Design of an innovative digital application to facilitate access to healthy foods in low-income urban settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Under-resourced urban minority communities in the United States are characterized by food environments with low access to healthy foods, high food insecurity, and high rates of diet-related chronic disease. In Baltimore, Maryland, low access to healthy food largely results from a distribution gap between small food sources (retailers) and their suppliers. Digital interventions have the potential to address this gap, while keeping costs low.

Methods

In this paper, we describe the technical (I) front-end design and (II) back-end development process of the Baltimore Urban food Distribution (BUD) application (app). We identify and detail four main phases of the process: (I) information architecture; (II) low and high-fidelity wireframes; (III) prototype; and (IV) back

SUBMITTER: Lewis EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10839509 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature