2. Feedback and Iteration

After receiving our first round of feedback in class, we re-visited our initial concept. We questioned the social complications of students carrying around the ambient keychain which could reveal if they were food insecure. Additionally, we had to consider the cost to manufacture multiple units of this product, which could be expensive to produce a keychain for each student. 

From here, we decided to shift our concept from individual product to a product that can be shared publically–which led us to the food campus map concept. As we thought through this, we wanted to be mindful of designing the map to be ambient–discrete yet informative; and to ensure that food insecure students were not singled out, as events shared on the food alert campus map would be open to everyone.