The market of health and fitness apps is huge, and pregnancy-related apps are one of the most popular categories.
On average, 47% of subscribers using one or more health apps use a pregnancy-related app.
Bellabeat entered the market with a fetal monitor. In 2014, Bellabeat unveiled its cutting-edge collection of three new products for expecting women.
Called Balance, Leaf and Shell, Bellabeat’s new products are aimed at making pregnancy and motherhood a trackable journey.
Balance is a smart scale, Leaf is a smart health tracker and Shell is a smart pregnancy and baby monitor.
All three products are connected to corresponding apps which monitor the activity of the wearable/useable products.
There are similar pregnancy-related apps in the market, though none with an interactive app-and-product feature like Bellabeat.
What makes Bellabeat unique is their aesthetic quality – both with the app as well as the products. The products have been designed to look chic and appealing. So much so that one of the products – the Leaf monitor – can be worn as a bracelet, necklace or brooch.
Bellabeat’s strategy is a good example in how seemingly ‘techie’ products – like health monitoring devices – can be made more appealing to consumers by
(a) engaging them with the product (interactive apps)
(b) implementing innovative product design
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This post is a part of our People’s Insights brief for January-February 2015 - Inspiring Innovations