PROJECTS
SAVEOR
GO GREEN WITH SAVEOR
With a growing concern in mind, Saveor is a team passionate about the environment who decided to create a solution to eliminate food waste specifically within colleges, and provide alternative and affordable options to students. Saveor was created in 2022 as a way to create awareness among college students about food waste and provide them with a way to take action while saving money and lowering their climate change footprint - a smartphone app that links college students with on-campus and off-campus restaurants and retailers that have untouched surplus food for a lower price.
Originating as a final exam project, Saveor was a project birthed by myself and 3 of my peers in an effort to reduce college food waste and promote green eating habits.
Our assignment was vague: find a problem and solve it digitally.
I was part of a team of students from the University of Rochester with a shared concern in mind: food waste on college campuses. We created an app to address this issue by connecting students to local restaurants and college dining halls that have untouched surplus food for a lower price.
After deciding on food waste, we began the research process:
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Budget
Based on other food delivery apps (UberEats, Postmates, DoorDash)
$35k Customer app (production + maintenance)
$35k Merchant app (production + maintenance)
$1k-$5K for apps
PROCESS
Throughout the development of Saveor, we met several times a week outside of class to work on our logo, prototype, and website together.
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Brainstorm
During our first meeting, we came up with about 30 possible ideas. We then chose our top 3 and voted on which idea had the most potential
Sketches
After deciding to address food waste in our platform, we began sketching our prototyping process and received feedback on what information we could include in our website/mobile application.
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Prototyping & Website
Using Figma and Wix, I worked on the prototype of the mobile application and website.
Figma
A look into our Figma design process.
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Finalizing
While finalizing our website and prototype, we worked together to prepare for our presentation and deciding what information each person will share.
LOGO
After identifying our app’s characteristics, we created Saveor
"Saver"
"Savor"
"Save or"
"Saviour"
I created the logo in Illustrator with inspiration from Japanese bento boxes:
The tie stands for unity
The box stands for protection
The tongue sticking out stands for yummy
Why does Saveor matter? What can it do for users? Why should people download it?
Environment
By eliminating food waste, we reduce methane emissions from landfills and lowers individual carbon footprint. It conserves energy and resources, preventing pollution involved in the growing, manufacturing, transporting, and selling of food and hauling of food waste, to the landfill.
Cost
By eliminating food waste individuals save money by buying less food.
Community
By eliminating food waste individuals and businesses donate untouched surplus food to people who need it.
