts on their meal kits, or grocery stores that provide vouchers for people that are actively working to achieve a healthier lifestyle? The whole point about harping on about individual health and wellness is the both the extreme cost of emergency adverse health events in the health sector, as well as the increased years of productivity. This entire program seems like punishment. Why design an application that creates more effort than value for citizens by giving them meaningless, pointless badges and wastes more of their very limited time by making them complete extremely basic quizzes that have no meaningful results… You could have an outcome based measurement tool integrated into this app and use it for public health research. The results don’t even talk about serving size, portions per day. You can’t make SMART goals from something that vague. Stop investing in corporate billionaires who don’t give a rats about anything other than their own wallets and start realising the value of investing in people.
