Look into the latest dining habit and the meals portion of office lady

Client: Prolific
Keywords: Product Design, Product Development

THE CHALLENGE

Healthy eating habit have become a trend towards office ladies, according to this, their meal portion has a huge change.

Understanding the new eating habit and trend will be important to come up with a lunch box that fit for trendy office ladies. Design on lunch box need to be modified in order to adapt to the behavior change & daily usage.

THE OUTCOME

A double-deck slim body lunch box has been designed to fit for the new dining habit for this group of people with everything they need and portion customization for different appetite.

DISCOVERY

The new healthy eating portion for office ladies

According to longer working hours and less exercise, many office ladies are in concern of their body shape and health. Most of them would start with diet or at less eat healthily.

They would reduce the portion of main dish and increase the portion on vegetables or fruits, mostly in a ration of 6:4. Some people may even replace the main dish with vegetables or fruits only.

Therefore, we have to customize the lunch box portion and take personalization into the design with a level of flexibility in order to fit for varieties of personal needs.

IDEATION & DESIGN

In right portion with a level of flexibility

Double-deck design with a set of utensils will be decided to put into the design.

Different deck were plan to use as a portion indication while also provide a level of flexibility for people’s different daily appetite, a careful measurement on the size and capacity of upper, lower deck and also the utensil container for an integrated well-function lunch box will be needed.

Easy to carry and place saving after use

Office ladies normally carry their lunch box to office with a paper bag, a small keep warm bag or directly put into their handbag. Therefore, the lunch box will be better to be slim and able to reduce the space occupation after use.

Therefore, apart from stack up the lunch box to make it slimmer, one deck should be able to hide into another deck and make it a smaller piece in order to save place after use.

IMPLEMENTATION

• Double-deck Fancy Lunch Box

Designed to adapt everyday healthy meal’s need

A double-deck lunch box has been designed to fit for different dining habit for healthy eating office ladies.

The lunch box contains three main parts, upper deck – main dish container, lower deck – side dish container and a utensils container come with a full set of utensils – a knife, a fork and a spoon. The utensils container can go either with upper deck or lower deck, user may bring a light meal or full set of meal according to their appetite or diet plan. Moreover, the lower deck and utensils container able to hide into the upper deck in order to save place for the bag after use.

Different containers were easily align with one another thanks for the simple wave shape and dots in 4 corners at the bottom. The product was carefully selected with combination of muted colors which easy to go with everyday different trendy style.