The GAPS Place
An app for connection, learning, and healing
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Introduction

The GAPS diet is a nutritional protocol designed to heal the body from the inside out. While the main focus of the diet is food, it also outlines a full lifestyle overhaul, focusing on gut health, and consequentially, systematic health. I wanted to make a way for people to connect and get support wherever they were at on their health journey. This app focuses on community building and resource sharing to make a complicated diet easier for people.

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Challenge
Diets are hard to do alone, however many people are in that situation. I started the GAPS diet with the support of friends, and I wanted to create a way for others to experience the community that I had.
Research

Over 60% of survey participants did not have as much community as they wanted, and 25% said community was the area they needed the most support in.

About 70% said accurate resources were their biggest need. A main pain point was that information was hard to find.

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Conclusion
Designing this app from scratch made interviews and research a key piece of the design process. Getting to hear people's experiences and then creating a solution was one of my favorite parts of this project. This was a dream project for me to get to design, and it is one I hope to fully build out someday.
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