Meal planning software
2023
Project Details
• Timeline - March 2023 - June 2023 (12 weeks)
• Group project of 3 students
• Group project of 3 students
My role
• Design Research
• UX/UI Design
• UX/UI Design
Problem
How to encourage people to plan meals effectively so food does not go to waste?
We noticed that the problem of food waste is really common nowadays. Everyone has faced a difficulty of not having any idea what to cook for dinner meanwhile throwing away ingredients which were laying in the fridge for last few days. Despite the availability of numerous meal planning and grocery shopping apps, we did not find any which would solve this problem
The solution
We designed an application, which integrates advanced recipe search, grocery shopping and meals planning
We designed an application, which integrates advanced recipe search, grocery shopping and meals planning
Main functions
Competitive Analysis
After we analysed 4 popular meal planning applications, we came to a conclusion, that almost none of them combined at the same time features of recipe search, grocery and meal planning
User interviews
We conducted interviews with 12 people and here are some main questions we asked them:
1. Do you plan your grocery shopping? If yes, in which way?
2. Describe how your grocery shopping process looks like? Which problems you face?
3. How often do you throw away food? Why does it happen?
4. Describe the methods of not wasting food?
5. How do you look for new recipes? Which problems you may have during it?
6. Do you plan your meals? If yes, in which way?
We conducted interviews with 12 people and here are some main questions we asked them:
1. Do you plan your grocery shopping? If yes, in which way?
2. Describe how your grocery shopping process looks like? Which problems you face?
3. How often do you throw away food? Why does it happen?
4. Describe the methods of not wasting food?
5. How do you look for new recipes? Which problems you may have during it?
6. Do you plan your meals? If yes, in which way?
We realised that the food waste might be caused not only by non efficient grocery and meal planning, but also by the lack of ideas how to use left-over ingredients after cooking a certain dish
Persona
Value Proposition Canvas
Generating ideas
After the research phase, we started the process of generating ideas. We used the Crazy 8's method, and after group voting, we defined main features we want to integrate to our application.
The next step was sketching mock-ups of our future application on paper
Prototyping and usability testing
We have designed mid-fidelity prototypes using Figma and conducted usability testing with five people.
After that we have made some changes in the design of application
3 major improvements after testing
Final project