Week 8

Based on feedback from my mentor in week 8, I will narrow down my target users to ensure that this design can be executed successfully. Since many places are blocked off during this particular time, the target users are focused on classmates, peers, friends, etc. who are sharing a room with others. This would help me gather information and conduct user interviews and user testing in a short period of time, as it might be a bit difficult for me to walk around and ask their family members, especially those who work outside the home. In addition, my own experience and situation could be useful information for developing the initial prototype.

What have done

• Contextual inquiry and questionnaire (Research)
• Idea generation about the application features
• Paper prototype

What needs to be done before next standup

• Unfunctional/functional prototype
• Further research about target users (narrowing the groups)
• User testing of the interim prototype

Week 10

Based on the feedback and results from the interviews, the app is targeted at people who live alone or in a shared house/apartment. One of the main reasons for this is that after leaving home, they, especially respondents living with their peers, reported that they paid little attention to food preservation among themselves. More often than not, everyone living together forgot about the food they bought. In addition to this, I identified the features I wanted to include in the application and drew up a rough prototype, due to time constraints I needed to clarify what features the final prototype needed to include and how the user would be able to evaluate them.

What haven‘t been done and why

• I haven't started working on a functional prototype yet because of a lack of user testing. I need to conduct a TAM to test users' attitudes towards a brand new technology.