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MealEasy - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Coles
      - Woolworths
      - Aldi
      - IGA
      - Delivery
        
        Warehouse
    - - Cost per ingredient
      - Cost per bag
      - Cost of full meal
    - - Grams
      - Bags
  - - - Rural
      - City
    - - Gluten Free
      - Celiac
      - Vegan
      - Vegetarian
- - - - Age
        
        24
      - Gender
        
        Female
      - Position
        
        Part-time job
        
        Single mum
    - - Working part time with a baby in tow, makes enough money to provide for them both but finds the process to be extremely mentally taxing.
      - As such Lily is trying to remove as much needless concern from her life as possible. This means a dishwashing machine, laundry machine, automatic vacuum cleaner, and now a simple and nutritious meal plan that almost takes care of itself.
  - - - Age
      - Male
      - Full-time 9-5 job
    - - Working full time and earning enough money to meet his needs.
      - Despite being able to afford top of the shelf ingredients, as well as knowing his nutritional requirements. Terris finds meal preparation and planning to be tedious and therefore not worth the trouble.
      - Nonetheless his personal trainer pesters him daily on the importance of a diligent diet. So after a lot of work, Terris only reaffirmed his hate for meal prep and now is looking for an alternative.
  - - - Age
        
        26
      - Gender
        
        Female
      - Position
        
        Full-time uni student
        
        Part-time job
    - - She also lacks the time to investigate and plan for different meals or to consider the intake of vitamins and other nutrients.
      - As many other uni-students, Bietra is low on funds and finds the most difficult aspect of her money management to be meal planning.
      - Studying full time for university with a part-time job on the side to make income in order to meet expenses.
- - - - Usability Principles
        
        Accessibility: the consideration of all types of users, particularly those with some degree of disability or technical liability.
        
        Effectiveness: effectiveness concerns how easy and efficient the web app is in achieving its goal, notably includes the reliability of the web app
        
        Safety: The ability for users to recover from self-inflicted errors
        
        Utility: The “usefulness” of the web app - it’s ability to provide functionality to the user
        
        Learnability: How simple the system is to cater to a variety of user groups.
      - Elements of Visual Communication
        
        Pertaining to the aesthetic appeal of a user interface, the elements of visual communication include:
        
        Line, shape, tone, space, colour, form, scale/proportion, texture
      - Principles of Visual Communication
        
        Pertaining to the composition and distribution of information across a user interface, the principles of visual communication include:
        
        balance, contrast, proximity, harmony, alignment, hierarchy, repetition
- - - - Meals
        
        Genres
        
        Nutritional value
        
        Cost
      - Catalogue of recipes
        
        The recipes needed for the meals
        
        Specific amounts
        
        The user will be able to buy the exact amount of ingredients needed in order to not have left overs that will not be used. This will be because the ingredient portion sizes will be considered in the recipe.
        
        Where to find
        
        All easily found in one place on web app, assorted and neatly organised.
      - Ingredients and related recipes
        
        Which ingredients are in which recipes
        
        How much ingredients
      - Meal plans
        
        These will be set weekly plans that allocate meals to every slot of the day to maximize results for the user and minimize the effort
    - - Food types
      - Meal plans
      - Nutrients
      - Guides
      - User data
      - Favourites or popular meals
    - - Updating user info
      - Updating recipes
      - Changing ingredient amounts
- - - - Must be copyright free.
      - Must contain the steps to prepare recipe
      - Must have a well constructed UI prototype.
      - Must have a user table to store user login information.
      - Must have an ingredient table that appropriately interacts with the recipe table.
      - Must have a well compiled list of recipes.
      - Must be able to provide nutritional data.
    - - Offer a constructive solution to meal planning, and dieting.
      - Demonstrate the benefits to certain users with a calorie count.
      - Assist users in determining the nutritional value of their every meal.
      - Have an easily accessible interface that allows the user to maximise their time and effort, and get great results.
      - Interface should be intuitive and easy to follow.
- - - - Convenience
        
        Cheap
        
        Will attempt to select the cheapest but best for the price products that will benefit the user as positively as possible.
        
        Local
        
        Suggest places to acquire goods
        
        Will perhaps need too broad a database
        
        Where to find
        
        This may require a function that allows for google maps to be inserted.
      - Makes it easier to figure out what to eat
      - Removes that somewhat wasted time from someone's day that would otherwise be spent considering what meal to prepare