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IACT 701 Fall 2021

Prof. Clark Delashmet

Process Book

Desmond Du, Yang Chen, Zoey Zhou

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Table of Content

Discover

  • Team information
  • Executive summary
  • Problem space
  • Opportunity statement
  • Secondary research
  • Primary research
  • Interview
  • Surveys
  • Diaries studies
  • Questionnaires
  • Insights
  • Person and key sentiments
  • HMW POV

Define

  • Affinity map
  • Insights
  • Hypothesis statements
  • Personas
  • Journey map
  • Ideation & sketches
  • Revised ideas
  • Finalized ideas

Develop

  • Wireframing and first prototype
  • Inspiration
  • User-testing #1
  • User-testing #2

Deliver

  • Final solution
  • Marketing & Vision video
  • Storybrand

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Team Information

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Yang Chen

Product Design Lead

Zoey Zhou

Research & Visual Lead

Product Design

Desmond Du

Project & Marketing Lead

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  • Executive summary
  • Target audience
  • Primary Research
  • Secondary Research

Discover

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What is Airchef

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AirChef is a meal preparation service expedited by drone delivery to help busy people plan for weekly meals and save time with consistent and convenient food delivery.

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Problem statement

Proposed Solution

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With the ubiquity of on-demand food delivery apps and platforms such as UberEats and Doordash, online food delivery has become a norm in our society in bringing convenience to customers’ doorsteps.

However, frustrations with the unreliability, inconsistency, and limitations of these services still exist. While these services do mitigate the issue of ordering food to their home, it does not fully address the issue of people with scarcity of time and are often busy with work to prepare or plan food for the week or longer term duration.

In order to help customers who desire consistency and convenience in the preparation of their meals so they can stay focused on their work or activities, AirChef helps these customers easily plan the meals for the week at an affordable pricing.

These deliveries are made possible with drones, so customers have more options in specifying the location, day, and time in which they want to have their food delivered. With the efficiency of drones, customers can expect a fast and accurate delivery to their doorsteps better than traditional in-person delivery.

With AirChef, we plan to help regain control of their life and develop a healthier lifestyle by bringing them delightful delicious meals.

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  • Age group: 20-30s

  • Role
    • College students
    • Young working adults

Target audience

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Secondary Research

Competitive Analysis

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Dominos

Uber Eats

Meituan

Drone/driverless/

Motorcycle delivery

Food/ daily necessities delivery

Hired full-time Dominos delivery man with cars

Pizza shop with delivery service

Registered delivery men with cars

Food/ daily necessities delivery

Direct Competitors

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Secondary Research

Competitive Analysis

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Direct Competitors — Issues

Dominos

Uber Eats

Meituan

Delivery men go to the wrong address

Food get lost

Drones don’t go direct to customers

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Secondary Research

Competitive Analysis

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Waymo's

Uber

Amazon

Online Marketplace

Self-driving taxi

Ride Sharing Company

Indirect Competitors

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What we are looking for?

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High Efficiency

Low Error Rate

Low Operating Cost

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About Drone Delivery

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Capacity

$126Billion

will raise 14% in the future 6 years

Weight

5-22 pounds

Height

150-1500 m

Speed

75mi/h

Automatic

Cruising & remote control

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About Drone Delivery

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Pros and Cons

$126Billion

will raise 14% in the future 6 years

Cons

Safety concern

Landing restriction

System rebuilding

Pros

High efficiency

Traffic relief

High delivery demand relief

Accurate delivery

More potential to growth

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Market Size

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$2 Billion

2020yr

Drone Delivery

$126Billion

will raise 14% in the future 6 years

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$5.6 Billion

2026yr

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Primary

Research

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Questionnaire

Customer’s experience with food delivery�Delivery man experience with food delivery

Observations

In restaurants, using food delivery apps, customer ordering food online, how deliverymen pick up food

Interview

Customer’s experience with food delivery

Diary study

Customer’s day to day tasks

In order to learn more about our users, we gathered information to understand the user’s characteristics, aims, & behaviors using various methods such as observation, questionnaire, and interview.

This process involve defining the goals of these observations and listing down list of questions we wanted to learn from the users. From there, the team was able to gather data in a consistent and reliable fashion.

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Primary Research

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Situation & Stories

Were there any events of significance that affected the delivery experience?

General & Usage

How often do you order online and get deliveries? What benefits does it bring?

Preferences

Expectation on delivery service, and what they value the most in the app

Philosophical

What part of their lifestyle incentivize the use of food delivery app?

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Observations — In restaurant & delivery man

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Woman collecting 2 orders at once

Her hands are full with the orders as much as holding her phone which seems very inconvenient

In order to understand the usability, pain points & problems of using food delivery services, the team and I sat in local food businesses and observe the context and environment of how each player works.

Below are some of our key observations:

Dominos delivers to wrong address

Customer had to retrieve their order from the wrong address, and delivery man was not able to communicate to customer about correcting the delivery

Man waiting for his order at a pickup station

This customer was waiting for the staff to call his name about order being ready to be collected. The man stayed closed to the pickup point so that he does not miss out on his order

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Define

  • Affinity map
  • Insights
  • Hypothesis statements
  • Personas
  • Journey map
  • Ideation & sketches
  • Revised ideas
  • Finalized ideas

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Theming & Insights — Affinitization

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Observation Data

Insights

Using Miro, an online collaborative whiteboard platform, we affinitize the data points we collected from our primary research to identify visual trends and uncover deeper insights that would help us develop solutions.

How we did it

In order to reduce bias, the team themed the observation data within a short time frame. Once we feel that all the themes have been uncovered, with generated insights from each themes

Theme identified: 


Delivery Experience

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Key insights

These insights reveal the unreliability, inconsistency, and limitation of food delivery app services.

Main Takeaway

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Delivery mistakes

Delivered to wrong address despite app GPS functions

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Convenience utility

People are inclined to use food delivery because they have lack of time to cook or eat

Simple process

Prefers to reduce the process to have a meal

Order tracking

Food arriving on time prevents frustrations

Whole process

Wants to be informed about the full process of food delivery eg. Preparation, collection, delivery

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Limited use

Food deliveries are used once or twice a week due to its priciness

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Define — Hypothesis Statements

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Theming process

Once we have developed all the insights, each team member casted 3 votes on their favorite ones. In the case of a tie, we repeat the voting process with the selected themes while cutting down on the number of votes each person has.’

Conceptualization

In this phase, each insight was translated into a Point of View statement where identified the target audience, their painpoints, and what solutions might help them. From there, we are able to generate assumptions or HMW statements on how we can solve the problems faced by the user.

What was consistent

  • Frustrations with delivery
  • Shortage of time
  • Desire consistency & convenience
  • Troubles of preparing a good and delicious meals

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HMW & POV Statement

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We met young adults who are often busy with work, and do not have time to prepare food for the week.

We were amazed that they are willing to skip lunch or not have a full one so they can get back to work asap.

It would change the world if if they do not have worry about preparing or ordering food for the week so they can stay focused on their work or activities

How might we ensure they have meals delivered to them consistently and conveniently for the week or long-term duration?

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Bio

Diana is interested in having as much fun and joy in her life without having to worry about the drudgeries of life such as chores.

She enjoys spending time with her husband, dog, friends, and often have them over to play board or video games. Her husband works in service industry and come back late at night, so Diana is mostly responsible for preparing dinner for the two of them.

Personality

Energetic, happy, kind

Frustrations

  1. Sometimes skip lunch or just eat snacks instead.
  2. Planning meals for the week is hard because it is a mixture of getting groceries and having the energy to cook
  3. Unable to fully focus at work because she has to worry about planning and preparing and planning for meals

Expectations

Find ways to maximize her productivity at work and make best use of her time

Quote

“I wish someone would just take care of the cooking for me”

Bio

Stephen juggles many responsibilities such as managing school work, going to gym regularly, doing freelance work, and spending time with friends. He wished that he has more time to do these things without having to rush to his next meeting or appointment.

Personality

Passionate, quirky, bold

Frustrations

Without a consistent source of income, Stephen is concerned about controlling his food budget tightly which leads to him being dissatisfied with not being able to enjoy a more comfortable lifestyle

Expectations

Wants to spend more time with his friends and cat, and as well going to the gym

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"Man, I'm broke from dining out this week", "I'm so lazy to do this..."

Personas

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DIANA JOHNSON

Female, 29 years old

Remote digital designer

Married

Orlando, Florida

Stephen Mokinson

Male, 24 years old

Graduate student at art school

Single

Savannah, Georgia

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User pain points

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External:

“I need to eat but I also need to work”

Internal:

“How can I find the time to cook? I am already so busy!”

Philosophical:

“It should not be so hard to improve or life a healthier lifestyle”

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Diana has much more work this week and do not have time to buy groceries and cook for her and her husband.

How might Diana ensure they have a consistent nutritious lunch prepped for them for the week so focus on her career while living healthy a healthy lifestyle

User scenario 1 🏃🏻‍♀️

Stephen is looking for a way to prepare and eat healthy meals so he can maximize his time he spent on his studies and spending time with friends for the week.

How might we give Stephen opportunities for longer-term meal planning at an affordable price as opposed to one order at a time?

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Journey Map �Scenario 1: Using meal plan

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We have two different journey maps with different scenarios for the initial concept:

  • Using Meal Plan
  • Using Single-time Ordering

The purpose of it is to discover the inner demands and incentives of customers, and understand opportunities of drone food delivery.

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Journey Map

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Scenario 1: Using meal plan

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Scenario 1: Using meal plan

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Journey Map

Scenario 1: Using meal plan

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Journey Map�Scenario 2: Single-Time ordering

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Journey Map

Conclusion

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Scenario 2: Single-Time ordering

Scenario 1: Using meal plan

  1. User would feel comfortable that the app meet their needs for meal planning and easily accessing to healthy lifestyle
  2. They would be excited to have high quality and delicious food even though experiencing busy schedule
  3. They are looking forward to have discount to cut down the price of the meal plan
  4. They feel curious and excited on delivery by drones
  • They are frastructing on the delay of food delivery
  • They are satisfied to have group buying with neighbours to cut down the price
  • They enjoy getting recommendations of food by other customers and users
  • Receiving food with confirmation code gains reliability

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Ideation & Sketching

Hypothesis statements

  1. How might we give users opportunities for longer-term meal planning at an affordable price as opposed to one order at a time?
  2. How might we notify user or deliverymen faster if the address is wrong, and be able update it asap during the delivery?

Process

Step 1: We voted for HWM questions, and selected two final HMW questions

Step 2: We had brainstorming and ideation based on 2 selected HMW

questions. Each of 3 team members came up with 8 ideas for each HMW for about 20 minutes.

Step 3: We voted for preferred ideas, and each of us had 5 tickets for each HMW.

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Ideation & Sketching

Hypothesis statement:

How might we give users opportunities for longer-term meal planning at an affordable price as opposed to one order at a time?

Ideas:

  1. Discount & meal plan focus: buy more save more
  2. Quick cook ingredient pack
  3. Group buying with neighbour: save more
  4. Easy cooking machine
  5. Customize Meal Plan for week
  6. Recycle package for refund: sustainability concerns

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Ideation & Sketching

Hypothesis statement

How might we notify user or deliverymen faster if the address is wrong, and be able update it asap during the delivery?

Selected Ideas

  1. Bulk Buy Meal
  2. Customize Meal Plan for week
  3. Recycle package for refund

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Ideation & Sketching

Hypothesis statement

How might we notify user or deliverymen faster if the address is wrong, and be able update it asap during the delivery?

Ideas

  1. Address Confirmation: avoid deliver to wrong places
  2. Integrated delivery system of drivers: for on-time address changing back-up plan
  3. Food Lockers
  4. Physical reminder fob
  5. Automatic route change in Navigation system

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Refined ideas

Idea 1

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Refined ideas

Idea 2

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Refined ideas

Idea 3

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Ideation & Sketching

Feedbacks from the class

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  • Restructure the delivery system and infrastructure
  • Users are not willing/happy to own/have an individual drones/station

Low Feasibility

  • How if the drone have crush or other accidents?

Liability concerns

  • Provide a platform for customers to share how they use drone delivery, as a brand promotion

Social Impact

  • Think about future 5 years, forecasting problems will have in the futures

Future

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Revised ideas

Considerations

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Planning capabilities

  • Plan for the week
  • Meal plans
  • Nutrition goals
  • Add-ons - protein shake

Incentives

  • Affordable
  • Discounts for group buying via distance or zip code
  • Discounted recommendations
  • Fast and efficient
  • Available at all times — safer, early breakfast
  • Accessible - if you do not have a car
  • Mobile - deliver to anywhere
  • All the food options

AR landing pad spot

  • Help user to designate an accurate and safe location for drop off
  • Gives the drone better data for accurate delivery
  • Remove the need for a physical addon or item to use the service.
  • Within the food delivery app

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Revised ideas

QUICK BRAINSTORMING BASED ON FEEDBACK

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Revised ideas

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Highlight

Develop

Under considering feasibility, AR mapping (app) would be more accessible

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Develop

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  • Wireframing and first prototype
  • Inspiration
  • User-testing #1
  • User-testing #2
  • Final solution

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Concept development - Define concept

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Meal plan

One-time order

AR landing spot

Drone Delivery

  • Fast and reliable
  • No traffic jam
  • New experience
  • Cost saving

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Concept development

Wireframe development

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Building the initial wireframe base on our notes and rough ideas.

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User Testing

01 — Pilot

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We conducted 7 user testing for with a mid-fi figma prototype of our app.

The task scenarios that we tested for

  • Browsing homepage
  • Browsing and ordering a meal plan
    • What do you prioritize?
    • It’s a Sunday, how would you order a meal plan when you are planning for your meals for the week.
    • What information were you expecting on the meal plan page?
  • Checking your order history/meal plan
  • Making an order using Group Buy
  • Checking drone tracking
  • Designate an AR landing spot and order

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Homepage

Meal plan

Filter

Group buy

Drone AR

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App screens — Login

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App screens — Meal plan

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App screens — Group buy

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App screens: Check out

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App screens — Designating, tracking, arrival

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User testing playbook

We conducted our user-testing by developing a “playbook” that listed the steps to build rapport with the users before introducing the prototype.

�This playbook also covered the list of questions to ask so each testing are consistent in terms of the data we are gathering

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Data documented on Rainbow Spreadsheet

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Affinitization of user comments

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Insights

  • Confusion with “Group Buy feature”
  • Missing lots of Visibility of System Status eg. price breakdown
  • User experience was not smooth eg. too many pages
  • Most of the comments revolve around simplifying the ordering process of the meal plan
  • Users prefers to click on elements that have images as opposed to having text

Actionable Steps

  • Instead of addressing all the comments, we decided to restructure the app or interaction
  • Prioritizing the Meal Plan and AR drone feature
  • Removing unnecessary features, pages
  • Simplifying the steps

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User test 2

02 · 30 Oct 2021

We conducted 6 user testing for with a mid-fi figma prototype of our app

Role:

Facilitator — Desmond, Yangge

Note takers — Zoey, Yangge

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Comfortability

Were users ready to use the app to modify their lifestyles?

What did we test for?

Planning meals

for the week

What are their points of considerations? What are you looking for?

Feasibility

Did the idea of AR landing drone appeal and make sense?

Incentives

What are users considering before they make a purchase?

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App screens: Sign up & Questions

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App screens: Meal plan browsing

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App screens: Checkout

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App screens: AR

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App screens: Tracking, arrival

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Observations & Comments

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Summary of testing

  1. Overall positive response to the service, user experience, aesthetics, comfort with adoption
  2. Minimal confusion with what the app does
  3. Excitement
  4. Immediate feedback are often about design consistency eg. corner radius, icon stroke width
  5. Small stuff to help reduce considerations eg. Basic caloric intake, fee structure

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Findings from user-testing

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Lack of options

Users still use UberEats or Doordash because it is the only option available

Incentives

Users were attracted to having beverages or dessert to go with their meals

Considerations

Users were concerned about type of food available, portion size in

Scarcity of time

frustrations of preparing meal because of scarcity of time

Comfortable

Users like the idea of being able to plan for meals for the week

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Before & After

  • Addressed the biggest pain point of the users: frustrations of preparing meal because of scarcity of time
  • Simplicity of app usage
  • Better design, images, and writing

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Actionable steps to refine the app

Implemented

  • Welcome page — Introduce and emphasize functions an delivery
  • One-time delivery function
  • Food customization of meal plan
  • Add-ons

After check-in

  1. Physical packaging of food mockup
  2. Elevate Visual branding + aesthetics logo, name
  3. Prototype to product
    1. Page flow consistency
    2. Organize & optimize components
    3. Final design consistency

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Deliver

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Our Features

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AR spot chosen

Our concept utilize AR technology to help customers choose their food delivery spot. Customers can interact with the screen and assign a proper spot.

Swap based on your need

Customers can build their meal plan on the home page or they can swap to a one-time order page to get their food as soon as possible.

Track your order

The tracking system allows customers to track the drone’s location. Meanwhile, they can observe the drone’s status and weather condition. On the tracking page, the help and contact information can be accessed.

Build your meal plan

Customers can use our product to build their meal plan and we will make that deliverable. We have a great healthy meal combination that meets the daily nutrition needs.

On & in time

he delivery time is guaranteed. Whenever you need food our delivery system will make it fast and accurate.

Drone deliver

We use drones to get your food delivered. It’s a new concept. We try to corporate the drone with current food delivery product and make more specializations.

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Build your meal plan

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Customers can use our product to build their meal plan and we will make that deliverable. We have a great healthy meal combination that meets the daily nutrition needs.

  • Plan your meal in advance
  • Customize each meal
  • Flexible delivery time

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On & in time

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Design

The delivery time is guaranteed. Whenever you need food our delivery system will make it fast and accurate.

Customize your time

Reached a great height in the atmosphere

  • No traffic jam
  • Accurate
  • Warm and fresh food

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Drone delivery

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We use drones to get your food delivered. It’s a new concept. We try to corporate the drone with current food delivery product and make more specializations.

  • New experience
  • Less cost

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AR spot chosen

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Design

Our concept utilize AR technology to help customers choose their food delivery spot. Customers can interact with the screen and assign a proper spot.

Rest your spot

Click the button to re-select the drone’s land

  • AR technology
  • Choose your spot

Drag to select

By dragging the icon, user can select the drone’s proper landing space.

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Swap based on your need

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Design

Customers can build their meal plan on the home page or they can swap to a one-time order page to get their food as soon as possible.

Swap order types

Plan your meal or make a instant order

  • Flexible order option
  • Easy to swap

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Track your order

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Design

The tracking system allows customers to track the drone’s location. Meanwhile, they can observe the drone’s status and weather condition. On the tracking page, the help and contact information can be accessed.

See the arrival time

We also remind you when your order will arrive within 3 minutes

  • Know your food delivery progress
  • Get additional information

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App usage journey

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Customize

Customize each meal by pressing “add and change”

Check out

On the order page, you can check out and there will be a pop-up window reminding you the price

Choose spot

Interact with the AR location choosing tool to get your proper delivery spot

Build meal plan

Browse the meal plan and choose what you need

Tracking order

Track your order and prepare pick it up in advance

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This is all our prototype workflow that we want to demonstrate. It’s the base logic connection among pages, text, and screen elements.

We designed the information architecture after the using testing and use it to work out the final prototype.

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