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Dough is a web application that helps you manage your food and your food budget. You can track foods you've purchased, see when your foods are about to expire, look at how much you've spend on food, and find recipes tailored to your food supply. It is built to help you get the most out of your food purchases.
Scenario Tasks.
- It's Wednesday, March 16th. Your vegan friend Bobby is coming over tonight for dinner. You log in to Dough to check what you can make.#*
- Go to the Dough website and check what food you currently have.
- Your face falls and you sigh dramatically when you realize you don't have anything Bobby can eat. Looks like you need to make a trip to Shaws.
- Check your budget to see how much you have left to spend on your trip to Shaws.
- Wandering joyously up and down the aisles at Shaws you find broccoli, whole grain rice, and tofu. You buy the three items for $12.45.
- Add your food on the Dough site, recording when you bought it, where you're putting it (broccoli + tofu go in the fridge and rice goes in the cabinet), and how much the total purchase cost.
- As dinner approaches, you realize you can't just serve Bobby raw broccoli and rice.You need a recipe for some dish.
- Use Dough to search for dinner recipes you can make with your new foods that Bobby can eat. Since your carrots are going to expire soon, make sure the recipe contains carrots.
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- Didn't use tabs to access food page, used manage food link from splash screen.
- Had some confusion analyzing information on the budget page. "I have $258 dollars for a week?... month?". When asked to find their weekly allowance (stated in text below the progress bar), it took them quite a bit of time. When they finally found it they said, "Oh... I didn't read that". It may be good to represent both the weekly and monthly budget visually.
- No hesitation when going to the food page to add food.
- Not enough categories of food for user.
- Comment about auto-complete: "That's very complicated".
- Didn't specify dinner when searching for food.
User 3:
- Didn't use tabs to access food page - used manage food link from splash screen
- Tried to click on all food
- Was able to read the text on the budget page without a problem and knows she can spend $65 this week.
- Confusion about adding cost of purchase. User thought it should be on the add food window, but kept going anyway and then saw it. There should be more visibility about how purchase costs are added.
- User remembered to check dinner as one of the options for searching for recipe. Overall seemed to find the recipe search page intuitive.