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Step-By-Step Guide to Designing
Effective Wellness Apps
Sandy Ng and Lucia Vuong
6.1 Introduction
Leveraging on the rise of consumer usage of mobile application technology, the health-
care industry currently has more than 97,000 health-related apps listed on 62 full cata-
logue app stores (Research2guidance 2013). The projected revenue of these apps is to
reach $26 billion, with 3.4 billion people would have access and 50% would have down-
loaded these apps by 2017 (Mobihealthnews 2013). Clearly, the health-related app market
is on an upward trajectory, transforming the way we consume health-related services,
and, importantly, has the potentia ...