What progress has your team made so far? Have any new ideas, questions, or challenges arisen from this work?

So far, our team has developed recipes for both the cake and the meringue filling based off of consumer preferences and results from the previous survey. By using the mode, (most popular answer/majority) we summarized and planned out the details for flavor, appearance, texture, price, and packaging. This was organized with Excel graphs as shown below.

Furthermore, we plan on testing our recipe in the kitchen soon, but are not sure if the recipe can be made in only one class. The surveys could also be biased as the choices are quite limited, therefore consumers might not write down their true opinion towards the question.

What progress have you and your group made on collecting data? How was it collected? How has that support your design choices?

Additionally, as the group member in charge of consumer surveys, I have created another survey focusing on the sensory details (appearance, aroma, texture, flavor…) of our product for consumers (classmates and teachers) to take while trying our first version of Fairy Pavingtons. This sensory taste test survey will help our group observe human reactions to the product determine factors and design choices which we will need to adjust to improve the overall experience of the dessert.

Have you worked on visual or financial modeling? If so, provide some insight into those processes.

So far, other teammates have designed models for the packaging of our dessert as well as picking out the labels, font, and color. Financial planning needs to be completed since the ingredients are already secured. The product can’t be too expensive for the income of our audience but also not too cheap as there is no profit. While the mode (highest number of votes) for the pricing was 20 RMB for 6 cakes, the average was 22.5 RMB. However, the actual pricing we decide on will need to acknowledge the labor and cost of ingredients in order to earn profit.