Yuyao Fan and Huicong Hu Receives the A' Design Award for Food Guardian Mobile Application in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design

Yuyao Fan and Huicong Hu recognized for mobile technologies, applications and software design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 30, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Food Guardian Mobile Application by Yuyao Fan and Huicong Hu, designed for Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the A' Design Award Means

The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.

More About Food Guardian Mobile Application

Food Guardian is a mobile application designed to reduce food waste. Food Guardian records food waste in real time and encourages saving food through gamification. Users can track the amount of food they buy and receive reminders to store leftovers in a shared refrigerator. Further modules include a food calendar, a shopping list, a leftovers contest and a donation section. Food Guardian also supports the recycling of surplus food in cooperation with food suppliers and related organizations. The application is made for the iOS system.

Award Record

Yuyao Fan and Huicong Hu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

About the A' Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Award

The A' Mobile Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good design in mobile industry by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to mobile designers, application developers, software engineers and user interface designers from all countries. Entries typically include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. Awarded mobile designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/mobile

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/134920
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/134920
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!134920
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/325014

Media Contact

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Food Guardian Mobile Application
Function: Mobile Application
Category: Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software and Electronics & Appliances
Colors: Forest Green, Sea Green, Medium Sea Green, Khaki and Gainsboro
Images: 5
Client: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

The Recognition

Laureate: Yuyao Fan and Huicong Hu
Country: China
Recognition: A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #134920

Credits

Team: Yuyao Fan and Huicong Hu

Design Details

Unique Properties: Food guardian is designed to record food waste in real time and encourages people to save food through gamification. Through food guardian, people can control the amount of food they purchase and store leftovers in the shared fridge through App's reminders. Food guardian also provides ways of recycling of surplus food with the cooperation of food supplier and relevant organizations.
Inspiration: More than a trillion dollars worth of food is wasted every year. Among them, the consumption side of food waste accounted for the largest proportion, the reason lies in the lack of consumers' awareness of saving food and lack of effective reminder and supervision. Therefore, it is urgent to adopt design methods to reduce the food waste of consumers.
Research: First, the desktop research method was adopted to understand the current situation of food waste, its occurrence and different attitudes to food waste by searching for materials and reading literature. Second, the one-to-one interview method was used to conduct in-depth interviews with two target users, and the collected interview content was coded and extracted, so as to understand the frequency of food waste of users, the causes of food waste and the ways they thought might reduce food waste. In the stage of user demand analysis, the extracted interview content is classified and sorted out to form an affinity graph, and user demand statements and possible constraints are sorted out.
Challenge: The biggest challenge is solving technical problems at the device's end. The core function of food-Guardian is to detect the weight of Food on the plate and send a warning message when it exceeds the maximum amount of Food a user can eat. When the user is shopping in the supermarket, the quantity and type of different food in the shopping car can be detected and recorded in real time. Therefore, the successful operation of "Food-Guardian" largely depends on the accuracy and accuracy of detection, which is not a small challenge for the relevant technical personnel.
Realization and Technology: First I draw low-fidelity prototype of the interface on paper. Then I use Figma、Photoshop and Cinema4D to create a high-fidelity prototype of the interface and make interactive prototypes through Figma. The visual image of APP home page is modeled by C4D and made by using 3d rendering and 2D technology. For some vector illustrations in APP interfaces, I first draw sketches on paper and then use the pen tool in Photoshop to draw them, some illustrations are drawn directly in software using digital boards.
Operation and Interaction: First, enter the home page and click on each 2.5D building model to enter each module, including portion record, food calendar, shopping list, leftovers contest, food storage, food donation and food wizard. The food intake recording module is usually used when the user goes to the restaurant to eat. It is connected with the terminal device (some kind of calculable weight plate) to record the weight of the food in the plate and remind the user when the maximum amount of food is exceeded.
Specifications: Designed for the iOS System
Keywords: Interface Design, Gamification, User Experience, green design