e.a.t. - dinner meal planning app

A conceptual app, e.a.t. (everyone's automated taste) that solves the pain points and frustrations associated with planning dinner for many archetypes. 

This prototype app was created while completing my UX Design certificate at BrainStation.

Problem-Space

How might we make it easier for people to meal plan and find recipes catered to their preferences that can save them time and money?

1. Meal planning is frustrating weekly.

2. Users feel uninspired to think of meals to make.

Discovery + Opportunity

After conducting 5 user interviews, I discovered that 4/5 potential users are frustrated with others' "extreme food preferences." In addition, many of the interviews revealed that people dislike thinking about what to cook daily.

Possible Solutions

1. Help users to select a variety of food preferences, allergies and add custom preferences during the onboarding process - meal plans catered to their needs.

2. Social support with "Friends Feed" - users can get meal ideas from friends. 

Learnings

From ideation to implementation, and the steps in between that matter for the user, I was able to learn more about UI/UX.

Concerning the users' needs, after creating a prototype and testing, there was a lot of positive feedback and satisfaction with the app features in relation to their pain points.

Lastly, learning to embrace change and growth, validating those changes, and the result has made me a better designer.

My Role

• Research

• Empathy Interviews

• User Flows

• 2 Key Task Flows

• Sketching

• Lo-Fi + Hi-Fi Wireframing

• Prototyping

• UI Design

Timeframe

• 5 weeks

Tools

• Figma