Ensure you’ve reflected on data collection and visual/financial modeling completed by the team.

  • In the financial model, the material cost is shown as the price bought in bulk and after a discount. This ensures that we profit most from selling our product and minimizing material costs.
  • The materials that cost the most are peanut butter and the dumpling skins. I was unable to find peanut butter sold in bulk through various websites and shops, which meant that we could not push the cost down for the peanut butter+chocolate flavored dumplings.
  • The dumpling skins in the model were the cheapest premade skins I could find online and offline. We have considered making our own dumpling skins for our product, but that meant more time and effort spent making each dumpling, so we gave up on the idea and stuck with premade dumpling skins.
  • Both models use data from surveys that were sent out before.

Do you feel that your product has met the goal you set at the start of the process? Did design choices still fit your target audience? What would you do if you had more time or resources?

  • I would say that our group was successful overall. I think the intended consumers have shifted from an international market to a more American market; however, our aim has not entirely shifted. The three final flavors we decided on are more American-based: Pizza, cookies and cream, and peanut butter+chocolate. Even though the three flavors are directed to the American market, pizza is an Italian food, which still connects to the international food part of our original goal. If we had more time, we would develop different flavors from different regions of the world to satisfy the international market. We might also continue with the dessert dumpling sauce idea and create a sauce that would fit our dumplings. We dropped the idea of different textured dumpling skin at the beginning of our project. If we had more time, I believe it would be nice to pick up the idea and have a mochi-textured dumpling skin for the Japanese market or a crunchy taco shell dumpling skin for the Mexican market.

How would you evaluate your contribution to the team? Anything you’d like to work on in terms of teamwork?

  • I have made my contributions, and so has everyone else in the group. We all complete the jobs according to our roles. As a team, we have done well; however, I think we could have worked better together. We spent most of our time working on our own tasks and rarely cooperated with each other. Although we all had specific tasks we were working on, I believe our project would have been better if we worked more as a group instead of individually.