one step at a time.
Duration
About Cooking 101
The Problem
Role
Involvement
2024.1-2024.3
UIUX Designer
Cooking 101 is a recipe sharing app that makes cooking more accessible and rewarding for college students who are just starting to learn how to cook. An app that’s made by students, for students!
Cooking is hard, cooking takes time, and cooking is expensive! Lots of people come into college without knowing how to cook and end up concocting struggle meals that aren’t usually appetizing or nutritious.
Our initial user research led to the following insights:
UIUX design, User Research, Wireframing, Design System, Prototyping
Users dislike blog-style recipe layouts with long stories heading the actual recipe.
Insight #1
Users desire organized and easily accessible recipe categories.
Insight #2
The functionality to save all recipes and the ability to share them with friends are highly valued.
Insight #3
The Solution
Simple Onboarding Process
Categorized Browsing/Recipe Explore Page
Categorized Browsing/Recipe Explore Page
Categorized Browsing/Recipe Explore Page
