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Appendix F: Additional
Recommendations
“Add New Recipe” Page
We highly recommend that GastroMighty:
• Change “Location” to “Grocery Aisle” or “Grocery Section”
• Add more options to the drop-down “Location” menu, like paper products, pharmacy, health and
beauty, seasonal, household products, seasonal items, cereal, and snack food.
• Allow users to add their own categories to the “Location” menu.
• Auto-populate or offer suggestions for the “Location” of ingredients.
• Provide both abbreviations and the full text for less knowledgeable users.
• Allow users to mark their own recipes as favorites from within the add recipe page.
• Remove “This Week’s Meal Plan” from this page. Users were confused by the appearance of this
on the “My Saved Recipes” page.
“Edit Shopping List” Page
We suggest GastroMighty make the following changes:
• Add the ability to cross out an entire section on the grocery shopping list
• Add the ability to move sections and ingredients around (like users can with the ingredients on
the “Add New Recipe” page). The ability to group certain items will help users adapt the system
to their everyday behaviors.
• Do not require users to select a location for the items they add to their list.
• Add more options to the drop-down “Location” menu, like paper products, pharmacy, health and
beauty, seasonal, household products, seasonal items, cereal, and snack food.
• Allow users to add their own categories to the “Location” menu.
• Automate the entry of “Location” so users do not need to input this information.
• Allow users to log out of the mobile system.
• Rework the mobile interface so the difference between crossing out and removing items is clear
to users. We did not do enough usability testing on this aspect to make any specific
recommendations.
• When users pressed the “Cancel” button, they were taken to the homepage. Our participants
thought this button (despite the reset button) would just clear all the information they had
entered.
• Add a pop-up warning the user what they are about to do.
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