Date Completed: July 2022

Course:

Principles and practices of User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX). Design for digital, interactive media. Iterative design processes, audience research.

Assignment:

Students were tasked to create an idea for an app that they would then bring to life. Guided to identify their problem, narrow in on their demographic, conduct research to provide reasoning for their solution, and begin using Figma to create Low-Fi, Mid-Fi, and final Hi-Fi ideations to be presented at the end of the course.

My Idea & The Problem:

As a college student finding time to cook, let alone be creative in the kitchen, was a struggle. I found myself every Sunday being overly ambitious in what I’d buy at the grocery store. Only to be standing at my fridge doorway mid-week, hungry and tired, looking at various veggies, random sauces, and mismatched leftovers. I often resorted to cooking what I knew or eating out a lot more than I would have liked resulting in wasting that food I couldn’t figure out what to do with or eat fast enough. It was this that made me inspired to create an app that would combat food waste and inspire creativity in the kitchen that would be carried into their lives long after college.

Solution:

Create an app that inspires college kids to cook more with ingredients they already have.

Features to Consider

• Allow for quick input and output

• Remain cost-effective

• Consider including a social element/ interaction with others

Final Product:

I created an app that allowed the user to input various ingredients they had that they needed to use. With these ingredients, the app then generated various recipes that used each ingredient. In my prototype, these are chicken and rice. Once given the receipt the app provides the opportunity for the user to share their creation with friends on the EasyEats app or onto other existing platforms like Instagram and Facebook.