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RESEARCH
Average waste thrown away /person/year, in France according to ADEME
13kg
+
7kg
Leftovers and "bad looking" fruits and vegetables
Wrapped food with use-by date passed
Evolution of the number of searches on Google in Jan-Feb 2016 compared to the same period in 2015
+54%
How to ripen an avocado?
+39%
How to ripen a
banana?
People forget the use-by dates and consider that as soon as it's passed they should throw it away.
They consider "bad looking" fruits and veg as not good to eat and don't know how to choose them properly.
There is a lack of education regarding recycling. People just don't know how to sort properly and products still don't give much information.
Ethylene is the answer! Some fruits and vegetables keep ripening after the harvest. They produce or are sensitive to ethylene.
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PERSONAS
I would like to eat more diverse fruits and vegetables, but everytime I buy avocados for example, I end up with rotten ones.
David
Sometimes we have 4 times the same thing in the fridge because we don't have time to go shopping all together. We should have a common list but...
Jesus
University Students in Sweden,
Flatmates living in a building full of international students
These 4 young adults are now flatmates, sharing a common kitchen. They like cooking good food, but they are also really busy with studies and sports and don’t have the same schedule. They would like to eat properly and they care about environment. They’ve realized after a some weeks living together that each of them waste quite much food because they forget it in the back of the fridge, and want to change that!
I hate throwing away food, but when the best-before date has passed for 2 weeks... I don't have much choice. Could be better to remember there is the cream in the back of the fridge almost reaching the expiry date.
Tristan
We should be more organized regarding food for sure! We've tried to use a board but it's not really successful...
Justin
Human Ressources Director,
Mother of 3 kids between 4 and 9.
Anna has to be organised, her job is taking a lot of her time as well as her 3 young kids. Her husband also has a busy schedule and rarely helps her with housework, except when he has time to go shopping after work. She likes to escape a bit with doing sports. But even with her active life, she doesn't want to buy ready-prepared dishes and prefer cooking healthy food for her kids.
I usually go shopping once a week, I need to buy food that will last until the next time without rotting, which can be hard for fruits and vegetables. And sometimes my husband goes also during the week, but he never buys the proper things and has no idea on how to choose properly fruits, so the kids never eat them...
Anna
CONCEPT DESCRIPTION
PROTOTYPES: FROM HAND SKETCH TO PIXATE
First Lo-Fi prototypes hand sketched
Rapidly switched to InDesign to create Lo-Fi interactive prototypes to be able to send them to users for testing.
Last Hi-Fi prototypes made with Illustrator and Pixate to be tested on mobile phone with the proper animations.
Icons, position of the menu bar, functions have all evolved thanks the the feedback of testers.
Testing of the third version of interactive prototype (made on InDesign)
FINAL CONCEPT
Logo
Colors and Fonts
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#B1CB89
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#FFC400
Amatic SC
Find more add-ons on the app market
Pick Fruits
and Vegetables
Learn how to choose fruits and vegetables
wisely, get advice on how to preserve
them, speed up their maturation process and test some new recipes.
My Kitchen
Access from everywhere to your
kitchen: check what you have left, get
noticed when some food is getting close to be passed and learn more about the products you have bought.
Scan the bar codes of the products you are buying, get a quick overview of their characteristics and add them to your cart. No more waiting queue at the checkout.
Share
You have bought too much
creme fraiche and won't eat it all
before the expiry date? Put it on the sharing market and let your neighbors use it before it's time to throw it away.
Create easily your shopping list
depending on what you have used and
what you have left in your kitchen. Share the
list with your flatmates to be more efficient, and reduce waste and spendings.
Shopping List
Start Scanning
And More...
UI elements
Product overview: Easy and fast to catch if the product is in your kitchen or on the shopping list
UI elements not only relying on colors, popup to confirm to the user the action has been proceeded
Interactions
Personalize the menu and add more functionalities
Search and access quickly the main functions
Get notified when food is close to expire
MYKS
PERSONNAL PROJECT
People are pushed to eat 5 fruits and vegetables everyday, but most of them have no idea on how to pick, store and use them, especially young adults. I've seen many fridges with rotten kiwis at the bottom, behind all the other food. And a lot ends up wasted, like any other food.
So I thought about Myks (Manage Your Kitchen and Shopping).
"Manage your fridge, learn how to pick fruits and vegetables, and stop wasting! "
Wireframe, Prototyping
User Testing
UX and UI
2 months, Mars-May 2016
Process
Concept
Introducing
Myks*
Myks is here to guide you when buying your groceries. It gives you the possibility to know what you have left in the kitchen at any time, share a shopping list with flatmates and much more. Myks is going to help you reduce your kitchen waste.
* [maɪks] Manage Your Kitchen and Shopping.
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