How might we help people manage their ingredients and enjoy cooking with the least of food waste?
I identified a few difficulties related to managing ingredients:
I have been noticing that I produce a lot of food waste, including ingredients that were untouched. Sometimes I would even forget that I have those ingredients inside my fridge. So I started to think of an app that would help reduce these food wastes and manage ingredients in the fridge more efficiently.
I had a teammate to join this journey and we decided to go through design sprint process for this.
It started with the sprint approach and a discussion of topic. There were the general idea of creating a platform for cooking. We collected the individual thoughts to form the general, but more specific idea of platform’s unique feature, which provide function that people need.
For example; it will be helpful to modern people who are busy if it is possible to check remotely the ingredients what they have.
To construct the main idea and concerns of the topic, we answered the various questions related with our brief goal.
We set up the main feature and product value, considering our long-term goals and the plausible user responses.
Product Value:
Main Feature:
To make sure that our project followed human centred design approach, we set the plausible users and did interviews and research. During the process, there were revealed few of core problems and needs to manage kitchen, especially ingredients.
In order to have a common understanding of the long-term goals of our application, we organised application’s feature, while added more functions and reflected plausible users needs through targeting user interviews.
To figure out and narrow down to the viable business model, we conduct ‘Assumption Mapping’ and ‘Business model canvas’ based on the response form interviewers and our research. We born 3 questions in mind - ‘What do people desire?’, ‘What is technically and organisationally feasible?’, ‘What is financially viable?’- during the process.
To get inspiration from other apps, we tried to find apps with the features that we wanted to have. More specifically, we wanted a way to include pre-setting progress, a way to input data; expiry date and various recipes feasibility.
We conducted Crazy 8’s of plausible feature which is to gather useful ideas with a quick drawing.
After reviewing Crazy 8’s, ‘Ingredients storage’ and ‘recipe’ part is selected the main feature and asked ourselves ‘What could be another good way of doing this?’.
Based on the previous discussions and sketches, we categorized our possible functions to the main features and created information architecture. Also, we started from refining our ideas from the sketches and created low-fidelity wireframes.
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We decided to come up with hight-fidelity prototype. We worked with Framer X, which was quite challenging because it wasn’t the fastest prototyping tool for design sprint, but we stayed focused and tried to get used to the tool more. We also tried to come up with as many interfaces as possible to properly setup the usability test.
On the last day of the design sprint, we conducted a usability on our prototype. We planned out on what we wanted to test with the users and seeked for the participants. We made sure that users can be honest with their feedbacks and took down every comments they gave.
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