Design Process🐍
Key findings:
- Different people repeat same food on different time period over a week. 3 out 5 user were ready to repeat same food after 3 days while remaining were fine with 1 or 2 days as well.
- Not every user want high protein and low carbs food in every meal of the week.
- They tend to plan ahead, although this does not always works out as planned.
- In the same family, the preference of food can vary a lot and most of them were fine with having multiple meal cooked for the same time.
2️⃣ Defining Problem Statement⚠️
Which problems are the users facing and what are the options to solve it.
Planning meals seems tedious and most of the app are filled with crap things that makes the whole flow very time consuming
- Most of the apps provide community for the recipe and are more focused towards recipe making rather than meal planning
- Most app have meal planning as a side feature rather than the main feature of the app
User want to explore new recipe without spending much time searching?
- We can take help of AI to show recipe suggestion based on usage and preferences of user
- If the user don't want to look for other suggestion, they can pick recipe from favourite recipe list
- They can directly add third party website link for the recipe
They want to share the meal plan with other members of the group and a view link to the cook as well
- A well structured meal planning system where the user can share the whole family plan with other users
- Some of the family member can edit/add meal plans
Every member have different preferences for food.
- Make a meal selection process that is easy and should have least number of steps to reduce drop-off of the user
- They can select their preferences while planning the meal
Brandings and Colors
- Variety of colors to make the app cheerful and helps in the visual heirarchy between different cards and tags
- Inter as the font as it easy to read and have a good amount of spacing between each character. Inter has a relative x-height of exactly 3/4th the cap height that increases readability which is good to for reading recipe.
6️⃣ High-Fidelity Design 🏄♀️
Animated sun, Group Icon and emojis to make it appeal to the GenZ user base
Easy 5 question survey to reduce bounce rate
Edit access for family members while the view access for the cook solving both the problems.
Option to select preferences per member
Popup form to maintain the context of the current screen
Option to select preferences per member
