Aspop
8 Weeks | Speculative Design | Individual Project
The intense desire for food is uncontrollable when people are on a diet, what if a lollipop is low in calories and could help you control food cravings?
Background
Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight
45million
Americans go on a diet annually
126
kinds of diets per adult try on average
Data Analysis
Hospital Related Fears
95%
diet fails due to the trap of the dieting cycle, which people get caught in after repeated attempts at ‘dieting’ or restricting food intake to lose weight
The Diet Demography
The Dieting Cycle
Interview
The interview aims to gather the participants’ experience on a diet to see if they have any struggles or suggestions
Sharing personal experience
Activity One
Activity Two
Choosing a potential way
Select the most obsessed way to lower food cravings, and the lollipop (low calories snack) are chosen the most
Activity Three
Watching ASMR Videos
To observe participants’ behaviors through watching eating ASMR
Ideation
Facts
Why Helpful?
One will experience pleasant tingles while watching and hearing ASMR eating videos
Participants like the low calories snacks
Attain appetite fulfillment and lower food cravings
Not being guilty
Initial Idea
A Low calories lollipop set that satisfies your food cravings while dieting
The Workshop
Procedures
A workshop is conducted to allow the participants to experience the initial concept of Aspop to see how the idea could be implemented
Participants
Painpoints
Opportunities
Introducing Aspop
A low calories lollipop that satisfies food craving while dieting through the sound of ASMR
Aspop Anatomy
Instruction
The Business Plan
The Process
Making silicon molds
Making the Wand & Candy
Polish
Assemble Components