Table 3. Suggestion of BCS features.
| No. | Themes | Behavior Change Strategy | App Feature/ Aspect of Design |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Instilling Self-Awareness | • Provide information about behavioral health links. • Provide information on consequences. • Provide feedback on performance |
• Daily/weekly/monthly summaries of performance • Health tips or articles on the dangers or benefits of consuming too much or too little of certain foods. |
| 2. | Closed Online Group Support | • Provide information about others’ approval • Provide opportunities for social comparison |
• Leaderboard • Forums • Link to share the diet app with friends. |
| 3. | Shaping Knowledge | • Provide instruction | • Recipes and articles on how to prepare healthy meals. • Health tips on how to incorporate more of certain food into one’s diet. |
| 4. | Personalization | • Prompt specific goal setting • Set graded tasks • Prompt practice |
• Provide suggestions for goals and tasks which users may choose (e.g., A range of weight that users may safely lose or gain in one month). • Suggest new goals based on users’ progress (e.g., milestones and badges) • Allowing users to enable or disable reminders, notifications, and certain features (i.e., Privacy settings, mental health reminders). |
| 5. | User-Friendly Design | *This theme does not correlate with any BCS in particular but is still an important aspect of design to engage with diet app users. | • Simple but attractive colorway. • Clear illustrations (e.g., Graphs and diagrams) which are easy to understand. |