smartfresh
Help busy white-collars
UX design , App UI design, Course work
Record the storage situation and quantity of fruits and vegetables in the fridge
Timely remind them so that they can better arrange their diet
Sept, 2020
Inspiration
Long-term storage of fruits and vegetables in the fridge causes mold
White-collar workers usually have many leftover fruits and vegetables in the fridge, which will generally get rotten and stink.
Moldy foods left in fridge too long
Bloggers share tips for storing food in the fridge during the epidemic
They share how to stock fresh food properly.
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User scenario
The white-collar girl bought lots of fruits and vegetables at the weekend and planned to save them over the next week.
But her busy work made her forget her plan.
When she wanted to eat, she found that the food in the fridge was all spoiled.
Information about white-collar
White-collar working hours
Data Source: 2019,China
Average Overtime Hours Per Week
Weekend Situation
Working Hours Per Day
Working 9 or more hours per day
37.5%
Less than 5 hours of Free Time
60%
White-collar relationship status
2019 white-collar marital status
‘Single economy’
According to singles trend data released by Taobao in 2017,
First proposed by economist Robert McCarthy in the Economist magazine in 2001
One-person cookware
There are over 50 million (30%) single people
Most single young people live in first and second tier cities.
Relevant experts believe China entered the ’fourth wave of singles.’
The popularity of ‘one-person’ small products.
The ‘social degradation and consumption upgrade’ phenomenon among single white-collar consumers
Target users
Have imited space in a big fridge
Mini fridge
/Small fridge
Mainly in big cities
Sharing apartment (74%)
Living alone (26%)
Living Situation
Income：3000¥-15000¥
Working from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
54% population has single-day off weekly
82% population sometimes work overtime
Working Condition
Attitude to Life
Be self-centered
Focus on quality of life
Open to new things
More attention to health
Consumer Attitudes
Rational shopping
Focus on experience and service
Willing to share things with others
Single white-collar life profile
White-collar workers’ attitude towards fruit
Comments on social media
About work
Proportion of white-collars who love to eat fruit
About fruit
White-collar workers’ attitude towards fruit
29%
96%
55%
67%
68%
Female
Single male
Male with girlfriend
Married male
Male
Women's preference and knowledge of fruits are significantly higher than men's.
Consumption upgrading
Paying more attention to quality and brand than prices
Cherries, strawberries, fruit gift boxes, melons, oranges, and cherry tomatoes have become the top six most popular fruits during the Spring Festival in China.
Various fruit gift boxes
Not satisfied with the existing work schedule and too busy to enjoy a peaceful life.
Complained that the fruit rots too quickly for them to eat
@-Isotati
@happiness 03
On weekdays, the light in the office is always on at 12 o 'clock, and we work overtime on weekends.
I work 60 hours per week. I don’t even have a total sleep time of seven hours every day!
@wooooorky
@ aaalven
Buying fruits online is cheaper. However, if you buy too much at one time, it will rot quickly.
The seller said that the peaches can be stored for a week. But I only ate about one-fifth before they rotted!
Vegetables storage methods
Fridge Needed
No Fridge Needed
Potatos
Tuberous Roots: sweet potatoes
Unripe Vegetables
Wrap it in a newspaper or a fresh-keeping bag and store it cool and dry.
Edible Plant Stem:
asparagus, ginger, lotus root
Put on plastic wrap and put in the fridge at 0 to 1℃ .
Marrow:
pepper, tomato, eggplant
Store different types separately at 7 to 8 ℃ and a humidity of 90% to 95%.
Keep the epidermis intact while removing the hair roots.
Put it in a sunny place indoors and wait for it to mature.
Potatoes cannot be stored in the fridge
Store it in a cool and dry place.
Turn starch into sugar at low temperatures.
Moisture will make them produce toxic solanine.
Or wipe off the water, tie the bag tightly and place it at 8 to 10 ℃.
Leafy Green:
lettuce, cabbage
Cruciferous:
cauliflower, broccoli
Take off the broken leaves, and put on a fresh-keeping bag at 0 to 5℃.
Put it upright to keep its growing state at -1 to 0℃ and a humidity of 90% to 95%.
Information about fruits&vegetables
Fruits storage methods
Fridge Needed
No Fridge Needed
Depending on its rippen level
Other Tips
Vulnerable fruits
mangosteen, cherry, lychee, grape, passion fruit, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry etc.
peach, persimmon, apricot, plum, kiwi, avocado etc.
Tropical fruits
papaya, mango, banana, pineapple, dragon fruit
apple pear family, papaya, banana
When the fruit is ripe:
Put it in the fridge
Wrap up by paper to absorb its transpirated vapour
Before the fruit ripens:
Store at room temperature
Plastic bags prevent water loss or rotting
Put it in the fridge to keep it cool and dry
Easy to get frostbitten
Put fruits that release ethylene which accelerates ripening separately
Do not wash fruits before storage
The moisture remaining on the surface of the fruit is easy to erode the peel and accelerates the corruption.
Research
Basic infomation of interviewees
Age Profile
Commuting Time
Income Range
Rest On Weekendstime
Gender
Living Environment
Size Of The Fridge
Interviewees' Occupations
23-27
Sharing house 43.1%(47)
Living alone 56.9%(62)
Architect
Engineer
Customer service
Civil servants
Corporate clerk
Designer
59.7%
37.6%
1.8%
0.9%
Mini fridge
Double-door
Three-door
Side-by-side
Fridges in most people's residences are small and have limited space.
Young people are usually sharing an apartment with 2-4 roommates.
Most people have little time for leisure weekly.
The majority of people earn less than 10,000 yuan a month.
Attitudes towards fruits and vegetables
Purchase Frequency
Purchase Habits
Eating Frequency
Requirements For Freshness
Fruits
Vegetables
White-collars cook on weekends and weekdays evenings.
Most people buy vegetables in small quantities at a time.
77.2% Interviewees Has Expectations For Design
Maximum Acceptable Consumption
Want This Device...
Other Expectations
Easy to learn, simple to use.
Auto-identify vegetable & fruit categories when making a storage record.
Offer knowledge and reminders of food’s storage methods & best-before date.
Based on the existing refrigera-tor, no additional equipment
Add additional equipment
18.3%
81.7%
6%
17%
26%
52%
<100 yuan
100-500 yuan
500-1000 yuan
Free
Most white-collars store their fruit for 2-7 days, depending on how often they buy it.
Lack of food-storage methods & sorting knowledge.
All have the fruits and vegetables spoiled due to improper storage.
Basic Information
Working hours
Lifestyle
Expectation
Consumption habits
Frustrations
Typical interviewees
Living Alone
8:00 am-20:30pm
less than 500 yuan
9 hours/ day
Mini Fridge
Monthly salary of 10,000 yuan
27, engineer
Tang
Living Alone
7:40 am-19:30pm
Preferably free
8 hours/ day
Double-door Fridge
Monthly salary of 20,000 yuan
31, supervisor
Tang
3-Persons Sharing
7:00 am-18:30pm
100-200 yuan
8 hours/ day
Double-door Fridge
Weekends off
2 hours daily leisure time
Buy fruits&vegetables once or twice a week with a large variety and less quantity
Cooking on weekends
Put all the food in the fridge
It is impossible for me to get off work on time and have enough spare time due to work pressure.
Don’t know how to store fruits&vegetables
Only cook on weekends. The vegetables usually get rot and cause waste
Pop-up alerts of foods’ best-before-date
Scan food to make its storage record
Monthly salary of 10,000 yuan
26, office clerk
Jin
Weekends off
3 hours daily leisure time
Buy fruits&vegetables 2-3 times a week
Cooking dinner every day
Put most of the food in the fridge
Boxes of fruits as bonus from company
‘You will not know the right methods until after several mistakes when you start to live alone. This is life.’
Slight but no specific understanding of different storage methods
Can't remember the bonus fruits from the company before they rot
Use simple graphics to mark the status of fruits and vegetables
Automatically match the best-before-dates with foods through big data and remind me
1 day and 2 days off weekly in turn
3 hours daily leisure time
Eat fruit every day, buy it twice a week
Buy vegetables occasionally
Store fruits according to their types
Do not store vegetables
I like staying at home and buying groceries and fruits when I get off work. I don’t go out specifically to buy them.
Share the fridge with other roommates
Roommates’ fruits are perishable and always contaminate the fridge
Separate your food from others to avoid mutual contamination
Want specific reminders of perishables
User journey map
Mood
Time
Problems
Action
Reasons
Design oppotunities
Get home
Order take-out
Rest
Sleep
Get up to work
Get off work
Go to the supermarket on the way home
Relax at home and open the fridge to find fruit
Open the app and buy fruits and vegetables
Get fruits and vegetable delivery
Go to bed
Get up and go to work
Want to buy apples but cannot recall if there are some leftovers in the fridge
No ways to record and remind her how many fruits are in her fridge
Have the duration and status of the foods in her fridge, so she knows if she should get new storage
Find rotten apples and withered vegetables in the fridge because they had been already left for several days
Her roommate's banana tainted the mango in the bridge's same layer
Bad smell in the fridge
She overworks and fruits has passed the best-be-fore-date
Roommates’ food is in the same fridge without separation, causing mutual contamination
Lack of the proper storage knowledge of various food
A screen mounted on the refrigerator displays the food’s best-before-dates
An app to remind the storage time and current status
Spare the food with their roommate
To use deodorizer in the fridge
Many fruit shops close or only with limited choices at night
Most of the fruits and vegetables are sold out during the day
Able to see the fridge storage during daytime, buy in advance before getting off work.
Very sleepy but has to wait for the delivery
Worried that roommate’s rotten banana might still pollute her fruit
Not knowing whether to put the pitaya outside or in the fridge
Can't separate her fruit from her roommates’
Roommates don't know that bananas can't be put in the fridge
Scan to get the guide of storing fruits
Isolate fruits that release ethylene
Teach the knowledge of storage through entertainment methods like games
Eating fruit too late makes her stomach uncomfortable when going to bed
Doesn‘t know when it’s the best time to eat fruit
Reminder about when to eat fruit
Show fruit's nutritions and contraindicating combo
Forgot to bring an apple as planned when hurrying up to work
Worrying that her roommates took her fruits from the fridge by mistake
Easy to forget to eat food in the fridge when busy
Lack of communication with roommates leads to misunderstandings
Set up an e-memo to remind users their plans.
Put fruits and vegetables in seperateed bags with name tags
The ones share apartment with roommates
The ones who live alone
Mood
Time
Problems
Action
Reasons
Design oppotunities
Prepare for dinner
Have dinner
Rest
Get up to work
Get off work
Go to the nearby vegetable market
Sort and store the food he bought
Cook dinner
Eat while watching TV
Tidy up and clean up
Wash up and go to bed
Heat leftovers as breakfast
Check what's left in the fridge when buying vegetables.
Release inert gas to extend the storage time of fruits and vegetables
Scan food into the App in order
The App automatically produces a list of newly purchased fruit and vegetables, merges it with the old list, and informs the user of the storage time and method
Remind him which fruits cannot be eaten before going to bed when he eats fruit
Reasonably plan the fridge space for easy access.
Record the remaining fruits and vegetables according to the standard number of servings
Set the amount of each kind of fruit and vegetable, record the total amount in multiples of the standard amount, and eliminate the corresponding percentage after consumption.
Set a reminder in advance if there’s no food left in the fridge
Make a list of vegetables to be buying
Wonders if he still has food left at home
Saw a cantaloupe, but it was too big to buy
No way to help him record how much food was stored in the fridge
Do not know the storage time limit of cantaloupe
Eating fruit too late makes his stomach uncomfortable when going to bed
Don’t know whether to put the potatoes outside or in the fridge
There are still many vegetables left in the fridge, so he has to eat the vegetables left first that are not fresh
Lack of knowledge that fruit should not be eaten before going to bed.
The flavours of various foods in the fridge are mixed
Wonders if there are enough vegetables left for a meal
Do not know the proper storage knowledge of various food
Not knowing what's left in the fridge before he buys new foods
The fridge space has not been planned, and everything is stuffed indiscriminately.
There is no tool to measure the remaining fruits and vegetables accurately
Vegetables are not tasty because it’s not fresh
Feel like a waste when throwing away leftovers
Wanted to eat fruit after meal but found that there was no more in the fridge
Only eat leftovers from last time
Can’t remember to replenish the fridge in time
Sketch
Reference
See the contents and storage status inside the fridge on your phone
Sharing foods to roommates
Scan food
Food’s information
Food’s condition
Daily reminder
Show storage status of each person
Scan fruits and vegetable information into the app and check anytime
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APP “形色”
Scenario
Take over the food roommate leaves due to business trip
Next Morning
Next Morning
Check Food Data Before Arriving Home
Make a clear storing list of fruit and vegetable
The ones share apartment with roommates
The ones who live alone
Information Architecture
APP
Sign up/ Log in
The home page
Living alone
My account
Shared room
Living alone
Shared room
Create an account
Food list
Message
Vegetables
Fruits
Food quality alarm
Food chnge notice
Set up
Share food
Storage method
Remind method
Remind time
PAD
Living alone
Shared room
Change food
Vegetables
Fruits
Choose user
Home page
Food list
Quality Reminder
Preservation time
Put in
Take out
Scan& add food
Set amount
Reduce amount
1/2/3...
½/¼…
Wireframes
Interface display
