DQUE
College students are always running. Classes back to back, assignments piling up, and somewhere in between you're supposed to eat. The campus mess has fixed timings. The queue takes 20 minutes you don't have. So most students just skip it. DQue was built to fix that.
Skipping meals isn't a habit. It's what happens when the system doesn't work for you.
I talked to students and cafeteria owners to understand where the friction was. The answer was simple: there was no digital layer to the system at all. No pre-ordering, no queue visibility, no way to eat on your schedule instead of the mess's. So I designed one. An app where you order ahead, skip the line, and pick up when it works for you.
Fixing campus food meant redesigning the whole order-to-pickup flow, not just adding a screen to an old system.
The design had to be fast. A student walking between two lectures can't spend three minutes figuring out an app. Menus, order status, and pickup time are all visible immediately. You place the order, you get a time, you show up and eat. That's it.ives aiming to leave a strong impression.
