New Speculative Design Project on Fast, Healthy Dinners

We all know that cooking dinner is tough, especially for people with busy lives. It’s no wonder that we turn to DoorDash or pick up a prepared, ready-to-eat meal. But what if we could make it easier to cook? And faster, and more fun? That’s the challenge we gave to a team of graduate students from the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington for a capstone project in which they are developing a speculative design for a service that makes it easy to cook fast, healthy dinners at home. Check out the project, and their first work product — a report on their initial research — here.