🚨 Problem Statement & Project Goal

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Problem Statement

How to reduce food waste for high school graduates who do not have food storing and cooking knowledge?

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Project Goals

• Reduce food waste
• Educating high school graduates for food waste and food storage knowledge
• Allow users to build independency for cooking
• Track their grocery/ingredients database
• Provide meal plan based on food database </aside>

📝 Project Summary

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My Role and Contributions

• Conduct usability assessment using heuristic evaluation to evaluate the original prototypes and its usability.
• Clarify main pages needed and the purposes they serve.
• Significantly cut down unnecessary pages by creating interactive components that can be used within each individual pages.
• Create and refine high-fidelity prototypes based on usability assessment result and project goal.
• Create design system and components to ensure design consistency across screens. </aside>

Project Process

❓ Stage 1: Background Research & User Survey

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Avoidable Food Waste

In Canada, over 50 million tonnes of food are wasted annually, 60% of this waste being Avoidable.

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Almost 100% Don’t Track Groceries

About 150 university students surveyed, claim to not track their groceries due to it’s inconvenience, and wastage of time

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Household Contributions

Globally, households are responsible for 61% of food wastes*.*

Average Canadian Household produce 79 kilograms of food waste, equivalent to $1300.

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65% Report Large Food Waste

About 100 students claim to be wasting 40-60% of the food they purchased due to their lack of knowledge in recipes and expiry dates.

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👥 Stage 2: Target Audience & Key Features

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Target Audience

• Newly Independent Students

  High school graduates learning to manage groceries and cooking on their own.

• University & College Students

  Young adults struggling with food storage, meal planning, and waste reduction.

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Smart Grocery Tracking

Users can log groceries manually or through barcode/receipt scanning to monitor food usage and expiration dates.

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Meal Planning & Suggestions

Provides personalized recipe ideas based on available ingredients, reducing food waste and improving cooking habits.

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Waste & Usage Insight

A statistics page tracks food waste, highlights frequently wasted ingredients, and helps users make better grocery decisions.

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🔍 Stage 3: Usability Assessment — Heuristic and Expert Evaluation

✍🏻 Stage 4: Existing Screens Iterations

🎨  Stage 5: Design System