2. Overview Problem: Food that is improperly stored goes bad quickly.
Solution: Mobile application to remind customers of their purchases
Contextual Inquiry
Example Tasks
Design Sketches
Summary

3. Problem/Solution Refrigerator/Pantry Cluttered: Labeled Inventory
Forgotten/Improperly Stored Food: Reminders/Notifications sent to your phone
Unsure What to Make?: Recipes generated from what you have in your inventory

4. Contextual Inquiry Diverse samples House of college students
Recently married male
Middle-aged woman
Clerk at a grocery store
Methods
Follow them shopping
Follow them at their job
Cleaning out the refrigerator

5. Contextual Inquiry Results
People forget about items/buy multiples
Maintain Shopping List
Usually good about food storage
Don't realize how much thought they put into shopping
Call home for reference

6. Tasks Easy Medium Hard Being warned of improperly stored food
Preserve food the longest (I.E. Steak lasts up to a year in the freezer)
Receive notification that food will go bad soon
Don't let food go to waste!
Plan meal around your inventory while out shopping.
Encourages use of items already in the refrigerator with recipes.
Medium
Hard

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10. Summary Food can easily be wasted
People would find an inventory of what they already have helpful
Recipes aid the customer in figuring out how to use their food
Simple reminders can help the user save money by not letting food waste