FreshHold

Experience Design

Overview

FreshHold is a service that user can keep track of the expiry dates so that they make less food waste.

Challenge

Food waste is a huge problem in the world, and food expiry dates lead to 20% of food waste. To help users keep track the expiry dates, design the service. 

Duration

5Weeks

My Role

Design Direction

Interaction Design

UX Design

User Flow

Team

Gina Park

Emily Tseng

Kumari Pacheco

Zijie Zhou

Ideation

We did brainstorming the space and expand into a problem based market research and user research. 

USER RESEARCH

Interviewed 2 younger generation and 2 older generation to understand their cooking and pantry using habits. 

FINDINGS

  • Majority of interviewees like cooking
  • Both older and younger had trouble finding expiration dates
  • Both older and younger found themselves wasting a lot of food due to forgetfulness

FINAL IDEA

01. Helping people know when things are expired so they can better organize

02. Helping people clean up unnecessary items on a regular basis

03. Helps people determine food or fresh produce are in a bad shape or not

04. Helping people know when thngs are expired so they can better organize

How might we help people determine when food items are expired so they can better organize their fridge and pantry space?

Bridging problem to solution

01. PERSONA

Based on user research and ideation, we created person based on the problems we found and focus on.

Based on user research and ideation, dosa

02. SOLUTION BRAINSTORMING

Brainstormed all ideas about how to keep track of expiry dates to be more intuitive within a user-centered experience. At this stage, we open to all devices for our possible solution. After deciding on our final deliver, I structured the features and draft version of user flow specifically to simplify the user’s interaction with the product.

03. STORYBOARD

After I created a draft version of the user flow we discuss and simulate the flow chart. Based on our takeaways from discussion and simulation, we specify the features and created a storyboard.

Solution

Fresh Hold contains a paper kit, camera, and app that are user can interact with.

Paper kit is for freshness guide book and it contains PH tester, nitrate & nitrite tester which is hard to test with app. 

Camera ; we inspired by Stockwell, we believe the item detection technique could be a powerful tool that keeps track of items. Refrigerator and pantry are enclosed spaces mostly without outlets. Through Far-field (radiative) techniques by microwave, the cameras are able to  be charged without physical charging cable.

With the phone, user can find the items in their pantry easily, show recipe with expiring  items,  and they can test freshness.

UI Design

Style Guide

Task Flow

01. INSTALLATION

02. STORING FOOD

03. BROWSING FOOD

Key Features

Calendar
– Keep track of the expiration date of food
– Shows when the food is added
– Easier to browse food by date
Notification
– Sends notifications when a food item is close to its best by date and expiration date
Recipes
– Discover recipes with the food items you have
– Giving users inspirations for the food that is close to its expiration date
Scan
– Scan barcode to view product name and information
– App has already scanned expiration date so users don’t have to look for it
Freshness Test
– Every time user registers a new item, the system will provide a guide for freshness testing through the app

PAPER KIT

Demo Video

ADVANTAGE

Competitive Advantage

01. Wireless cameras determining where food items are located
02. Taking picture not really solve the problem since there are too much things inside of the pantry
03. update the status of the items to avoid the accidentally location change
04. Way of testing freshness of food
05. Gives recipe ideas for what users can make with the ingredients that are about to expire

Future Plan

Moving forward, we would also address…

01. When users need to buy extra ingredient based on a recipe, they can directly and easily order the ingredient
02. If users want to keep some specific product in their pantry or refrigerator regularly, they can automatically reorder
03. Users can also pre-order for next delivery