Creating a daily tracking app will generate a cumbersome user experience for the user where having to constantly key in their progress becomes tedious. To work around this, the app should be representative of a cumulative amount of information that gives an overall rating that shows how much of a carbon footprint the user is making. The user then inserts their own information monthly or whenever they need to. That being said, the Nutrition and Sleep sections of the Health does require users to key in their values on their own accord. But given the nature of being environmentally friendly, tracking the users progress can't necessarily be measured in set definitions. Unlike measuring walking or running based on distance and timing, environmental acts are hard to quantify into simple and appropriate measurements. How do you measure how much energy you save daily? Do people actively count how many bottles of plastic they recycle? Is there a need to recycle daily?
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The World Wide Fund for Nature have created a questionnaire that allows users to get an idea of their carbon footprint. The questions are divided into Food, Home, Travel and Stuff, encompassing the essential activities carried out by most people. At the end users are given a percentage that is compared against the ideal goal everyone should be aiming for.
Therefore rather than to have the user key in arbitrary values, the app could present the user with a series of questions that lets it generate an 'eco rating'. These questions can then be revisited monthly or whenever necessary to help improve the users rating.
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