fridge

FRIDGE

Our project is called Fridge and it allows for users to track grocery items along with be presented with recipes. The problem we are trying to solve is that most people forget what grocery items they have and what recipes they can make with those items. Ultimately we want to help save them time from figuring what meals to cook and what grocery items are about to expire soon. Fridge application plans to help with this problem and help users waste less food by tracking all kinds of data on their grocery items. Fridge application tracks expiration dates, quantity of each item, price for budgeting, and also presents different kinds of recipes.

UX Team Members

• Karandeep -
  • added the brief introduction and problem statement about our project
  • uploaded and contributed to the whole personas and scenarios page
  • Personas and scenarios
  • Competitive analysis and heuristic evaluation
  • Wireframes
  • Report
  • Prototypes
  • User testing and data gathering
• Tamanna Haider -
  • Sketches and diagrams
  • Personas and scenorios
  • Competitive analysis and heuristic evaluation
  • Wireframes
  • Report
  • Prototypes
  • User testing and data gathering

User-Centered Design Artifacts

• Personas and Scenarios
• Sketches and Diagrams
• Wireframes
• Prototype

Phase I: Analyzing Users, Competitors, and Initial Designs

Executive Summary

• Competitive analysis of competitors’ product allowed us to discover that information on each food item is limited to only the expiration date and quantity. We can allow for each food item to store much more information such as calories and ingredients. We also found that Free accounts are heavily restricted in what can be accomplished and there is no widely used competitor on a web-based platform.
• Heuristic evaluation of competitor found designs to be similar, but not exactly minimal as some tabs/pages have multiple purposes. There is opportunity to allow for user freedom and control.
• Personas and Scenarios reveal the need to focus on the core functionality, allow for budgeting/tracking expenses, remind users of soon-to-expire-foods, and recipes that are most relevant to the grocery items they have
• Sketches and Diagrams allowed for initial visuals of the interface with a focus on minimal design and effectively navigating core content

Full phase I report

Phase II: Refining interaction and designing wireframes

Executive Summary

• From our cognitive walkthrough, we discovered that our findings suggest medium to high fidelity design with improvements in user feedback. We also uncovered the need to enhance the budgeting and spending of grocery items
• From our informal user feedback, we found users want the application to be as automated and seamless as possible. Users want a way to add/subtract quantities of each food item and be notified of grocery items that are expiring soon or expired foods. Along with this, make the process of adding grocery items with their relevant information as effortless as possible.
• Our findings suggest advancements to our wireframes by making changes to existing boards and adding more to have more accurate prototypes for our final product. Some scenarios were more easily accomplished than others.

Full phase II report

Phase III: Prototypes and User Testing

Executive Summary

• From our user testing, we discovered none of our participants are keeping track of their groceries digitally and that they expect it to be easier to do so digitally. They also seem to want to have an app for their phone along with the web application.
• We also discovered that we need to redesign the “add item” button to be bigger and more noticeable to the user
• All tasks from our participants have reported a score of 4 or 5 indicating that our project is useable, easy to understand, and useful.
• Participants described that they liked the design and layout of the web application and the status of each food item such as good, expired, and warning. They liked the notifications feature as well.
• All participants also referred not to add an image when adding a food item to the table, they wanted adding an image to each food item to be optional and in the current state, it is required.
• Overall, participants were very pleased with our web application and would consider using it. To get more accurate results, user tests would need to have a larger group of more diverse individuals.

Full phase III report