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Inventory app for the campus food pantry

The pantry tracked stock on paper and routinely ran short on staples without warning.

StatusActive
PartnerNIC Food Pantry
Team4 students · 1 faculty
Project hero — 2400×1350

The brief

The pantry tracked stock on paper and routinely ran short on staples without warning.

[Placeholder] Expand on the framing — who was affected, what was at stake, and why this challenge made it onto the X-Labs wall.

The approach

[Placeholder] Walk through how the team moved the work through Listen → Define → Ideate → Build → Test → Share. Call out the empathy interviews they ran, the prototypes they tried, and the moments the brief changed shape.

Detail — process
Detail — artifact

The outcome

A working low-stock dashboard in pilot use; restock trips dropped from reactive to planned.

[Placeholder] Quantify the impact, name the people who used what shipped, and quote the partner saying it mattered.

In context — installed / published / shipped

Project details

Partner
NIC Food Pantry
Disciplines
Computer & Information Technology, Business
Team
4 students · 1 faculty
Skills used
Web Development, UX Design, Data Analysis
Status
Active
Category
Technology