Savr Recipes Mobile App
Collaborating with the Savr Recipes mobile app team, I've channeled my passion for cooking to enhance the user experience, focusing on accuracy and ease of use. Recognizing common pain points such as recipe timing, step organization, learning new cooking techniques, and preparation guidance, our mission is to empower fellow home cooks like myself to effortlessly create delicious meals.
I conducted a comprehensive week-long modified Google Ventures design sprint, a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Utilizing an agile process infused with design thinking principles.
In my capacity as a UI/UX designer, I initiated the project with a challenge-driven design brief. This framework guided me to redesign and prototype the user interaction for the recipe feature within the Savr Recipes mobile app. Subsequently, I rigorously evaluated these design iterations through usability testing, striving to optimize the app's usability and overall user satisfaction.
My Role
UI/UX Designer: I conducted a comprehensive week-long modified Google Ventures Design Sprint, a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Utilizing an agile process infused with design thinking principles.
Design Timeline
Savr Recipes is a mobile startup that wants to make it easier for people to new recipes and cook great meals at home. Recently, Savr has seen some negative reviews in regards to complicated recipes, timing, the order of steps, learning new techniques, and other feedback around preparing the meals. The aim for me as the UI/UX Designer is to help the company improve their user experiences.
Day 1
Understanding the problem
-Reviewed the design brief with customer feedback and current designs. -Developed “ How might we” questions -Creation of user story map. -Developed personas.
Current recipe screen is: -Text only format -Order of steps from start to finish
Candy and Kevin 25-42 years old Busy professionals, that would like to try new recipes to cook at home, without a lot of frustration.
-Reviewed the design brief with customer feedback and current designs. -Developed “ How might we” questions -Creation of user story map. -Developed personas.
Day 2
Sketching the solution
-Completed lightning demos (comparative company research). -Crazy 8's Exercise. -Solution sketch.
-Yummly Recipes & Cooking tools have a navigation menu that is easy to use on the app featuring an overview, ingredient list, and direction. -Actual recipe goes to another website. -The recipes are text only but the listing does offer straightforward tips, separates the instructions for what you can prep early, and has notes from users that can assist while you are cooking the recipe.
-Timing is clearly shown for users. -Tabs are used so users can easily find ingredients, directions, and equipment needed. -Instructions are organized by steps in the process. -Video tutorial feature added to give visual clarity of how things are progressing and learn new techniques. -Preparation screen gives the user and idea of what they can prepare before cooking.
-Completed lightning demos (comparative company research). -Crazy 8's Exercise. -Solution sketch.
Day 3
Creating a storyboard
I created the storyboard by using the map I created on Day 1 of the challenge. Starting in the kitchen the user would open the Savr Recipe app from the app store of their phone and find a new recipe to try on the app. Once a recipe is found, the user looks at the recipe and gathers all the ingredients; if they need to shop or find an alternative in the recipe, the user has options within the app, from the recipe screen. The user would move on to the preparation stage of the app, which has time e
I created the storyboard by using the map I created on Day 1 of the challenge. Starting in the kitchen the user would open the Savr Recipe app from the app store of their phone and find a new recipe to try on the app. Once a recipe is found, the user looks at the recipe and gathers all the ingredients; if they need to shop or find an alternative in the recipe, the user has options within the app, from the recipe screen. The user would move on to the preparation stage of the app, which has time e
Day 4
Prototyping the solution
See the app in action here!
Once choosing a recipe, Candy & Kevin can gather ingredients from the list, check of their progress and watch a tutorial.
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See the app in action here!
Day 5
Testing and Delivery
