These products are meant to be a collaboration between us and a partnering school, such that the nutritional capabilities of the college and needs of the students inform our service. As such, we hope to further develop our product and start/continue to work alongside interested universities to see how we can best enrich the collegiate nutrition information space.
Our cards live within the dining hall - for each meal, corresponding cards are generated for each dish as based off of their main ingredients and a health benefit database, then placed accordingly to allow students to make fast and guided food choices.
Each card includes the dish's name, ingredients, allergens and dietary information, health benefits as determined by ingredients, and a QR that scans the dish into the app (to add to favorites).
Our app allows students to further utilize the information presented by our dining cards, designed to be conveniently located within Stanford Mobile.
When logging on for the first time, students go through onboarding: reading about the system, filling out allergens and dietary preferences, and selecting initial health goals, which can be changed at any time. Once finished, students get access to their own home page, which has a dining hall menu search option (for both specials and standard dishes), a favorite dishes list, a recommended dishes list (as determined by favorite dishes and health goals), and a link to their profile. If interested in a specific dish, a student can click on the dish to read about not only its ingredients and allergens, but the specific health goals that the dish are best suited towards and the individual ingredients that cement them as such. To see their own information, students can go to their profile, where they can see nutrition breakdowns of their goals and their progress towards them, by both day and week.
Although we were not able to build out full functionality during the span of our class, we hope to continue to develop our app in the future!
If you're interested in trying it yourself, follow this Figma link!