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Addressing food waste through socialization
UX Design | Visual Design | Adobe XD
People have a tough time planning their meals which leads to wasted ingredients. Design a solution that promotes better food utilization and educates consumers against misinformation
Being surrounded by college students, we decided that designing for students would help us channel our thoughts and direction
TARGET USERS
• College students living in apartments wanting to cook themselves
• Students who want to cook meals on a budget and are restricted by time
METHODOLOGY
It was crucial to understand the needs of the users to design the best solution to their problem, which meant that relevant research methods were needed to extrapolate the right information
RESEARCH
I helped create scripts for the interviews and facilitated them with participants which informed our design direction
IDEATION
I led the concept generation stage to streamline ideas with team members and formulated the design direction that is used in the final design.
DESIGN
I was the in charge of creating sketches, low and high fidelity mockups that reflected our insights and allowed us to test our designs
Bhavya Sinha
Dean Schrock
9 weeks
After conducting secondary research we moved forward with interviews to gather information regarding the food management habits of users. The interviews informed and streamlined our design direction.
Total Participants: 6
CONSUMERS
FOOD INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
WASTE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS
KNOWLEDGE
users are unaware of the difference between Sell By and Expires By date
users did not pre-plan their meals while buying their groceries
HABITS
users made active efforts to prevent waste by using notes or preparation schedules
admitted to throwing away food due to improper management of ingredients
BEHAVIOR
living in apartments said that they had a Casual or relationship with their neighbor
of participants said they were hesitant in asking their neighbors for ingredients
VISIBILITY
It was imperative that users know what they had in their kitchen and consolidate that stock into an easily understandable interface.
IDEATION
Improve food management strategies to allow for improved utilization of their inventory.
Possible strategies could be assisted through socialization features
The question to answer
How do we promote better food habits to minimize food waste?
BILL SCANNER
Based on the research that we conducted, we focused on logging information pertaining groceries to make users aware of their supply status
AWARENESS GAME
Exposure to management strategies to minimize waste could be provided by educating users through socialization
RECIPE SUGGESTOR
A system that keeps stock of your inventory and suggests recipes, prioritizing ingredients close to their expiration date
Creating sketches and iterating on them allowed us to streamline and visualize our workflow, which helped us transition smoothly into the next phase of the design. We were also able to think of interactions and conduct preliminary testing on the paper prototypes
Based off our sketches we refined our workflow and solidified the feature set to take forth in the high fidelity prototype
We created low-fi prototypes for internal testing and iterated them to finalize features, layouts and UI elements to carry forward into our high fidelity prototype
Aa
San Francisco
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Feel free to take a look at this interactive
prototype to see what we designed
HOME
SCANNER
SORTING PROCESS
FOR YOU
COOKING PROCESS
PANTRY
COMMUNITY
INGREDIENT
DETAILS
RECIPE
DETAILS