For our food-based project, we ideated based on our various concerns around food.
NOTES:
Medical
Helps with food allergies
What to avoid
Lactose intolerant
Read packages/food and lets you know
Resturants
Resturants - show what ingredients are
App that scans a menu
Like to eat out = want to do for cheap
Group community rate
Certain days of the week this place/meal ½ off
Know when cheap food is good/portion
Sharing Food
Students who have to cook own food
shopping for one person food going bad
easier to feed one or more person
Dinner party
Hate buying and having it go bad
Similar diets
Neighborhood food sharing
Food waste - environmental
France - will create meals that are about to go bad and sell
Give and take - not only take
discounted prices
Barter system
points
Created a meal or you have leftovers
more sense of selling it
compensating those who cook it
Post listing…
trade
money
free
I have leftovers…
After taking notes, we all seemed to have the most concerns around food waste as college students cooking for themselves. Our final app idea was to create an app that would allow college students to share extra ingredients, meals, or leftovers with other students. Our solution can help students save money and save the planet by reducing food waste.
We outlined our ideas and pages for the app as follows:
Final Point of View / Design Solution
Point of View
Helping with food waste and sharing…
It’s not easy to cook for one person
Hard to buy in-serving ingredients
Expensive to eat out (especially with a food intolerance)
Design
App “Neighborhood Fridge”
Pages:
Launch Page
Feed:
Photo
Title
Click for details
Item Details:
Look to adding item criteria
Menu
Food Safety Information
Adding an item:
Title
Type: Meal or Ingredient
Meals - List ingredients, Servings
Ingredient - type, amount, how long it is good until
Transaction or Sharing
Transaction: Free, Payment, Trade
Sharing: Add description of details
Storage Type
Refrigerated, Frozen, Fresh, Non-perishables (ingredients only)
Expiration Date
Manually set
All non-perishables or frozens expire 1 week
Give notifications before listing expires