Watocook
An app that helps users discover the type of meals they would be able to cook with only the ingredients they own.
Story
“31% of 18-to-29-year-olds felt confident in the kitchen, as opposed to nearly half of adults over 50.”- The Washington Post
Problem
01.
Users do not know what to cook within time and ingredients constraints.
02.
Users often toss away unused ingredients.
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Users do not know what to cook within time and ingredients constraints.
02.
Users often toss away unused ingredients.
Solution
01.
Users could search and enter a list of ingredients they own and be prompted with recipes that only showcases the entered ingredients.
Users will then be able to save recipes to their collection to save time.
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Users could search and enter a list of ingredients they own and be prompted with recipes that only showcases the entered ingredients.
Users will then be able to save recipes to their collection to save time.
Users
Interviews were conducted with 5 college students.
The Current Market
01.A website serves similiar purpose but prompts recipes that showcases more ingredients than entered.
02.
There are current apps that allow users to add all their available ingredients in their pantry to prompt recipes; however, recipes also showcases more ingredients than entered.
03.
Meal kits services are becoming a popular service.
User Flow
If no recipe is found with the entered ingredients, user will be prompted with a new ingredient or they will be prompted to reenter a new list of ingredients.
Ideations
How might we create quick solutions for millenials to cook with what they own and reduce wasteful ingredients in the long term?
Design Wireframes
User Testing
User tests were conducted through fixed scenarios.01.
Imagine that you are trying to think of what to cook for your next meal; however, there are only a few ingredients left in your fridge. You do not know what to cook and hope to get suggestions from an application. Sign in, find out what to eat by selecting the ingredients that you own (5 tomatoes on the vein, 1 cup of white rice, 5 eggs). Select tomato egg recipe, save it to your collections and go to your collections to check it out.
02.
Could you remove the strawberry bowl from your collection?
03.
Lastly, go back to the home page and what would you do to take a sneak peak of the strawberry vanilla ice cream recipe?
Results
A problem was found via task 3: remove strawberry bowl from your collection.
New Version
Final Design
Next Step
01.Conduct another user test on the iterated design.
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Conduct accessibility test.