Lost & Found

The lost & found project is designed to be a potential new feature for Waze, an app providing real-time driving directions with live traffic updates.

This new feature allows Waze users to report their lost and/or found personal items and then mark them on the Waze map, which dramatically improves efficiency and accuracy compared to other solutions.

Futurator - a Redesign of refrigerator

Food waste is a widespread and increasingly urgent global problem. According to research in 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization estimates approximately 1/3 of food produced for human consumption, is lost or wasted annually. With recognizing the threat of food waste, UN targets a 50% reduction in consumer food waste by 2030. Led by the EPA, USDA and FDA, the U.S. Food Loss and Waste Reduction becomes the first-ever domestic goal to reduce food loss and waste, which seeks to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030.

We know that refrigerator is the major place for food storage at consumers' home. At the same time, it's also where food waste happens. Extant refrigerator products are very similar to each other:

• They are visually closed;
• They are always boxy so not easy to check and get food in the dark and deep corners;
• Their rooms and shelves are preset, even though some of them have 'flex zone' as advertised, users can hardly adjust it based on their own needs.

What if we make a new refrigerator with transparent doors so users can clearly see what they have inside? What if a refrigerator is in cylinder, not boxy anymore, so the user can put in and retrieve food easier? What if the whole storage room can be adjusted, not only the size but also the temperature for different foods, freely by the consumers? Even from a phone App?

In this project, I discovered these design possibilities on both the hardware and software side, to better preserve food for our tomorrow.