The New Forker is a curated food guide / tour of the best New York City restaurants by the city’s best food critics and restaurant owners.
- Get an in depth look at undiscovered restaurants.
- Follow your favorite chefs and food critics.
- Book reservations and invite friends all within the app.
As we chatted about in class, I can totally buy the concept of review thru reservation. It does seem like something that restaurants would be into. If many of their new customers come from reading reviews, why would they want to lose the opportunity to immediately convert them into a reservation. Just for that, they would want to opt into the system. Like we talked about though, I think cutting the social aspect is reasonable.
It’d be great to call the 1.0 Home/Feed something more descriptive, like reviews. Do you think it could be useful to ever allow people to sort or filter the reviews? Or do you want it to always feel more editorial driven? Would the content adapt to be more relevant based on views/reservations?
On 1.2 Restaurant, it’d be interesting to think about where you place the make reservation button in relation to the body copy. That’d also be something interesting to prototype. Copy an entire New Yorker food review in and see what people do.
On 2.0 location, would it be nice to also be able to search beyond just filter? It’d be worth considering more touchable and precise interfaces versus a slider for price and distance. Distance can also mostly be handled by the zoom in the map. I doubt that your cuisine tags are large enough to be tappable right now, so consider that as you go into design.
How will 3.0 Follow change your feed? Will you still be given additional content or will it just be those you follow? Is it worth separating that into a different tab, or can that be integrated into the feed/review tab somehow?
4.0 settings is for being able to book a reservation, I assume. It’s worth thinking through what’s the easiest way to get the necessary info from folks and storing it to book their reservations.
Is there a way for me to see my booked reservations?