Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

Group 76

Project 1: Scan your receipt

Context

when? where? who? why?

The point of our project is to develop an application that would help reduce waste generation. Our application will adress to every customer who is interested in reducing its food waste due to expiry date. The application will scan a QR code in order to know the expriy date. Therefore, it will work at the supermarkets which will print a specific code bar on their receipts.

Target

for whom?

Large families are a potential target. Indeed, grocery shopping often lead to food waste because they can be huge and difficult to manage. Moreover, our product can also adress to students. Even if they do not buy as much products as a large family, they are not immune from food waste. As a matter of fact, studies show that only 57% of student think about waste while they are doing their races. More genrally, our product is made for those who have trouble dealing with management of purchases (quantities not adapted to needs),ignorance of food preservation (misinterpretation of consumption dates, poor management of the refrigerator and cupboards ...),... Those are the two firsts targets that we think are the most suitable to use our product.
However, our application can adress to the bigger number as long as people have a smarphone and the will to reduce their food waste.

Service offered

what?

The application is about food shopping, and avoiding waste due to expiry date. The application will be seperate in two part : one private and one connected to other people.

For the private one :
It is a application that send you a notification when you are near a expiry date of a product that you have.

The application also have a section where to put your shopping list. And your shopping list can be automatically filled everytime you do your shopping.

About the community one :
When you receive your notification about a expiry date, you can decide either you eat it or not. And if you know that you won't eat it, you can chose to give it. And the application will find someone around you to give to.
And you on the other part, can be notified when someone have something to give around you.


how?

It would be very easy to use because the only thing to do would be to scan the bar code on your receip after your shopping.
The supermarket would develop a personnal bar code (or a QR code, or a code, or anything to identify yourself) on your receip. And by scanning this code, the application would know what you bought with the expiry date.
So with those informations the application can plan when to send you a notification and can also fill your shopping list, it keeps update your list.
Identity

Pick images to describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, techs, …) and name your service accordingly.
Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead its context.

Benchmark

References

books/films/articles/...

Project 2: Share your ecologic DIY

Context

when? where? who? why?

When : In our daily basis we all have a huge amount of objects that we throw to the bin without even thinking of a second life for them like bootle, canned food. The goal of our project is to allow people to reduce their waste generation through transforming those objects with DIY. We want this app to be like a social network to give people the will to reduce their waste daily and to give them the will to always find new ideas to realize DIY or to share the ones they created.
Where : The goal is to allow this object transformation to be as easy as possible. Thus we aim at allowing people to do the DIY at home with the least object possible. Thus the app will be mainly used at home
Who : People who throw a lot of objects they might want to reuse by using DIY are mainly people between their 20-30: highly connected, sensitive to waste reduction.
Why : This application could have a double purpose. First of all it might help waste generation allowing people to give object a second life. Secondly it might also be really helpful for people such as student who don't necessarily have the money to buy decorations... and who thus could benefit a lot from this app.

Target

The purpuse of the project is to be widely accepted, to touch the largest scale of people.

In facts, first highly connected and ecological people will join de project. That mean that the first target to reach is young middle aged people. Students and young actives could be the precursors because they have a higher ecological sens than the rest of the population. Then the target will expand to others type of people like families. We could propose a service adaptable to the families.

Service offered

what? how?

First question to tackle is how to provide the good information to the good person. Our solution that personnalized advises will be given to the people thanks to a database algorithm.
Second question would be about the content : where do we find the ressources ? Our app is to work as a social network such as instagram for instance, people would have access in their feed to the ecologic DIY other people would have posted and they would be able to comment under the DIY to give their opinion on it and even show pictures of them trying to do it. Each profile will have its own page with all the DIY it posted gathered.

Identity

Pick images to describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, techs, …) and name your service accordingly.
Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead its context.

Benchmark

List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project

References

books/films/articles/...