Pantry Pal: Designing an App to Help with Household Inventory

Abstract

For my graphic design senior project, I wanted to solve a communication problem that would be helpful and add convenience to my and others’ everyday lives. During the time of brainstorming ideas, I was trying to plan for groceries and make sure I was not adding food to the list that I already had in my cabinets, which gave me inspiration for the idea of solving the communication issue common in households of remembering what you already have your cabinets or pantry. In response, I wanted to design an app for smartphones to inform the user of the consumable goods in their household, leading to the creation of Pantry Pal. Pantry Pal is an application designed to give households a shared organized digital cabinet of all their groceries to prevent them from buying duplicates of products and prevent food waste because the users will always have access to the contents of their cabinets.