TraDish — Family recipe sharing
As a final project for my UX Design bootcamp, I was put into a group with my fellow UX Design students, Haley Payne, and Steven Warren. Together, we were given the assignment to create and design an iOS app, that we would hand over to an iOS development team, (chosen from the iOS Development class.) It was the dev’s assignment to ship it to the app store at the end of 5 weeks. We also worked with a team from Software QA class who tested the app for problems, and made sure all ensuing errors were corrected.
Look for a link at the conclusion of the case study, to download TraDish on your iPhone today.
Here’s a sneak peak:
Our challenge as a group was to…
…answer the question; how might we bring family recipes into the digital world?
…include the ability to iterate on recipes while keeping the old recipe.
Mae Bryant comes from a large family and cooks often. She often looks up new recipes on Pinterest or a simple Google search. She is worried as time passes that family recipes will be lost due to most of her family’s recipes being written or verbal. She wants an easy way to access and preserve these recipes. She loves the memories she relives when cooking family recipes and wants to share those stories and experiences with her children. Mae wants a way to quickly add her own flair to a family recipe but not change the original.
Mae, meet TraDish!
Now, I know what you’re thinking, there are (arguably) too many different recipe sharing apps today. After some extensive surveying, interviews, and market research, our team found that there is a need for a place for families to easily organize recipes, where they can collaborate to preserve recipes that have been passed down for generations.
We worked together with our devs and QA team in the beginning stages of wire-framing and ideating to decide what our app would need to appeal to our user. We worked on keeping the app simple when we starting putting together lo-fidelity wire-frames, while also adding different important features that our devs could build.
When the lo-fidelity wireframes came together pretty quickly, we started focusing on the style for our app.
Landing on this decision was a turning point in our project. We started out with a different color combination that just didn’t fit our key objective. It took away the opportunity we had to let users upload pictures of their recipes to share with their families.
We felt the new colors we chose were more aesthetically pleasing and better matched any pictures we uploaded during testing. The colors helped create a modern, traditional feel with darker colors to appeal to younger and older users.
Another turning point in our project was deciding on what to include in our navigation bar. We knew the navigation needed to answer the questions:
The navigation also needed to provide access to:
Originally, we designed a side menu bar but through user testing and research, we found that a tab bar was the most comfortable for users. We added an options menu on screens that needed to provide more access to edit, share, delete, etc.
Without further ado, after 6 weeks of designing, developing and testing, here is a demo of TraDish: Where family recipes thrive.
I have learned so much while working on this project. It was awesome to work with the iOS devs and QA team and see things from their point of view. And thanks to my design teammates, Haley Payne and Steven Warren. Working in groups comes with challenges but is crucial in creating something that will appeal to many different kinds of people.
Click the link below to download and try out TraDish today!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tradish/id1490353466
To be able to download an app that I helped design is a dream I didn’t actually know I had. It was a great way to close my intro into the UX Design world through my course at Dev Mountain. Now onto the job hunt! As always, excited for new projects ahead!
Any feedback is welcome! If you’d like to connect, you can reach me at gretchwalk@gmail.com
