Bronze A' Design Award in Digital Product Design Goes to Nomnow AI Calorie Tracker by Meiqi Zhao

The international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Meiqi Zhao for digital product design

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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Nomnow AI Calorie Tracker by Meiqi Zhao, designed for NomNow, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Digital Product Design category. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

About Nomnow AI Calorie Tracker

NomNow is a calorie tracking application for mobile and desktop devices. The application accepts voice, image, and text input, so meals can be logged in the way that suits each situation. Artificial intelligence identifies the food and calculates the nutrition values, which removes manual searching and form filling. The screens include daily calorie intake, a logging page, a calendar of past entries, and a weight change view. NomNow runs on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and aims to make nutrition monitoring simple and easy to sustain.

About Meiqi Zhao

Meiqi Zhao is a product designer and AI product manager working at the intersection of design, emerging technology, and human-centered innovation. Her work focuses on making complex AI systems more usable, accessible, and meaningful in everyday contexts, including health, communication, and creative tools. She has led and contributed to products spanning multimodal AI, voice interfaces, data platforms, and digital consumer experiences.

Award Record

Meiqi Zhao is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

About the A' Digital Product Design Award

The A' Digital Product Design Award is an international competition recognizing top digital product designs by leading brands, designers and agencies worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to digital product designers, user experience designers, user interface designers and interaction designers from all countries. Typical entries include digital products, apps, e-books, virtual reality experiences, interactive websites and digital games. The awarded digital product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/digital-product

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://designers.org/171063
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/171063
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!171063
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/364351
Further Information from the Laureate: https://scarlett-zhao.webflow.io/nomnow

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Nomnow AI Calorie Tracker
Function: AI Calorie Tracker
Category: Digital Product Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software
Colors: White Smoke, Gainsboro, Dark Slate Gray, Yellow Green and Gray
Images: 5
Client: NomNow

The Recognition

Laureate: Meiqi Zhao
Country: United States of America
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2025 - 2026
Design ID: #171063

Design Details

Unique Properties: Tired of tracking calories with tedious manual input? Try NomNow - just snap a photo or use a voice command, and AI does the rest. No more guessing portions or endless scrolling the food list. Powered by AI-driven voice, image, and text recognition, it accurately identifies food and calculates nutrition. With advanced RAG and LLM models, NomNow personalizes tracking, adapts to your habits, and provides smart insights, making healthy eating effortless. Now live on the App Store with 5,000 users.
Inspiration: Manually tracking meals is frustrating - estimating portion sizes, recalling meals, and inputting data takes time. As a calorie-tracking app user, I felt these pain points firsthand. With advances in multimodal AI, AI agents, LLMs, and RAG, I saw the opportunity to redefine calorie tracking. No existing product seamlessly integrates voice, image, and text for effortless nutrition logging, so I built NomNow to make tracking smart, intuitive, and hassle-free.
Research: NomNow is now live on App Store with around 5000 users.
Challenge: Making AI capacities more user-centered and humanized.
Realization and Technology: NomNow leverages multimodal AI, integrating voice, image, and text recognition for seamless calorie tracking. Powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLM), it ensures high-accuracy food recognition and adaptive calorie estimation. AI agents refine user inputs, personalize recommendations, and build a dynamic nutrition database. NomNow transforms nutrition logging with context-aware, intelligent tracking, making it effortless and precise.
Operation and Interaction: Log in / Sign up pages User guidance page In-app purchase page Setting weight loss goals page Home page - calorie intake today Calorie Tracking page - logging via voice / photo / text Calendar page - your calorie intake history Weight change page - focus on your health goal
Project Duration and Location: June 2024 - Present Launched on App Store in December 2024.
Specifications: NomNow is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, offering a seamless experience across Apple devices. The app is optimized for Apple Silicon and supports multimodal AI interaction using voice, image, and text input. It leverages RAG and LLM models for high-precision calorie tracking. The Apple Watch version is currently in development, aiming to provide real-time health insights and a more integrated nutrition tracking experience.
Keywords: Health, Diet, AI, Calorie tracker, LLM, Weight loss, NomNow, Multimodal interaction, AI agents