Sneak Peek (Part 3)
This will be the last sneak peek we give before taking the new website design live. Currently, a handful of lucky users are testing out the new interface and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
We have already taken a look at improvements to the Workouts section and various other social improvements. This time we will look at some of the changes being made to the Nutrition section of Gyminee.
One of the biggest changes being made to the Nutrition section is open editing. Many users send error reports about foods being inaccurate, and we want them to be able to quickly and easily fix any errors they find. One of our favorite things about Gyminee is the great community of people that use it, and we want to give the community the ability to make Gyminee better. (If anyone is worried about other users miss-editing foods you have created, then don't worry. We allow you to turn off open editing for your foods.)
The new Nutrition Log is quite different from the current one. The biggest change in functionality is that you can now view other users' logs. This makes it much easier to keep an eye on your GymBuddies and see whether they are just eating ice cream for every meal. Another new feature is the Calorie Breakdown chart. It's great to be able to see at a glance where your calories are coming from.
The new Food Search is much different also. It is no longer integrated into the nutrition log, but is now it's own full-featured page. The new Advanced Options allow you to search just USDA foods, just foods created by other users, just foods you have created, or any combination of the three. Also, many of the changes to the Nutrition section are behind the scene. For example, the new food search returns much more accurate results, the meal planner has received usability improvements, you can upload pictures for foods, and so on.
Just hang in there a little bit longer. It's coming soon!
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Michael said
May 14, 2008 @ 12:57 AM
Well the new version is up now and I think it is worse. you should give the option for people to use the old format. adding food and seeing what was consumed was more convenient the old way.Ian said
May 14, 2008 @ 11:21 AM
I have to agree with @Michael. The new look is giving my mouse wheel a workout. I appreciate the design sensibility, but as a whole I believe the site is visually 125% too big. It's hard to capture key information at a glance. Also, the visual priority on the "My Nutrition Log" seems skewed. I have to scroll past the header, menu, user profile and pie chart just to get to the log. If the log in "My Nutrition Log" is the primary use case then it should be the pages focus. Here is a Greasemonkey script that reorders the page: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26549Andy said
May 14, 2008 @ 12:47 PM
@Michael, @Ian: Thanks for the comments. Overall our feedback has been quite positive from most users, but we will continue to tweak the site based on user comments. User comments are the main reason for the new design in the first place. Please keep providing feedback and we will do our best to keep moving the site forward.Ian said
May 14, 2008 @ 04:17 PM
@Andy: Is there a more appropriate forum for our comments?Janet said
May 15, 2008 @ 05:23 PM
I like the new interface - but I still wish it had two things: 1.) An ability to enter foods by meal or time of day: right now I can only plan foods by meal, but all unplanned foods fall into one big group, so i cannot track carbs, protein etc. by daypart or meal. Which is important for carb counting. My overall carbs are one thing, but the distribution of them by meal is more important. 2.) I would like to be able to print out daily logs that printout in a nice readable format, so I can show my nutritionist. WOuld also be great to have goals on the same page. If i could see my daily goals alongside food it would be perfect. Then I can see I ate too many carbs but worked oout an extra half hour. A one-pager for the day would be perfect. AS long as the food can be grouped by meal/daypart and also it is readable.Shane said
May 15, 2008 @ 08:19 PM
Skip the locking of food edits and move to a confirmation system, with a flag for review. If people are finding foods that are incorrect, then they are reviewing them. Why not just let a user enter a food, then when other people review it they can flag it as correct or incorrect. Once a couple of other people have verified the content of a food there is very little chance of a typo so little need to edit it. It could be flagged for review or given a "this food may contain inaccuracies" flag if needed. The Daily Plate has an open system and there are a lot of complaints about inaccuracies, but letting a user lock the food (I'm saying it's correct, don't let anyone change it) would be the same as letting a developer quality check their own code. The person who enters the information cannot be the person to verify it's correctness. Never has worked, never will work. I'm with Ian, is there some sort of forum we can discuss these issues on? I'll never keep track of the comments and re-entering my name and email when I am already logged in is annoying.Andy said
May 16, 2008 @ 10:42 AM
The best place to discuss these issues is the Gyminee support page.
@Janet - Your suggestion about meals is noted. We hope to improve that portion of the site moving forward. For printouts you can get a better list of all the foods that you eat on the Fitness Report, but that is a PRO feature. We also plan to keep improving the reporting. Thanks for your comments.
@Shane - We are investigating the best way to handle user editing of foods. This is new for us... we did have it so that no one could edit at all. We will improve over time. Thanks for the suggestion.