2018-19
UI/UX Atika Ajmera
KU MESS MANAGER
CONTENTS DOMAIN STUDY
9-10
STUDY OF INFORMATION SYSTEM
13-17
ANALYSING AND SYNTHESISING
20-21
DESIGN EXECUTION
24-29
Domain Study
Introduction ABOUT KU
Karnavati University (KU) is a State Private University dedicated to excellence in teaching and focused on interdisciplinary learning. Located in Uvarsad near Gandhinagar, KU was granted Private University status in March 2017 by the state of Gujarat through the Gujarat Private Universities Act, 2017. KU is one of the leading universities in Gujarat offering courses in the field of Design, Business, Law, Liberal Arts, Mass Communications and Dentistry. KU has been considered one of the top Universities that offer various courses in Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses since 2008. Five different colleges on one campus offer students many opportunities to think, explore and prepare for their role in a rapidly changing global environment. In addition to these opportunities, students can make use of research facilities and faculty expertise from related academic areas. Not only that, at KU, students will have a lifelong advantage, to stand up to intense competition, become globally mobile and connected with the right people for career success. In a short span of time, KU has made its name shine for its consistency of academic achievements in the areas of Higher Education.
KU MESS
Karnavati Mess feeds around 2000 kids,faculty and staff included per year. Each kid pays 50,000rs anually. The system that the mess follows is very simple. Every mess member has a mess card that they swipe to get the bill. They then show the bill to the faculty to get their food. The mess team is a very efficient groups of employs. They buy the ingredients daily and make fresh food everyday. The mess team changes and updates the menu every month to match the taste of every kid and send them to work with a happy tummy!
Study of Information System
Statistics
There are registered 1068 students who are mess members. Each student pays 50,000rs anually. The number of students who daily turn up to eat everyday are around 950 but the number varies according to the holidays and events. There are only around 600 students who come to mess during holidays and vacations. Wastage is a main problem for the mess and economy. Around 700kg(cooked and uncooked) food gets wasted daily. The mess has very efficient team who purchases around 500 ingredients. They buy the non perishable items weekly and the perishable items daily. The expenditure goes up to 30-40 lakhs per month with 10 lakh towards the electricity. There are around 120 mess employes. Total employ salary is 12 lakhs monthly. Mess’s yearly money earned is around 5crore but unfortunetly money spent is 7crores. The mess faces around 2 crores of loss every year.
Problems: Students:
Mess management team:
1. “aaj kya hai khane me?” - I guess this is one major hickup every faces. Every period, every conversation of every ku students started with “yaar, do you know what is there to eat?”!
1. WASTAGE!! -Wastage is the prime problem of the mess.
2. “Maybe if I know how my lunch with look like, I can make my mood to eat in the mess.” - As everyone knows, healthy food is the last thing a kid living in a hostel wants to eat. So only if they can quickly peek in how their plate will look, might help and attract them to come to the mess.
2. Kids lie and give their cards to non mess members, who comes to the mess for food. This hampers their means to business. 3. Maintanence
3. “Why mess? Why not brahmani everyday?”
4. Expected number of students don’t turn up. It is very difficult for them to keep an acocunt of people coming to eat. Hence, contries to more wastage.
4. “What nutrition am i getting?”
5. Security
5. Need an account of how many meals did every kid consume per month and an awareness on how much money gets wasted.
6. Need an online suggestion system - Mess tried to cater to every kid’s taste buds. Thus, includes a variety of food options for the kid to choose what to eat.
6. Suddenly if there’s a menu change, we need a way to inform everyone instantly. 7. “If i didn’t like what’s on the menu. what if i could cancel it!” - A way to inform the mess team that number of students coming for every meal because it varrys everyday but the food is made for everybody. This might contribute to prevention of food wastage.
Analysing and Synthesising
Problems Solving: The major areas my app is going to focus in solving the problem is: 1. The current mess system includes a mess card that each member has to swipe to get the bill. It creates a lot of chaos for standing in the line and all and also paper wastage. So i came up with the Scan system. The mess member enters the mess, scans and the date directly reaches the server and thus can take their food. 2. My second tab consists of the Mess Menu. It majorly solves the “Aaj khane me kya hai?� problem. If the menu is on the phone, one can instantly swipe up to get a quick look at the menu. My app also has a zoomed view of the menu and pictures. 3. The third feature is for the Meal Cancellation. One can cancel the meal 4hrs prior to the meal time. This gives a headsup to the mess team and they can cook the quantity accordingly. This will contribute to the prevention of food wastage. 4. The fourth feature is of the Monthly account. Every mess member pays around 50,000rs yearly but doesn’t go to the mess regularly. So i feel, that this is the most important feature as it gives an eye opener to every student that how much money are they exactly wasting every month. 5. My app has interesting graphics and is an attempt towards the contribution of major problem solving.
Design Execution
Initial Wireframe
Details of Interface
You can check your daily mess menu here.
You can cancel your meal 3 hours prior the mean time
You can check your monthly consumed meals here.
Scan this code everytime you enter the mess. The message from your user account will be directly encountered in the server room. Thus preventing chaos and wastage of paper. Now no que trouble.
You can check your daily mess menu here.
You can cancel your meal 3 hours prior the mean time
You can check your monthly consumed meals here.
Final Wireframing
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