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

We got results back from survey which helped us come up with new ideas to develop our product. Some challenges we ran into was from the survey, people said they would most likely find this product in a restaurant, in second place we got theme parks, and 2 places tied which were stores & night markets.  So we’ll have to narrow down our ideas for the ideal place to sell our food product. A new idea that I may be interested in focusing on besides packaging is the experience when receiving the food. If I end up working on packaging for soup dumplings for a restaurant, I would be more focused on the presentation of the food, so that the customers have a creative, memorable experience. Some ideas on presentation of food is by using a mini escalator or elevator. In some sushi restaurants they have conveyor belts where customers can grab the sushi, I had a similar idea expect with an escalator. Each step on mini escalator would have a little plate/bowl with a soup dumpling with  varying in flavors. This is just an idea though, so in the end this may be left behind for a different project if plans change.

•What progress have you and your group made on collecting data?
As an individual, I’ve made progress on packaging ideas of the food product and thought of different ways we can advertise the food through the data we collected from survey results.  Our group has done pretty well, we’ve got the top 3 flavors Chicken noodle soup, Alphabet soup and Onion soup.
•How was it collected?
This data was collected through a series of questions people answered in the survey Britannia created. My personal progress was collected when I sketched out my ideas for packaging on white board and took a picture so I can update or add on new ideas.
•How has that supported your design choices?
The survey was very useful when it came to design choices due to now knowing how many soup dumplings customers would prefer along with pricing. So as I create the packaging, I can add these to my design choice. According to results from survey, customers preferred packs of 6 dumplings
•Have you worked on visual or financial modelling? If so, provide some insight into those processes.
I’ve worked mainly with visual modeling due to my focus being on advertising the product. Better ways I have found so I can advertise my product in more productive ways is by finding the main target audience, what locations they’re likely to go to and what portions and flavors they are interested in.