Prototype
Lettuce
Our Team
Alex Carriles
Andy Martinez
Nathan Ryan
Sarah Comella
My Role
Project Manager
UX Researcher
UX Designer
Timeframe
3 weeks
Problem
Adults are struggling to create and commit to meal plans, which leads to food waste within their household.
Solution
A mobile app to help people meal plan, easily create grocery lists, and stay motivated to commit to their plan.
Research
Objective
We want to understand a person’s cooking and eating habits, and the various factors that may lead to food waste.
Sample Size
A survey of 46 individuals, and
10 one-on-one interviews
User Insight
Adults need more effective and engaging ways to prepare and stick to meal plans, because impromptu grocery shopping and not committing to eating what was bought leads to food waste.
User Persona
Meet Kris
Key Takeaways
People were aware that food waste was happening
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The biggest factor contributing to in-home food waste was poor meal planning
A little less than half of the users reported they wanted to use an app related to food waste
Competitive Analysis
*Feature: Allergy selection
*Feature: Pantry inventory
*Purpose: centered around dieting
Brainstorming
Potential features
Wishlist items
Out of the box ideas
Feature Prioritization
Low complexity, high impact features to bring forward into our design
Prioritization Matrix
Prototyping
Lofi Prototype
Postmortem
Kris loved the app but wanted more control
So we refined it to more easily view and edit meal plans
Hifi Prototype
Going into this project, we initially wanted to create a community cooking app that allowed neighbors to share their ingredients in order to eliminate having to buy large portions of ingredients for small portion cooking. We had already started with a solution without understanding the problem we were trying to solve.
It was through discovering the problem that we realized we aren't trying to create convenient cooking, we are trying to solve food waste.
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Upon making this early discovery, we shifted our focus and crafted an app that solved the problem we didn't know we had in a fun and exciting way.
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Additional features for future iterations include:
• Pantry Inventory
• Enhance achievements page with growing garden concept