Title: Mealwrite Meal App: Group Project

summary

Designing a User-Cantered Solution Application

The goal of this project is to apply user research and design principles to

develop a user-cantered solution for a chosen case study.

• Create a mobile app that helps busy families plan meals, create grocery lists, and track what they have in their pantry.

• accessible from any platform mobile or desktop

• App needed to be be user-friendly

• accessible and usable for all including those with a range of disabilities

• allow users to search for recipes based on ingredients,

• consider dietary restrictions, and preferences,

• a grocery list that easily adapted and produce a grocery list

• the lists generated by the user cold be shared electronically between friends and family

• the app would ensure that customer’s private data was secure and protected

My role: Marekt Researcher Persona developer

• Market research: I deeded an appropriate name for the app was to be “Mealwrite”

• The name “Mealwrite” for the app was to form the basis of a trusted and recognised brand. The name was self explanatory. It was a play on words “Write” as if to scribe and “right” as in correct.

• Primary data collection and analysis: speaking to shoppers and noting their responses

• Qualitative: Interviews (face to face) interview a cross section of shoppers

• Quantitively: Designing data collection and analysis vehicle.

• Constructed questionnaire: Using Microsoft Forms to collect process and analyse data

process: Use of Google forms: Develop data capture: Questionnaires

• using both the primary and secondary resource sources to construct a profile of the typical user who would use the app to feedback to the group the pain points and considerations that should be considered when deciding on the initial design for the application.

The solution

• We collectively produced the design that met the objectives that we set out

Impact and reflection

• The group consisted of five individuals from all different professional backgrounds and skills to produce this task in just over five weeks.

• the strengths of the group was the individual who bravely put herself forward to lead the team.

• the team leader was very profession, well liked and respected by everybody

• under the direction of the team leader the team managed to work together effectively and meet tight deadlines and at the same time be able to be supportive and communicative of each others needs.

• this team project did allow me to see what skills others had and learn some of these skills. I particularly learned from the team leader whose tsk it was to undertake the ‘wireframing’ .

• we had a debrief meetings and the group including myself were very pleased with the finished app design. We believed that the design we finally developed collectively met the brief that we were tasked with.

• There was a general consensus of opinion that we would have liked to have more time to conduct more primary research but acknowledged that secondary resource which was plentiful and readily available was the most realistic option which we took to underpin and influence our final design decisions to produce our final app.