QuackSnack

QuackSnack is a mobile cooking app that curates personalized recipes based on each user’s specific dietary needs, restrictions, and preferences. From gluten-free to vegan to high-protein options, the app simplifies meal planning by offering tailored suggestions, step-by-step instructions, and a user-friendly interface designed to make cooking accessible, enjoyable, and inclusive for everyone.

Group Members: Georgia Berry, Annabel Miller, Emma Larsen, and Izzy Prentis.

App Research

Competitors:

  • Paprika Recipe Manager: Known for its robust organization features, Paprika allows users to save recipes, create meal plans, and generate shopping lists. Its user-friendly interface and cross-device synchronization are highly praised.

  • BigOven: Offers a vast collection of recipes and social features, enabling users to follow friends and family to see their cooking activities. It also includes a recipe scanner to digitize handwritten recipes.

  • CookBook App: This app provides functionalities like meal planning, shopping lists, and voice-assisted cooking. It emphasizes personalization and organization, allowing users to tag and rate recipes.

  • Forks Over Knives: Catering to plant-based diets, this app offers over 600 recipes with step-by-step instructions and meal-planning features. It's tailored for users seeking healthy, vegetarian options.

  • Yummly: Yummly is an American website and mobile app that provides users with recipes via recommendations and a search engine. Yummly uses a knowledge graph to offer a semantic web search engine for food, cooking, and recipes. 

  • Tasty: Tasty is a popular cooking app by BuzzFeed that provides an interactive and visually engaging platform for food enthusiasts of all skill levels. The app offers thousands of recipes, complete with step-by-step instructions, video tutorials, and customizable features to suit individual tastes and dietary preferences.

  • Cookpad: Cookpad Inc. is a Japanese food tech company. The company operates "Cookpad", which is Japan’s largest recipe-sharing service, with 60 million monthly unique users in Japan and 40 million monthly unique users globally, allowing visitors to upload and search through original, user-created recipes.

Additional Resources for UI/UX

For a comprehensive understanding of mobile app design, consider exploring the following resources:

  • "Practical UI" by Adham Dannaway: This book offers a logic-driven approach to designing intuitive and accessible interfaces, focusing on modern best practices.
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  • "The UX Cookbook": Provides practical recipes for user research, design, and usability testing, serving as a valuable guide for UX practitioners.
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Typography and Color Palette

MY CONTRIBUTIONS

MY CONTRIBUTIONS

For our QuackSnack project, we split the work evenly to create our application. I was responsible for creating and inputting all color and typography. My contributions began with developing an effective color palette that reflects our overall goal for our app. I selected tones that were both inviting and functional, but were also lively. I made sure to create a color palette and typography that was accessible to all, ensuring a legible contrast and readability. I explored multiple selections of typography for this project and landed on a pairing that works well with the tone of the app. I then input all of these into wireframes made by my teammates, creating an engaging and purpose-driven flow.

Throughout the project, I collaborated closely with my team to maintain a unified visual direction while providing and receiving feedback to maintain cohesion. I assisted with the final mock-ups, video, and created our presentation. This project allowed me to apply my design skills in a collaborative setting while also showcasing my visuals and UX decisions.