Abhishek SahuUser Experience Designer, Bangalore

Kitchen Top

Overview of Slides

• Problem Statement• Brain Storming • Synthesis • Target User Definition • Scenarios • Biggest worries• Task Flows• Design / Wireframes • High fidelity Mockup• Other use cases around it• Other Design Options

Problem Statement

Family households today are often very chaotic places. Parents and children are coming and going at various times. There are chores that need to be done. Menus need to be planned, groceries need to be purchased, and meals need to be cooked. Everyone wants to chip in and help, but it can be challenging coordinating everything. Many times the kitchen ends up being the central point of interaction. Design an interface that a modern family can use in that space to orchestrate their busy lives.

Assumption1. Technology is not the limitation, proposed solution can use any futuristic

technologies and not tied-up with any specific platform etc. 2. Proposed solution can use possible sensor integrations. 3. It is assumed that internet connectivity / SMS etc can be used to connect any

devices. 4. High-fidelity mockup is static and non-interactive in nature due to limitation

of time.

Brain StormingBrainstorming: image below

Did some browsing on internet to find out some standard kitchen layouts, some kitchen management tips, needs, advices etc. Also browed some related apps as well.

SynthesisSynthesis of information collected during the brainstorming (image below)

Synthesis

5 Special Ingredients of a Excellent kitchen

kitchen

Safe

Hygienic

Inviting Plentiful

Organized

Synthesis

Biggest worries

Is Gas Stove left open?

Milk boiling or other burning stuff

Rotten Stuff

Groceries running off

Serving too hot or cold specially for kids

Menu Selection and options

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Targeted User

User SegmentTargeted user group family belongs to upper middle class society. They are active, logical and have good reputation in society.

Rational Aspirational

Less active/ social

Highly Active/social

Target Users

Persona

Family Persona: Sharma family belongs to upper middle class society. Mr. Sharma is senior manager in a software company and Mrs Sharma is taking care of her founded NGO. They have two kids both Girls, Studying in 12th and 9rd standard respectively. Though it’s a busy family but they have good bonding. Family has breakfast and dinner together in most possible cases. Mrs. Sharma loves cooking and in many cases cooks by herself with domestic help and sometime if kids have time they help as well. She is an organized lady and takes care of her home duty very well.

Potential Scenario 1

Mrs. Sharma gets up in the morning, does her daily ablutions and goes to the door to pickup milk packets and fresh breads dropped by vendors. She goes to Kitchen and puts the stuff there. She looks at the “Kitchen Top” and it shows what options are available to prepare breakfast. She selects available raw material options and it gives the relevant recipes to be prepared, listed by recently, popular and from her social network & friends. Mrs. Sharma selects most desirable one, which gives the ingredients of the recipe and their availability at home. She adds that in the Menu. In the Breakfast options she finds that Juice Packets are going to expire in next 2 days. Hence she takes them out for breakfast and also adds Juice in Grocery list as well.

Potential Scenario 2

Today Allen is late from office and alone at home as his wife has gone to kids school for some event. He gets into kitchen, looks at “Kitchen Top” and finds a note from his wife that they will have dinner in event itself. Now he looks at the options below for the dinner options. He finds that there are Mushrooms in fridge. He loves Mushrooms hence looks for some possible preparations. He finds some good and easy options to prepare to have with Breads suggested by his friend Rick also he finds that necessary ingredients are also there in home. Rick stays close-by so he invites him as well for the dinner with Beer. They had good time and posted some pictures on their social network.

How it works

“Kitchen top” can be installed with a dedicated device on different places of kitchen like “Kitchen Table” or on Refrigerator. The solution can be available on Tablets to install and use it in kitchen.

How it works

Central “Kitchen top” device will be connected with the sensors installed on different elements in kitchen to keep information updated.

Kitchen Top

Sensors on the container updates the quantity and

other information

Sensors installed on Stove for

safety

Sensors installed on Fridge to

update about freshness/Hygien

e etc.

Heat sensor on the screen to

display Hot and cold food items

Task flow

Sketches-Wireframes

High-fidelity Mockup

When there are no Alerts or Notes

High-fidelity Mockup

With Alerts or Notes

Other User Cases

How this solution can be extended to solve other issues too– This Central Device is connected with other devices and

can be synced by Internet or Bluetooth etc. – Entire Grocery list can be available on mobile phone as

well. – Solution can work without sensors but there it will be

lots of manual interaction with it and overall experience will not be upto the mark.

– Peripheral sensors can be connected to update about other appliances like Gas Burner/ hot plate burner, dishwasher cleaner / Refrigerators etc.

Other User Cases

– Kitchen Top kind of solution can work smartly if it has temperature sensors etc. So that when a very hot or cold object is served, it can reflect that there only when served.