DishDelight
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An app dedicated to bringing nutritious recipes and education to those with restrictive diets and allergies.
January 2024 - March 2024
Project Overview
The problem: There are many diet/ food app on the market with all sorts of goals in mind, but it is difficult to filter out those recipes for those with dietary restricitions and allergies to allow user to quickly access recipes that fit their lifestyle and budget.
The goal: To create a digital space that offers affordable recipes that are searchable not only by ingredient but also by diet and allergy specifications
User Research
Empathize
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test
Persona 1
“Now that I have been diagnosed with PCOS, having to reframe my entire diet seems so daunting.”
Demographic Data
Age:
Education:
Hometown:
Family:
Occupation:
28
MS
Milwaukee, WI
engaged, 1 Cat
Editor
Violet
Goals
- To find healthier options for the meals she has always enjoyed.
- Create a library of meals they can be accessed repeatedly
- PCOS - friendly recipes
Frustrations
- Finding recipes that are dietary compliant or have substitutes
- Ensuring that a weeks worth of meals are budget compliant
- Finding recipes that are scaled for one person
Persona 2
Devon
“Im really regretting never having taken my home-ec elective in high school.”
Demographic Data
Age:
Education:
Hometown:
Family:
Occupation:
21
Bachelors Fresno, CA
Single
Production Assistant
Goals
- Find beginner friendly recipes
- Swap his college favorites for healthier upgrades
- Save money by not ordering out
Frustrations
- There are often too many options which make it hard to choose
- Not enough filtering options for dietary restriction (GF)
- Complicated recipes that have ingredients that aren’t readily accessible
User Journey Map
Lo-Fi Wireframe’s
media box will provide a tutorial of recipe
recipes categorized by dietary restriction
Usability Study
Study type:
Unmoderated usability study
Location:
United States, remote
Participants:
5 participants
Length:
5-10 minutes
no list view
for recipes
want to be able to search recipes through more than one filter
add voice diction into grocery list
user flow of pages has some snags
grocery list
is difficult to organize
want multiple points of access in tapping sequence through user flow
the assets on each frame are too cluttered to allow for seamless navigation
App navigation located at bottom of screen for easy access
pages dedicated to educating users about in season foods which are also generally cheaper
interactive push buttons
ingredients are instantly added to the grocery list
Mockup’s
recipes sorted by over 6+ filtering options
Usability Study #2
Study type:
Unmoderated usability study
Location:
United States, remote
Participants:
5 participants
Length:
5-10 minutes
Findings
Organize grocery list by saved recipe
Add additional pop up menu to increass access points between frames
Modify text size and color to be more accessible
Takeaways & Next Steps
Continue to iterate on the user flow and add new filtering features
Conduct another usability study to see if user pain points have been addressed
Refine the UI elements to modernize the visual design of the frames