BANGOR GREEN

Maeve, Claudio, John & Bobby

Project Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1605viohKWXYWYMHqQ0d7G7Yzb9ATb2T-A3ZjD9nTlpE/edit?usp=sharing

This app inspects businesses for their environmental impact and gives a letter grade based on five criteria:

1. Establishment Sustainability (How friendly is the building itself and the practices within)

2. Carbon Emissions
3.  Sourced Goods
4. Waste Disposal
5. Transparency 

This app would help environmentally conscious customers find like-minded businesses and avoid excessively harmful ones that might not be otherwise so forthcoming with their own environmental data. This system can also reward environmentally-conscious businesses by promoting them more than an app like Yelp would.

Just as restaurants have to have routine health inspections, we hope this app would hypothetically start a similar trend among general commerce in regards to eco-friendliness and sustainability.

1. Empathize: Who is your user? Who else will the sourcing, making, transportation, or waste for this project impact and can you mitigate this?

Our targeted users are those who are interested in the products they are buying/consuming and the businesses that they’re supporting. As someone who lives far out of state, I think this will benefit those who are traveling a lot, as they don’t know about the different restaurants in the area. This will allow those who are traveling to find healthy, clean restaurants and businesses much faster than having to read and search online about them. Not only will it help the users, but it will also help the businesses themselves. This app can be used to promote how healthy and clean a company is, it allows others to see how they are helping the earth, and also may encourage other businesses to do so as well.

Define: What are the user’s needs?  Does the need addressed by this product also address other basic human needs mentioned by Hari, Maslow, or Center for Humane Tech?  Pick one or more of these rubrics and show how your design uses best practices

First, this includes physiological needs as it shows healthy foods and products that can help keep us fueled and healthy. It helps us find substantial necessities. This also ties into Hari’s basic needs of shelter, food, air, water. The app considers all of those aspects and makes sure the sources are clean and reliable.

Ideate: Brainstorm a rich array of possible directions the project could take. Think outside the box. Surprise us.

Different ideas we had considered:

• Just for Bangor or everywhere — we hope this app grows to multiple locations
• Should we use letter grades or percentages– letter grades
• Should this be incorporating all different aspects of the building or just food/products — we included building sustainability as well
• Restaurants or all types of buildings– we focused on food as restaurants have many more concerns about health and environmental impacts.

Prototype: Create a visible or tangible representation of your project. You can use any tech you have learned so far–Adobe products, photos, Adobe Spark, Web gallery, etc You might even consider Adobe XD (free) id you want to mock-up an App.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1605viohKWXYWYMHqQ0d7G7Yzb9ATb2T-A3ZjD9nTlpE/edit?usp=sharing

When first presented to the lab, we had to change the original prototype to make it more accessible and we wanted to make it much more straight forward. This is where we implemented the letter grades on the websites. This is much more beneficial as it’s easy to understand, easy to see and find. You also don’t need the app to see it right away, but the app will lead you to more information.

web and app mockup