Food Donation MVP Design Sprint for Goodr Food Rescue

Product Overview

Goodr is a social enterprise tackling food waste and hunger. I ran a design sprint to shape their initial donation logistics app to help scale operations.

• Facilitated full design sprint from idea to testable prototype.
• Collaborated with the founder and a small team under tight constraints.
• Defined and validated MVP scope for food donation logistics.
• Aligned user research with real-world distribution and partner needs.
• Delivered a clear, fundable product direction.

Product Goals

How might we turn food waste into food justice through a scalable, tech-enabled platform?

Goodr needed to move quickly from vision to product. The goal was to validate a logistics MVP that connected surplus food donors with recipient organizations -- starting with a design sprint.

• Define the highest-impact workflows to test in MVP.
• Ensure feasibility with a lean team and limited dev time.
• Create a compelling prototype to secure stakeholder buy-in.
• Keep mission clarity at the heart of product decisions.

Challenges

• Extremely short timeline.
• No existing product infrastructure or roadmap.
• Founder-led team balancing operations and vision.
• High emotional and mission-driven stakes.

Solutions

• Delivered a validated prototype that could be pitched to partners.
• Modeled real-life donation flows with dispatch and tracking logic.
• Facilitated stakeholder workshops to align on what not to build.
• Built founder confidence through structured decision-making frameworks.

Outcome & Impact

• Validated an MVP that secured pilot funding.
• Provided a product foundation for scaling Goodr’s mission.
• Delivered high-clarity documentation for next-stage development.
• Sparked momentum that carried into operational partnerships.