Check feasibility while the idea is still cheap.
Bring engineering into the conversation before a feature becomes an expectation.
Onahn Michelle / H&N Research
Meals, vitals, and a voice assistant in one iOS app. I was the sole product designer, from the first structure to the App Store.
See the shipped app
Bring meal logging, health metrics, and food scanning into one useful routine.
People managing a kidney condition and health-conscious professionals.
Research, information architecture, and the interface, with a shared system for engineering to build on.
A decision that changed the scope
Edit scanned ingredients to match a customized meal.
The team couldn’t technically support full ingredient editing.
Remove editing and design around what we could build.
The tradeoff: less flexibility for customized meals.
Explore the actual interface and the choices behind it.
Daily dashboard
Daily progress, recent metrics, and insights share one starting point. The dashboard brings the product’s different jobs into the same view.
A shared map of the product’s scope, before design and engineering moved into screens.
The map also records microphone permissions, scan retries, empty states, and failed payments. Those states belong in the design conversation before implementation.
Research included interviews and two personas, with outreach through Reddit and LinkedIn. Those activities helped frame who the product was for: people managing a kidney condition and health-conscious professionals.
Shared tokens, reusable components, and light and dark themes. A common language for design and engineering, with fewer decisions to repeat.
Explore the design system
The outcome
A shipped iOS app with paying customers. My contribution spanned the structure, design system, and interface.
View on the App StoreBring engineering into the conversation before a feature becomes an expectation.
Shared tokens made consistency a practical part of the work.
Where does logging feel difficult? What brings people back? How clearly do they understand the insights? These are next questions, not measured outcomes.
I’m happy to get into the details. Fair warning: I care about the small ones.