In our early sketching, we decided to have different selections showing the user's last used, last saved, and what's in season for Ingredients. We later decided to focus on what users were familiar with, creating a similar explore page. This feature would be a part of the home page, with navigation buttons on top and allowing users to scroll down to explore recipes. We later changed the design to a uniform navigation feature on the foot of the screen, creating three main tabs for our users to navigate while allowing them to add a new recipe on the home page. The color scheme inspires a sense of freshness and health to motivate users to be more active in their cooking.
In our sketching phase, we thought of the user uploading their recipes or one from a social media platform to the application. After being added, the ingredients would show so the user could edit them according to their needs. We gave users an upload screen similar to other applications in the low-fi prototype. Now, it includes a URL, video upload, and manual, with the option of adding a photo for the thumbnail of the recipe. In the high-fi prototype, we made it pop up for our users. We added emojis for icons in case a photo cannot be added or is a choice made by the user. We broke down the Ingredients by number, measurement, and ingredient, so users aren't familiar with traditional alterations where they typically account for portions versus measurements.
This feature came to light in our sketching after we completed our feature mapping. When creating the match feature, we wanted to introduce variety to the user's meal rotation with familiar ingredients. In our first iteration in the low-fi, It would stack different recipes and allow users to click on that recipe, opening a pop-up to view the full recipe and then add the favored recipes to their saved. We expanded on this more in the high-fi by keeping the stacking formatting. In the original recipe, you will see the Match created for that recipe to refer back to when the user wants to know where the original recipe came from.