PRODUCT DESIGN

Replate

Non-profit organization based in Berkeley, CA that aims to reduce food waste and scarcity through helping deliver leftover food from restaurants to local shelters and communities.

ROLE — Product Designer · DESIGN · PROTOTYPING · YEAR — 2026

PROJECT MEMBERS

Jeannine Ruiz, Stephen Hung, Abhinav Bellapu, Sania Bidurukontam, Saahil Sukhija, Melissa Co, Liana Kong

SKILLS + TOOLS

Product Design, Design Systems, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Usability Testing, Prototyping, Figma

00 / JOINING PROJECT

Project Overview

As my first project with Blueprint, where projects run two semesters long to ensure high-quality, fully developed applications, I joined this one halfway through its implementation. This experience pushed me to quickly onboard into an unfamiliar codebase and existing design system, adapt my process around decisions the team had already made, and learn how to collaborate effectively with teammates who had months of context I didn't have. It taught me how to contribute meaningfully without starting from scratch.

As my first project with Blueprint, where projects run two semesters long to ensure high-quality, fully developed applications, I joined this one halfway through its implementation. This experience pushed me to quickly onboard into an unfamiliar codebase and existing design system, adapt my process around decisions the team had already made, and learn how to collaborate effectively with teammates who had months of context I didn’t have. It taught me how to contribute meaningfully without starting from scratch.

01 / CONTEXT

Onboarding onto the project

Share how you clustered findings, surfaced patterns, and translated research into insights, design principles, and a clear problem statement.

ADD INSIGHT MAPS, JOURNEYS, OR PRINCIPLES

KEY INSIGHT

Add the one research insight that most changed the direction of this project.

03 / IDEATION

Explore broadly, then make the trade-offs visible.

Use this section for sketches, flows, concepts, and the decision criteria that helped you converge on a direction worth prototyping.

ADD SKETCHES, FLOWS, OR CONCEPT EXPLORATIONS

04 / PROTOTYPE + HI-FI

Make the experience testable, then make it real.

Show the prototypes that answered the biggest questions, what changed after feedback, and the high-fidelity designs that carried the work forward.

OUTCOME — Add final learnings, impact, and the next question you would investigate.

ADD INTERACTIVE PROTOTYPE OR FINAL SCREEN DESIGNS

melissa co

clarity through accessibility

i’d love to chat more! connect with me @

resume

melissaco768@berkeley.edu

melissa co

clarity through accessibility

i’d love to chat more! connect with me @

resume

melissaco768@berkeley.edu