Here we’ve compiled our notes from 7 user interviews with Stanford students.

Interviewee 1: Female, senior

Habit awareness

1. Can you describe a typical day in terms of your personal resource use? Which activities do you think are the most wasteful?
   1. Probably food, paper (as in cotton pads and beauty wipes)
   2. Think good at light resourcefulness, and water
   3. Personal lights on 24/7 (string lights) — too lazy to turn of even when sleeping
2. Do you/what steps do you currently take to manage waste, water, and energy use in your home?
   1. Lights usually keep on at home all the time, roommate turns off so starter doing it oo
3. How do you think your daily habits impact the environment on a larger scale?
   1. Can be better at sorting her waste

Challenges

1. What types of waste do you find most challenging or confusing to manage properly?
2. At Stanford, do you feel like you know which bin to put things in?
   1. Compost vs. landfill
   2. Recycles is easy
   3. Usually don’t sort in own room (too lazy to get trash bags, so just throws everything into one bag)
3. What do you think prevents you from making more sustainable choices?
   1. Being lazy
   2. i.e. Need easier access to bags
4. Would you be open to adopting a more sustainable lifestyle?
   1. Yes, would like to be able to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle
      1. if she were to be able to see the impact of actions in a real world setting would probably motivate her
   2. Uses other productivity app that she likes like growing a tree, or see metrics (i.e. saved this much waste, which saved dolphin)

Perception of Waste Amounts

1. Tie into lo-fi prototype: can you guess how many gallons of water do you use when taking a shower? When washing your hands? When using the toilet?
   1. 2 galloons of water? definitely not 2
   2. 5?
   3. ~ 1—20 minutes

Interviewee 2: Female, frosh

Habit awareness

1. Can you describe a typical day in terms of your personal resource use? Which activities do you think are the most wasteful?
   1. Too much food in dining halls, hard to gauge how much she can eat, but have been trying to be better about it
   2. Random amazon things that end up throwing away — bubble wrap
2. Do you/what steps do you currently take to manage waste, water, and energy use in your home?
   1. Try to correctly sort trash
   2. Trying to better gauge personal needs — gauge would how much food will make you full
   3. Donate clothes more rather than throwing it away