Iron Sustainable Product · 2022
Fresh Mobile Application
by Deyin Zhang
- A' Design Award 2022 in Sustainable Product
- CLIENT: Zhejiang University
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 18,311
- Verification code 247A22354F · Verify this award
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About Fresh Mobile Application
Fresh is a mobile application designed to reduce food waste in the home. Fresh scans supermarket shopping lists to record purchased food, and users can add the items to a virtual refrigerator page. The application tracks the shelf life of each item and marks products with green, yellow and red prompt boxes according to the remaining freshness. Reminders help users consume food before it spoils. Fresh also provides weekly food waste reports and cumulative statistics that encourage sustainable consumption. The application is available for iOS and Android.
About the A' Design Award
Fresh Mobile Application is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Fresh Mobile Application is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Fresh Mobile Application is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Due to the current situation of food discarding caused by overbuying and leaving in the refrigerator, this app was designed. The app will record the shelf life of food and distinguish the food with different shelf life in the refrigerator through green, yellow and red prompt boxes to avoid food discarding. In addition, the app provides weekly wasted food reports and cumulative statistics to educate users about sustainable consumption and reducing food discarding.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Launched on IOS and Android
- Tags
- refrigerator assistant, app, sustainable consumption, reduce food waste
- Production Technology
- People can use this app to scan supermarket shopping lists to get food purchase records and add food to the app. App will track the shelf life of food and remind people to avoid aliment wasting. In addition, the application also provides weekly waste food reports and cumulative statistics to educate users on sustainable consumption and reduce aliment discarding.
- Design Challenge
- When this app is fully technically feasible, the only challenge is how to call on more people to use this app. We use visual graphics with a sense of design and differentiated prompt boxes to remind users. To be sure, the more people use this app, the less food will be wasted.
- Research
- With the development of material conditions, people used to overbuying food and forget the them in the refrigerator, resulting in a huge discarding of food. Based on this huge social problem, several extensive interviews was conducted with Chinese community residents, surveying their shopping and food storage in their refrigerators. After many discussions and user interviews with students majoring in design at Zhejiang University, the app was finally designed to skillfully educate users about sustainable consumption and reducing food discarding.
- Inspiration
- It is estimated that a third of all food produced each year, equivalent to 1.3 billion tons of food worth about 1 trillion U.S. dollars, ends up rotting in consumer and retailer trash bins or spoiled by improper transportation and harvesting.Sadly, people get in the habit of buying too much aliment, or forgetting to eat it before its sell-by date, leading to huge aliment discarding.
- Project Duration
- This project started in January 2022 in Hangzhou, China, and it is still under developing.
- Operation Flow
- First, scan the supermarket shopping list with the app, and the screen will get the purchased food. Users can drag specific foods to the "my fridge" page. App will actually record the shelf life of food and distinguish the different shelf life of food in the refrigerator through green, yellow and red prompt boxes to remind to avoid wasting. In addition, the application also provides weekly waste food reports and cumulative waste food statistics to educate users on sustainable consumption and reduce aliment waste.
