A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Goes to Fresh Mobile Application by Deyin Zhang

Deyin Zhang recognized for sustainable products, projects and green design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design category for Fresh Mobile Application by Deyin Zhang, designed for Zhejiang University. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The A' Design Award Explained

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.

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 Deyin Zhang

Deyin Zhang is currently a joint PhD student at King's College London, a PhD student at Zhejiang University's School of Computer Science (China), and an outstanding undergraduate alumnus of Chongqing University (China). Deyin Zhang has awarded 2024 China Design Industry Top 100, the first time as a student to win the Top 10 Design Rising Stars (2024), China's first batch of intermediate user experience designers (2021), China's IDC ‘WUWEI’ Young Creative Talent (2023), China National Scholarship, Tencent Scholarship, Jiang Zhen Scholarship, Provincial Self-Reliance Advanced Individuals.

Award Record

This recognition makes Deyin Zhang a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Award

The A' Sustainable Product Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good sustainable products by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sustainable product designers, green product manufacturers, eco-friendly product brands and industrial designers from all countries. Entries typically include sustainable projects, environment friendly designs, recycled, upcycled and bio-degradable products. Awarded sustainable product designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/sustainable-product

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/139753
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139753
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139753
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/330659

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Fresh Mobile Application
Function: Mobile Application
Category: Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design
Discipline: Industrial Design
Industry: Sustainability
Colors: Tan, Rosy Brown, Indian Red, Light Gray and Sienna
Images: 5
Client: Zhejiang University

The Recognition

Laureate: Deyin Zhang
Country: China
Recognition: A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #139753

Credits

Team: Yao Wang, Chengyi Shen, Zhitong Cui, Hebo Gong, Designer：Xiyuan Zhang and Tutor：Shijian Luo

Design Details

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.
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.
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.
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.
Realization and 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.
Operation and Interaction: 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.
Project Duration and Location: This project started in January 2022 in Hangzhou, China, and it is still under developing.
Specifications: Launched on IOS and Android
Keywords: refrigerator assistant, app, sustainable consumption, reduce food waste