Foode (service design)

 For my service design class final, my friend Molly (she really needs a blog) and I designed a service to connect people with food.

We worked on it for a few weeks, and for a while it became so real that it was actually hard to create a presentation for it. We had gone over every possibility and every situation so it felt redundant to do it. 

But we pulled it off, and it went really well. I will have a video of the presentation up at some point. (our teacher recorded it, I just need a copy ).

So about it…

Foode is a service that designs a weeks worth of meals to fit your eating habits. Foode does this by getting to know every detail about what the user likes to eat, how long they have to cook, how experienced they are and how much money they have to spend per meal. Foode also looks at allergies, diets, religious restrictions, etc and works with them. Once designed, foode then delivers all the groceries needed to make the meals. Included in the delivery are customized recipe cards and a food report so the user can see not only how much meal costs to make, but how much it costs per person.

After the user has made the meals, they can go back on the website and rate them. This gives foode a better understanding about what they liked and didn’t like enabling us to better serve the user.

We created the site so we would have something to demo. The idea was to convince people it was real. For the video we made we wanted to show the interactivity the site had, and mocked up illustrator files would not do. The norm for this would have been to do it in flash, but because it only had to work in safari (as it was being recorded in it and nothing else) we where able to rapid develop it in HTML and not worry about it being compatible. The rounder corners are just some of the things that only work in safari. All the interaction/ animation was done in mooTools , a javascript framework. Mootools allowed me to do some of this stuff in half the time it would have taken in flash/actionscript, and because it is a web site it looks like one too.

Here is a short video that I just threw together. The password is risd

Foode Service from Adam Meyer on Vimeo.