Smart Cart: an app that helps users stay organized, reduce food waste, and simplify cooking with personalized recipe suggestions and seamless pantry tracking.
OVERVIEW
SmartCart is an AI-powered grocery shopping and meal-planning app that simplifies how people shop, cook, and manage their pantry. By offering barcode scanning, personalized recipe suggestions, and pantry-based meal ideas, SmartCart reduces stress, minimizes food waste, and makes meal planning effortless.
TYPE & TIMELINE
Personal Assistant Solution
4 weeks (Spring 2025)
ROLE
Branding
Concept Development
Logo Design
Visual Identity Creation
Prototype Design
TEAM
Solo Designer
TOOLS
Figma
Illustrator
Canva
Smart Cart: an app that helps users stay organized, reduce food waste, and simplify cooking with personalized recipe suggestions and seamless pantry tracking.
ROLE
Branding
Concept Development
Logo Design
Visual Identity Creation
Prototype Design
TEAM
Solo Designer
TYPE & TIMELINE
Personal Assistant Solution
4 weeks (Spring 2025)
TOOLS
Figma
Illustrator
Canva
OVERVIEW
SmartCart is an AI-powered grocery shopping and meal-planning app that simplifies how people shop, cook, and manage their pantry. By offering barcode scanning, personalized recipe suggestions, and pantry-based meal ideas, SmartCart reduces stress, minimizes food waste, and makes meal planning effortless.
Smart Cart: an app that helps users stay organized, reduce food waste, and simplify cooking with personalized recipe suggestions and seamless pantry tracking.
OVERVIEW
Dressing growing children can be a stressful and costly experience for parents, with kids quickly outgrowing their clothes and leaving behind cluttered closets. Sprout & Sparkle is here to change that. Our subscription-based clothing rental service offers stylish, high-quality outfits for children, empowering parents with a smarter, more sustainable solution. By renting instead of buying, parents can save time, money, and reduce waste—all while letting their kids shine in outfits they love.
ROLE
Branding
Concept Development
Logo Design
Visual Identity Creation
Prototype Design
TEAM
Solo Designer
TYPE & TIMELINE
Personal Assistant
Solution
4 weeks (Spring 2025)
TOOLS
Figma
Illustrator
Canva
BACKGROUND
In today’s fast-paced world, many people struggle with grocery shopping and meal planning due to decision fatigue, food waste, budget constraints, and time limitations. While AI and digital tools have started to reshape how consumers shop for food, existing solutions often require too much manual input or lack integration between shopping, pantry management, and meal planning. Smart Cart was created to bridge this gap, providing a seamless, AI-powered experience that simplifies the way people shop, cook, and manage their groceries.
CHALLENGE
One of the key challenges Smart Cart faces is encouraging users to shift from traditional grocery shopping and meal planning habits to an AI-driven system. Many consumers still rely on handwritten lists, mental tracking of pantry items, or separate apps for shopping and recipes, making adoption a potential hurdle. Additionally, ensuring that Smart Cart’s AI delivers truly personalized and useful meal suggestions without overwhelming users is crucial. Accuracy in barcode scanning and real-time pantry updates is another challenge that must be addressed to create a frictionless experience.
OPPORTUNITY
With AI becoming more integrated into everyday life, Smart Cart has the opportunity to revolutionize grocery shopping and meal planning. By offering smart, real-time inventory tracking, users can minimize food waste and save money. Seamless integration with grocery stores can allow for one-click shopping and personalized meal recommendations, making meal planning effortless. SmartCart can also cater to dietary preferences and nutrition goals, providing a customized experience that encourages healthier eating habits. With a focus on convenience, personalization, and sustainability, Smart Cart has the potential to transform meal planning into a stress-free, engaging, and waste-free experience—helping users shop smarter, cook easier, and live better.
MISSION STATEMENT
Smart Cart empowers users to shop smarter, cook easier, and reduce food waste by providing AI-driven grocery planning, personalized meal suggestions, and effortless pantry management.
VISION
To inspire healthier, stress-free lifestyles by transforming grocery shopping and meal planning into a seamless, engaging, and waste-free experience.
BACKGROUND
In today’s fast-paced world, many people struggle with grocery shopping and meal planning due to decision fatigue, food waste, budget constraints, and time limitations. While AI and digital tools have started to reshape how consumers shop for food, existing solutions often require too much manual input or lack integration between shopping, pantry management, and meal planning. Smart Cart was created to bridge this gap, providing a seamless, AI-powered experience that simplifies the way people shop, cook, and manage their groceries.
CHALLENGE
One of the key challenges Smart Cart faces is encouraging users to shift from traditional grocery shopping and meal planning habits to an AI-driven system. Many consumers still rely on handwritten lists, mental tracking of pantry items, or separate apps for shopping and recipes, making adoption a potential hurdle. Additionally, ensuring that Smart Cart’s AI delivers truly personalized and useful meal suggestions without overwhelming users is crucial. Accuracy in barcode scanning and real-time pantry updates is another challenge that must be addressed to create a frictionless experience.
OPPORTUNITY
With AI becoming more integrated into everyday life, Smart Cart has the opportunity to revolutionize grocery shopping and meal planning. By offering smart, real-time inventory tracking, users can minimize food waste and save money. Seamless integration with grocery stores can allow for one-click shopping and personalized meal recommendations, making meal planning effortless. SmartCart can also cater to dietary preferences and nutrition goals, providing a customized experience that encourages healthier eating habits. With a focus on convenience, personalization, and sustainability, Smart Cart has the potential to transform meal planning into a stress-free, engaging, and waste-free experience—helping users shop smarter, cook easier, and live better.
MISSION STATEMENT
Smart Cart empowers users to shop smarter, cook easier, and reduce food waste by providing AI-driven grocery planning, personalized meal suggestions, and effortless pantry management.
VISION
To inspire healthier, stress-free lifestyles by transforming grocery shopping and meal planning into a seamless, engaging, and waste-free experience.
SOLUTION
Introducing Smart Cart.
An app that helps users stay organized, reduce food waste, and simplify cooking with personalized recipe suggestions and seamless pantry tracking.
KEY FEATURES
List Creation
Barcode Scan
Recipe Book
Pantry Inventory
BACKGROUND
In today’s fast-paced world, many people struggle with grocery shopping and meal planning due to decision fatigue, food waste, budget constraints, and time limitations. While AI and digital tools have started to reshape how consumers shop for food, existing solutions often require too much manual input or lack integration between shopping, pantry management, and meal planning. Smart Cart was created to bridge this gap, providing a seamless, AI-powered experience that simplifies the way people shop, cook, and manage their groceries.
CHALLENGE
One of the key challenges Smart Cart faces is encouraging users to shift from traditional grocery shopping and meal planning habits to an AI-driven system. Many consumers still rely on handwritten lists, mental tracking of pantry items, or separate apps for shopping and recipes, making adoption a potential hurdle. Additionally, ensuring that Smart Cart’s AI delivers truly personalized and useful meal suggestions without overwhelming users is crucial. Accuracy in barcode scanning and real-time pantry updates is another challenge that must be addressed to create a frictionless experience.
OPPORTUNITY
With AI becoming more integrated into everyday life, Smart Cart has the opportunity to revolutionize grocery shopping and meal planning. By offering smart, real-time inventory tracking, users can minimize food waste and save money. Seamless integration with grocery stores can allow for one-click shopping and personalized meal recommendations, making meal planning effortless. SmartCart can also cater to dietary preferences and nutrition goals, providing a customized experience that encourages healthier eating habits. With a focus on convenience, personalization, and sustainability, Smart Cart has the potential to transform meal planning into a stress-free, engaging, and waste-free experience—helping users shop smarter, cook easier, and live better.
MISSION STATEMENT
Smart Cart empowers users to shop smarter, cook easier, and reduce food waste by providing AI-driven grocery planning, personalized meal suggestions, and effortless pantry management.
VISION
To inspire healthier, stress-free lifestyles by transforming grocery shopping and meal planning into a seamless, engaging, and waste-free experience.
BACKGROUND
In today’s fast-paced world, many people struggle with grocery shopping and meal planning due to decision fatigue, food waste, budget constraints, and time limitations. While AI and digital tools have started to reshape how consumers shop for food, existing solutions often require too much manual input or lack integration between shopping, pantry management, and meal planning. Smart Cart was created to bridge this gap, providing a seamless, AI-powered experience that simplifies the way people shop, cook, and manage their groceries.
CHALLENGE
One of the key challenges Smart Cart faces is encouraging users to shift from traditional grocery shopping and meal planning habits to an AI-driven system. Many consumers still rely on handwritten lists, mental tracking of pantry items, or separate apps for shopping and recipes, making adoption a potential hurdle. Additionally, ensuring that Smart Cart’s AI delivers truly personalized and useful meal suggestions without overwhelming users is crucial. Accuracy in barcode scanning and real-time pantry updates is another challenge that must be addressed to create a frictionless experience.
OPPORTUNITY
With AI becoming more integrated into everyday life, Smart Cart has the opportunity to revolutionize grocery shopping and meal planning. By offering smart, real-time inventory tracking, users can minimize food waste and save money. Seamless integration with grocery stores can allow for one-click shopping and personalized meal recommendations, making meal planning effortless. SmartCart can also cater to dietary preferences and nutrition goals, providing a customized experience that encourages healthier eating habits. With a focus on convenience, personalization, and sustainability, Smart Cart has the potential to transform meal planning into a stress-free, engaging, and waste-free experience—helping users shop smarter, cook easier, and live better.
MISSION STATEMENT
Smart Cart empowers users to shop smarter, cook easier, and reduce food waste by providing AI-driven grocery planning, personalized meal suggestions, and effortless pantry management.
VISION
To inspire healthier, stress-free lifestyles by transforming grocery shopping and meal planning into a seamless, engaging, and waste-free experience.
SOLUTION
Introducing Smart Cart.
An app that helps users stay organized, reduce food waste, and simplify cooking with personalized recipe suggestions and seamless pantry tracking.
An app that helps users stay organized, reduce food waste, and simplify cooking with personalized recipe suggestions and seamless pantry tracking.
KEY FEATURES
List Creation
Barcode Scan
Recipe Book
Pantry Inventory
List Creation
Users can create and organize multiple lists based on their needs, such as grocery shopping, meal prep, or household essentials. Lists can be customized, shared with others, and easily updated to ensure nothing gets forgotten. Additionally, users can add items directly from their pantry inventory or recipe pages, making shopping and planning more seamless.
Barcode Scanner
When a user scans an item in the store, the app instantly checks if it’s already in their pantry. If the item is found, a pop-up notification appears with options to find recipes using that ingredient, check its expiration date, or restock it anyway. Additionally, scanning a barcode provides instant recipe ideas, helping users discover new meal options on the spot. They can also save recipes for later, add the scanned ingredient to their grocery list, or find a suitable substitute if the item is unavailable.
Recipe Book
Users can easily sort recipes by breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and dessert. Once a category is selected, users can filter recipes further by time, rating, and food type, making it simple to find the perfect meal. Additionally, users can access their favorited recipes for quick reference to their go-to dishes.
Pantry Inventory
Users can easily add items to their pantry by scanning a barcode or entering them manually. Once items are added, they can select specific ingredients to generate recipes or use their entire pantry to discover meal ideas. The feature also tracks expiration dates and allows users to update when an item is empty, ensuring they always have a well-stocked and organized kitchen.
KEY FEATURES
List Creation
Barcode Scan
Recipe Book
Pantry Inventory
List Creation
Users can create and organize multiple lists based on their needs, such as grocery shopping, meal prep, or household essentials. Lists can be customized, shared with others, and easily updated to ensure nothing gets forgotten. Additionally, users can add items directly from their pantry inventory or recipe pages, making shopping and planning more seamless.
Barcode Scanner
When a user scans an item in the store, the app instantly checks if it’s already in their pantry. If the item is found, a pop-up notification appears with options to find recipes using that ingredient, check its expiration date, or restock it anyway. Additionally, scanning a barcode provides instant recipe ideas, helping users discover new meal options on the spot. They can also save recipes for later, add the scanned ingredient to their grocery list, or find a suitable substitute if the item is unavailable.
Recipe Book
Users can easily sort recipes by breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and dessert. Once a category is selected, users can filter recipes further by time, rating, and food type, making it simple to find the perfect meal. Additionally, users can access their favorited recipes for quick reference to their go-to dishes.
Pantry Inventory
Users can easily add items to their pantry by scanning a barcode or entering them manually. Once items are added, they can select specific ingredients to generate recipes or use their entire pantry to discover meal ideas. The feature also tracks expiration dates and allows users to update when an item is empty, ensuring they always have a well-stocked and organized kitchen.
List Creation
Users can create and organize multiple lists based on their needs, such as grocery shopping, meal prep, or household essentials. Lists can be customized, shared with others, and easily updated to ensure nothing gets forgotten. Additionally, users can add items directly from their pantry inventory or recipe pages, making shopping and planning more seamless.
Barcode Scanner
When a user scans an item in the store, the app instantly checks if it’s already in their pantry. If the item is found, a pop-up notification appears with options to find recipes using that ingredient, check its expiration date, or restock it anyway. Additionally, scanning a barcode provides instant recipe ideas, helping users discover new meal options on the spot. They can also save recipes for later, add the scanned ingredient to their grocery list, or find a suitable substitute if the item is unavailable.
Recipe Book
Users can easily sort recipes by breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and dessert. Once a category is selected, users can filter recipes further by time, rating, and food type, making it simple to find the perfect meal. Additionally, users can access their favorited recipes for quick reference to their go-to dishes.
Pantry Inventory
Users can easily add items to their pantry by scanning a barcode or entering them manually. Once items are added, they can select specific ingredients to generate recipes or use their entire pantry to discover meal ideas. The feature also tracks expiration dates and allows users to update when an item is empty, ensuring they always have a well-stocked and organized kitchen.
REFLECTION
Smart Cart was born from a class assignment where I was tasked with designing a personal assistant to solve a real problem in my classmate’s life. Through an initial interview, I discovered his biggest struggles: a lack of meal inspiration, difficulty tracking pantry items, and impulse purchases that didn’t lead to complete meals. Beyond that, grocery shopping itself felt overwhelming and uninspiring—more of a chore than an enjoyable activity.
With these insights, I developed Smart Cart, an AI-powered grocery shopping and meal-planning app designed to simplify cooking, minimize food waste, and enhance meal planning. I mapped out a user persona, identified key pain points, and ideated solutions that would create a seamless shopping and cooking experience. Features like barcode scanning for personalized recipe suggestions and a pantry-based meal planner emerged directly from these insights, making grocery shopping feel more intuitive rather than just functional.
Beyond UX/UI design, I also developed the branding for Smart Cart, creating a logo, color palette, and visual identity that reflected the app’s convenience, efficiency, and modern feel. I wanted the brand to feel fresh, approachable, and smart—something that made meal planning feel less like a hassle and more like an empowering tool.
Throughout the process, I took an iterative approach—sketching wireframes, creating interactive prototypes in Figma, and refining the design through user testing. This project reinforced my belief that great design starts with deep user understanding and continuous iteration. By prioritizing research, branding, and usability, I was able to craft a solution that not only met a real need but also reimagined the grocery shopping experience to be more engaging, intuitive, and enjoyable.
REFLECTION
Smart Cart was born from a class assignment where I was tasked with designing a personal assistant to solve a real problem in my classmate’s life. Through an initial interview, I discovered his biggest struggles: a lack of meal inspiration, difficulty tracking pantry items, and impulse purchases that didn’t lead to complete meals. Beyond that, grocery shopping itself felt overwhelming and uninspiring—more of a chore than an enjoyable activity.
With these insights, I developed Smart Cart, an AI-powered grocery shopping and meal-planning app designed to simplify cooking, minimize food waste, and enhance meal planning. I mapped out a user persona, identified key pain points, and ideated solutions that would create a seamless shopping and cooking experience. Features like barcode scanning for personalized recipe suggestions and a pantry-based meal planner emerged directly from these insights, making grocery shopping feel more intuitive rather than just functional.
Beyond UX/UI design, I also developed the branding for Smart Cart, creating a logo, color palette, and visual identity that reflected the app’s convenience, efficiency, and modern feel. I wanted the brand to feel fresh, approachable, and smart—something that made meal planning feel less like a hassle and more like an empowering tool.
Throughout the process, I took an iterative approach—sketching wireframes, creating interactive prototypes in Figma, and refining the design through user testing. This project reinforced my belief that great design starts with deep user understanding and continuous iteration. By prioritizing research, branding, and usability, I was able to craft a solution that not only met a real need but also reimagined the grocery shopping experience to be more engaging, intuitive, and enjoyable.
REFLECTION
Smart Cart was born from a class assignment where I was tasked with designing a personal assistant to solve a real problem in my classmate’s life. Through an initial interview, I discovered his biggest struggles: a lack of meal inspiration, difficulty tracking pantry items, and impulse purchases that didn’t lead to complete meals. Beyond that, grocery shopping itself felt overwhelming and uninspiring—more of a chore than an enjoyable activity.
With these insights, I developed Smart Cart, an AI-powered grocery shopping and meal-planning app designed to simplify cooking, minimize food waste, and enhance meal planning. I mapped out a user persona, identified key pain points, and ideated solutions that would create a seamless shopping and cooking experience. Features like barcode scanning for personalized recipe suggestions and a pantry-based meal planner emerged directly from these insights, making grocery shopping feel more intuitive rather than just functional.
Beyond UX/UI design, I also developed the branding for Smart Cart, creating a logo, color palette, and visual identity that reflected the app’s convenience, efficiency, and modern feel. I wanted the brand to feel fresh, approachable, and smart—something that made meal planning feel less like a hassle and more like an empowering tool.
Throughout the process, I took an iterative approach—sketching wireframes, creating interactive prototypes in Figma, and refining the design through user testing. This project reinforced my belief that great design starts with deep user understanding and continuous iteration. By prioritizing research, branding, and usability, I was able to craft a solution that not only met a real need but also reimagined the grocery shopping experience to be more engaging, intuitive, and enjoyable.
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