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Food Storage Tracker is a clean, simple, fast food Sort items by expiration date and alphabetically
inventory app which aims to give the user the
ability to quickly record and keep track of their Ability to search for items
food storage. If the app fails to do this, it fails and
must be re-evaluated. The goal and main purpose Ability to see quantity of each item
of this app is to make the task of assessing and
calculating food more efficient and convenient than
writing it out on paper.
Food Storage Tracker | A Food Inventory App
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Research Testing Testing
Background Round 2 Prototype Round 5 Prototype
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Research Testing Testing
Competitors Round 2 User Test Round 5 User Test
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Research Testing Conclusion
Visual Elements Round 3 Prototype Final Design
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Development Testing Activities
Word List Round 3 User Test Interaction
Principles
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Development Testing
Persona & Senerios Round 4 Prototype
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Testing Testing
Round 1 Sketches Revised Senerios
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Testing Testing
Round 1 User Test Round 4 User Test
Research Calculators
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Conclusion Calculators are simply machines that
calculate something. The notion
Activities of a “calculating machine” is not a
new one. People have been using
instraments to calculate numbers.
Testing History
Conclusion The first phone call was made in 1878
by Alexander Graham Bell. Motorola
Activities created some of the first cell phones
during the 1980s. Some of these first
cell phones cost up to $4,000 and
were not at all compact.
Research Interfaces
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Conclusion In 1981 Xerox introduced the first
double-clickable icons, overlapping
Activities windows, dialog boxes and a
1024*768 monochrome display. Two
years later Apple, Visi Corp and
Microsoft introduce their first icon/
window interface computers.
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Word List
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Word lists are often helpful
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communicate a message or
intent clearly. In this case, I
went through the things that
might be associated with my
chosen key words. The words
I chose were food, storage,
inventory, tracking ans food
storage.
Research Persona
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Background:
Conclusion
Teresa is a stay-at-home mom with three children, a 7 year old, a
Activities 5 year old and a 3 year old. Teresa and her husband try to keep a
descent amount of food storage on hand in their home. Teresa often
will pull from their food storage when cooking. Teresa stays pretty
busy with their garden and family responsibilities, but she does check
her Iphone ever hour or so to make sure she hasn’t missed any
important messages or to just respond to a friend’s text message.
Teresa almost always keeps her phone near her or on her person.
Objective:
Teresa wants to be able to keep better track of what they have in their
food storage so they buy the right items and keep it replenished.
Challenges:
Name: Teresa Lynn
Teresa has tried to record what they have in food storage in the past,
however it gets really messy when she is constantly crossing items
Age: 32 off and adding those same items back to her list when she goes
shopping. Teresa needs a better way of keeping track of what food
they have in their storage. If she can find an app that will help her
Location: Ogden, Utah get a handle on her food inventory and is simple to add and subtract
items, she will replace her paper pad with the app.
Occupation: Mom
Research Senerios
Development
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Conclusion You just got home from the store and bought a few items for your food storage. You need to add 12 cans of corn, 24 cans of green
beans and 3 - 5 lb bags of wheat flour. You choose to use the scanner option in the Food Storage Tracker App to get all these items
Activities in your inventory. Don’t forget to enter the expiration dates so you can keep track of when things are about to expire.
Senerio 2:
You have been canning all those tomatoes from your garden, and there were a lot this year. You are getting ready to take them down
stairs to the food storage pantry and count 32 - 64 oz jars of tomatoes. You need to quickly add these jars to the Food Storage
Tracker before you forget about them.
Senerio 3:
You are at the store and they are having a great deal on canned beans. You have been trying to get your food starage stocked up.
You know that you have some beans in storage already, but you can’t remember if they are black beans or pinto beans or how many
you have. Use the Food Storage Tracker App to check how many cans of black beans and pinto beans you have so you can buy
what you need.
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Testing Test 1:
Conclusion The user tried to do senerio 1 and add items to the inventory using the scanner option. When he got to the Add Item screen, he
clicked on the text field area and said, “Then a keyboard would pop up here and I’d type in the food”. He didn’t seem to know what
Activities to do after saying that. I asked him about his response and he said that he just saw the text feild an thought he needed to click on
that. He didn’t realize that it was two different options to add an item on that page.
Test 2:
The user Had no problem getting through senerios 2. He knew how the Add Item page worked at this point and just entered the
name of the item and moved onto entering the quantity and expiration date. I did notice a little bit of hesitation between the quantity
pop up and the expiration date pop up. He took a second longer to hit ‘Done’ due to the incosistant placement of the ‘done’ button.
Test 3:
During senerio 3, the user went right to the inventory list and said he would go to the ‘B’ section of the list bacause he was looking
for beans. We talked about the nameing and ordering of items and he said that it would make more sense for all beans (green
beans, pinto beans, black beans, ect) to be in the ‘B’ section of the list and name then ‘Beans, Green”.
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Change display of Add Item Screen
Conclusion
The user seemed to struggle understanding what was going on the Add Item screen and had some confusion as to where to click
Activities and how to capture a barcode. A portion of this confusion could be due to the fact that we were using very rough paper sketches
and it’s hard to visualize the way it would actually be on a screen. Despite the crude prototype, the Add Item screen could use some
re-designing. Perhaps by moving the scanner option to the top of the screen and placing the text field towards the bottome or just
having a button that says ‘No barcode’ and then taking the user to the New Item screen. This may help cut back confusion.
Item Organization
In test 3, the user was unsure if Pinto Beans would be under ‘B’ for Beans or ‘P’ for Pinto. This is something that could go in the
settings, however it seems that categorizing items as ‘General, Specific’ may be a more establiches convention. For example,
Beans, pinto.
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Testing Test 1:
Conclusion The user seemed to be able to figure out how to add an item and find the scan bar code option pretty well. Once she added the first
item, I had the app go to the inventory list instead of the home page. She wasn’t quite sure how to go about adding another item
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Test 2:
The user found a lot of things that didn’t make sense to her while completing senerio 2. As she was typing in the name of the item,
she wasn’t really sure why is said “No Results” or why is had a Search button in the key board. She said that since the items she
was trying to add was a homemade item, searching it wouldn’t work. Another area of confusion for the user was when she was
entering the quantity of the item, there was no Done button, so she hit Save. It would not have allowed her to save until she entered
an expiration data, but she wasn’t sure how to get rid of the quantity number pad once she was done with it. Finally the user said
that she wouldn’t put an expiration date on homemade stuff, she said, “well, I guess I could just organize it on my shelves and know
that those items wouldn’t show up in the expiration sort”.
Test 3:
During senerio 3, the user brought up the question of what would happen if she had bought the same item at different times and
therefore have different expiration dates. Again the user said that she could just put it on her shelf differently to keep track of the
different times she has bought that item.
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Go Back to the Same Screen
Conclusion
In Test 1, the user successfully added an item, but got confused when the app took her to the inventory list screen instead of the
Activities original page she saw when she started the app. We talked about her confusion and determined that it would be best for the user
if I kept the flow of the app the same. I decided that I needed to decide if I wanted the user to add items from the 3-button home
screen or from the inventory list.
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Add Item Screen Add Item -> Scan Screen Add Item -> Search for
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New Item Screen New Item -> Expiration/ Edit Items Screen
Made on date
Testing Test 1:
Conclusion The user scrolled through the food list to find the corn insead of clicking the + button in the navigation bar. Eventually he determined
that he had to click the + because corn was not on my list (paper doesn’t afford actual scrolling). If he had see corn on the inventory
Activities list, he would have clicked on it and gone to the corn item screen and could have added more of the item there. Despite the efforts
to make the search or scan screen show all the options for entering the item name, the user was completely unsure as to what to
click.
Test 2 & 3:
The user had frustrations with this senerio also. He suggested that instead of having it be a search text field, it would make more
sense for it to be an “enter item name” text field. The user got through this senerio very quickly, partly because all the information he
needed was on the first screen.
Test 4:
This was a new senerio to test a few features and needs of the user discovered in Round 02 testing. The user was concerned about
how the App would know which items/ expiration date you used. We discussed that perheps the edit item screen would allow the
user to enter how many they use and what the expiration dates were. We found that the current edit page was usless at this point
because all you could do was add of subtract items, but not enter any of the expiration information.
Test 5:
The top navigation bar in the sort items by A-Z and Expiration dates looked different and it makes it a little confusing. One had the
option to minus items and the other had a menu of display options.
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Enter Item Name Screen
Conclusion
Despite my effort to make this screen easier by showing the user more of the options of entering an items name, it completely
Activities confused the user. He was frustrated because he didn’t know what to push next. Apparently I made this screen overly complex in a
failed attempt to make it easier to know what to do. This page will need some serious revising.
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Refine the Edit Screen:
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The user was confused about the title “Total Quantity” and the “+” button on the right side of that line on the edit item screen. We
Activities discussed how the “+” button there doesn’t seem right and detours the user from clicking the quantities and expiration dates below.
Sort by Expiration:
The user assumed that since she didn’t see anything telling her that items expired today, this week or this month, all the items in
her food storage must not be expiring for at least 90 days. By making the default settings show all expiration periods, this incorrect
thinking will be cleared up.
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Make the Items look more click-able:
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The user took a little bit of time to find the edit option for the item. Perhaps by adding the green color to the “>” looking symbols,
Activities the user may think that by clicking there, they will be taken to another screen.
Add Color:
The user commented on how dull the colors were. He suggested that the app wasn’t so gray and maybe add more color in. I am
going to go through and add color to help the interface look more pleasant.
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