Week 9: First Wireframe

Taking one idea a step further

📌 Introduction

This week I had to choose one idea to start building its wireframe. I picked the produce swapping one, where users can exchange their food waste for fresh produce weekly. Here’s a summary of the features this idea entails.

As you can see, I scratched the ‘Sign up to volunteer at a farm’ because I think I was adding too many features in one place. However, I am considering adding an info section where users can find where their produce comes from.

🛠 Wireframe

This is the rough user journey I built:

Onboarding → educate the user → schedule pickups → get recipes based on weekly produce→ receive produce → begin cooking, not wasting!

Below are the wireframes of this journey. Keep in mind that I will be tweaking this for next week.

Adjustment: no one likes filling in the information. Let’s add a ‘Connect Account’ button!

Adjustment: Add where produce comes from!

Adjustment: Include short clips of steps

➕ Advantages

Here are some of the high-level advantages I outlined:

1. This idea is great for people already using and providing this type of service.
2. Service providers have a stable pickup system, which means they might have a more stable income.
3. Services might be able to reach more people and attract users. (A lot of these companies’ websites only work with forms and being in constant communication with the provider)
4. Users would learn by doing = the recipe to success. (pun intended)
5. Users won’t feel guilty when disposing food scraps; they will feel empowered and have a sense of accomplishment.

➖ Weaknesses

As there are advantages, there are also downsides:

1. This solution might not work post-pandemic. Services might disappear if the government brings back their food waste pickup system.
2. Tips might get redundant if there’s more standardization in methods.
3. There’s still a chance of contaminating the food waste. Users might still drop their keys and a metal spoon in their bins.

💭 Final Thoughts

It was interesting to flesh out some of the main features of this concept. However, I am considering evolving my ‘Smart Groceries’ idea from last week, as not everyone can afford or has this type of service — food scraps pickup — available at hand.

For next week, I need to build a one-pager for users to give feedback on. Stay tuned for my upcoming post, where I will share more details and my findings.

As always, stay safe and healthy. See you next week✌🏼

Thank you for taking the time to read through my post.

To connect or share your opinion, please reach out to me via email at crussoherrera@sva.edu.