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Recipes is a mobile app which will help you to
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Register a new recipe into the app
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Compile a shopping list from the ingredients of the recipe
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Search for a recipe online and download it to the app
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Backup to cloud

value & needs

value

Digital recipe management allows you to save your favorite recipes from anywhere and anytime.
Gives security and peace of mind to the user knowing that now he can keep both old and beloved family recipes, as well as new recipes he recently discovered.

needs

When, over the years, favorite recipes are collected in notebooks and scattered notes, there is a danger of losing the loved recipes, and thus there is a great need to find a way to keep them.

Features set

The CookMood App features set solving the user`s needs

Target audience and conclusions from user research

Helps to understand the target audience pain points, goals etc.

User research

Interviews with 4 interviewees of age 33 - 68
mental models
Know and use social networks, online shopping, digital money management software, trips abroad, emails, etc.
main conclusions
Some of the recipes have been passed down in the family for several generations, and are still loved and in high demand. On the other hand, the solution of writing down those notes, or even recipe books, is no longer suitable for our time. The amount of information that people are exposed to today is enormous, the source of favorite meals is very wide and varied and the collection of favorite recipes has turned from a short list of a few recipes into a large database that must be constantly documented, managed and maintained at a higher level than ever before. Recording information today is done digitally, and the concept of paper in this context has become obsolete and useless. The main disadvantage of keeping important information in paper format is that it can easily be lost or destroyed during use in the kitchen after contact with various materials. A quick recording of a recipe on a piece of paper often remains in the same format and is collected into other records, after a certain period it becomes difficult to find the right recipe at the right time.

Product use

type of the product
Adding and managing recipes, creating a shopping list based on the ingredients of the recipe. Simple and user-friendly interface.
platform
Mobile
Duration of use per session
Varies depending on the type of meal (between a quarter of an hour and an hour on average)
Complexity of use processes
Medium
(different data must be entered).
degree of concentration
Medium.
Data must be entered accurately.
Urgency of use
High.
Consolidation of home recipes in one place requires you to contact the application regularly.

target audience

People who like to cook everyday
segment
Family members who prepare food for the whole family regularly

persona

Helps to understand the target audience pain points, goals etc.

Competitive Analysis and Conclusions from market research

Apps tested: My Recipe Box, Cookpad, Cookmate

My Recipe Box

Cookpad

Cookmate

Conceptual model

A convenient, user-friendly, detailed and clear recipe organizer.

Interface of a recipe sharing community, beautiful and invested with many participants and a rich content pool.

A simple, uncomplicated, user-friendly recipe organizer.

Navigation and orientation mechanism

Clear and convenient, in every window you can see exactly where you are.When you leave the application for a few minutes, you return to the same window

As a new user, it wasn't clear where the device I collected was, and it wasn't clear how to get to the right place

Orientation is quite intuitive, but not every window shows its name, the body of the titles is too large and the name of the location is not always visible in full

Structural / behavioral consistency

Intuitive, clear and consistent. A dark version of the interface is less pleasing to the eyeIntuitive and clear, consistent and pleasing to the eye It is possible to add airport/runway information to the DataBase

Consistent in terms of structure

Added a recipe only from the main seam

Identification / Recall

Easy to identify, in each window it is written where exactly you are at a given moment.

Easy to identify, in each window it is written where exactly you are at a given moment.

In the window for adding a new component, the name of the window is not listed, the body of the titles is too large and the name of the location is not always seen in its entirety

Efficiency of work processes

Short and clear tasks, only necessary procedures are done

Clear work processes

Clear work processes

Avoiding mistakes

Explanations and instructions during all use of the interface

After I declared the second COOKBOOK, I could not delete it and it was not possible to know in advance that it could not be deleted

There are no explanations in my opinion

Communication and feedback loops

There is communication in important processes of the interface

There is communication in the procedures of the most important interface

Not found

Responsiveness

Not found

Loading data without detail

Not found

On-boarding

A very simplified explanation is given for every important procedure in the interface

Mainly during connection to the interface requests for access permissions to user information

There is

Learnability

There are explanations and noticeable accompaniment throughout the use of the interface

Collecting a patch from a community and using several COOKBOOKS is not entirely clear to a new user and takes time to understand

It is not difficult to learn the interface, but if there were additional explanations and feedback loops, it would add value to the product

Delight

A dark version of the less successful interface is recommended in terms of interface functionality

Not found

Not found

Comparative market conclusions

Many of the applications allow registering new recipes and searching for recipes on the Internet with additional interface options that allow orderly management of the information. Many of them are filled with the amount of options that cause cognitive overload. Some of them, on the contrary, do not provide options that can benefit the user's taste. In CookMood, I emphasized the simplicity of the tasks alongside the options that facilitate the management of existing recipes and the collection of new recipes in an intuitive and convenient way. Collection of missing ingredients from an ingredient list of a particular recipe to a shopping list.

primary user flow diagram

Saving the recipe into the application

secondary user flow diagram

Compiling a shopping list from the ingredients of the recipe

User Interface Screens

Creating a new recipe

A way to understand whether the application is understandable to the user and identify shortcomings, if any.

additional screens

A way to understand whether the application is understandable to the user and identify shortcomings, if any.

Primary user flow diagrams screens

Saving the recipe in the application (some screens)

Adding an image and setting the preparation time

adding an ingredient to the ingredients list, deleting and editing an ingredient

choosing category, setting tags, adding and editing preparation steps

adding an image to the preparation step, final summary recipe view

secondary user flow diagrams screens

Compiling a shopping list from the ingredients of the recipe

editing recipe quantity from the ingredient list

adding ingredients to the shopping list and editing items from the shopping list

style guide

A way to understand whether the application is understandable to the user and identify shortcomings, if any.

Typography

A way to understand whether the application is understandable to the user and identify shortcomings, if any.

Colors

A way to understand whether the application is understandable to the user and identify shortcomings, if any.

Icons

A way to understand whether the application is understandable to the user and identify shortcomings, if any.

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