Hochschule Augsburg |
Lina Ciu
Master Thesis
2019
An App for
Reducing Personal Food Waste
UX Research and Design
applying the Nudge Theorie
Food waste is one of the serious wastes that occur every day but easy to be ignored.
It seems to have no impact on our daily lives, but actually, in a long-term, it would cause not only the loss of money but also a lot of damage to the environment.
In this thesis, the author demonstrates an efficient way to reduce personal food waste.
An incentive system was proposed that encourages users to take food waste seriously and improve this problem by doing efforts in a long process.
Lean UX design method was applied in research progress, based on personas and context of use some assumptions were proposed and verified.
Basically taking foodimage is an intuitive and convenient way for recording food conditions and checkable without any limitation.
An incentive method was presented, that is a combination of charitable donation and personal saving.
So far according to the user test, most users were positive about this incentive, but a long-term user test with a coded-prototype needs to be performed to draw more accurate conclusions.
