meli

Meli is a seamless system that uses AI and AR technology to improve home cooks experiences with intuitive cooking and leftover prevention. The core values of Meli lie in solving the current issues of food waste in the industry.

Time

10 weeks

Team

Gabriel Vizcarrondo

Taylor Rosenfeld

Nico Zafarna

Luke Lobstky

Isabela Muñoz

Role

UX Designer

The Problem

People all over the world are starving, while here in
the United States and other countries, food is being underutilized.

1/3 of all the food produced gets wasted and 3.5lb of food per person at home gets wasted every week.

Our Hypothesis

Going into our research we expected to hear most people say that they don’t like to waste food, but they waste it...

We are aware that people may say that they care about food waste when in reality their tendencies may show otherwise. With groceries and restaurants we knew that regulations and corporate inlfuences would make things difficult for acquiring information.

Research

Survey

106 answers

Interviews

29

Cultural Probes

11

Observations

2

Research Insights

  • Cooking for portion of 1 or 2 people if extremely har to do efficiently. 

  • Our users recognize their food waste but have limited options for solving them.

  • Users need to reference recipes and communication efficiently.

  • Poor planning leads to a temporary solution and double waste.

  • Time and money are top of mind when deciding on saving or even consuming food.

How might we create a convenient, rewarding, and informative system to prevent leftovers for the user?

INTRODUCING…

meli

Meli consists on providing home cooks with intuitive cooking, grocery acquisition, and leftover prevention. The core values of meli lie in solving the current issues of foof waste in the industry.

Features

  • 1. Onboarding

    Onboarding helps you to go through the meli app showing you app tips, pair with your own meli device and pick your preferred recipes

  • 2. Recipe Browsing

    Browsing takes you through lists of recipes based on categories and your set preferences. While browsing on this home screen you can also save recipes you’ll want to make.

  • 3. Saved Recipes and Delivery

    On this screen you can review your saved recipes and add needed ingredients to your cart. You choose the number of portions so meli can adjust the recipe to your needs. meli can then deliver your correctly portioned groceries to you from your preferred super market.

  • 4. Recipe

    On the recipe page you can get a deeper look at the recipe, ingredients, description and, pictures that you will be making with meli.

  • 5. Time To Cook with meli!

    Start cooking with meli! Your assistant will guide you through your recipe step by step with AI and AR projections. Once you are done snap a picture and share it to all your friends on social media.

Smart Kitchen Device

GIF Instrcution
Sequencing

Portion Control

Real-time
Voice Assistance

Projection

AR Projections

Measuring

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