For inspiration of what to include in my motivational app I researched a few examples of motivational techniques and found things such as encouragement, recognition, support, feedback and so on are good motivational tools to use on a person. For example, if you encourage someone to do something and support them to do something it shows them that you care and are interested in helping them and so might give them that energy boost to do something, if this doesn’t happen they may feel you don’t care and become discouraged and lack the motivation. Once they have done that specific thing and recognise it they will see that you have taken attention and noticed what they’ve done, you could reward them for their efforts to give them extra motivation which in turn could result in them doing more, also give them feedback to show them what to do next time to show your trying to help them and what they did good or maybe wrong.
I then researched motivational apps and the tools that are used within them to motivate people. In my research I found that a lot of apps include affirmations which is used to encourage the user to feel good about themself which in turn gives them motivation as if your in a bad mood it’s hard to have that motivation. Another feature I found a lot of apps use famous and powerful quotes in their apps, they include quotes that help keep the user driven and focused and also inspired to do whatever it is they’re doing. Something a number of apps include are more lifestyle and health related tools to help people stay motivated, for example some apps have a health tracker which explains how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and diet, and also track their fitness and a place where they can store their workout sessions and results, this is done so the user can feel good about themselves and be motivated to keep on going.
I also found that having an app that has everything you need is quite helpful as it avoids creating stress of having to go to lots of different apps for their different needs, so my aim for my app was to avoid that and create an app that has everything you need to keep motivated and avoid that stress.