Tiffany's Guide to Navigating the Fung Fellowship: A Personal (Public) Diary

      Having had the opportunity to analyze various users' experiences with the Apple Watch, this week I take a chance to reflect and sit down with my drawing board to summarize my findings and pick some key points to focus my solution on. As a recap, one of the common complaints that many Apple Watch users who were also avid gym-goers, shared was their confusion over such high health metrics after only an hour of lifting weights. Others compared their hour of weightlifting with a peer who ran for an hour and simply could not understand how their weightlifting session surpassed or was close to the metrics of their peers who were running.      The first part of my ideation process was doodling for 15 minutes on a sheet of paper, which I did in my Good Notes app on my iPad (because everything is digitized nowadays and also because it feels better for the environment at this point). For this first page of doodles, I focused on the user, the product, and the va...

  Image Credits: Flickr     Last week, I had the chance to narrow down my research scope pertaining to the Apple Watch and its reliability. I honed in on opinions and perspectives of various watch-users, some from Reddit, others scoured along other areas from the internet. This week, I work to narrow down on my problem statement by focusing on a priority  "How might we...?" question.     To recap, I initially began my investigation with the question, "Do Apple Watches accurately measure calories burned during workouts aside from cardio?" because I am an avid user of the watch but also wanted to know whether or not my weightlifting sessions were accurately being accounted for. From my independent research, it seems that many users felt that the watch overestimated their calories burned during strength training sessions. The watch itself calculates calories burned based off of heart rate and assumes that the "resting" in between strength training session...