Dump Cook App

Many Americans do not like to spend a lot of time making food. Adults in the US spends about 30 minutes a day on cooking and clean-up [from cooking].

Dump Cook seeks to help users like myself find super easy recipes that they can cook at home without hassle. This app is for those who hate cooking, but have to save money and eat healthy.

It includes Filters to find easy meals quickly. Users can search by an ingredient they already have, and filter by the number of total ingredients, cooking time, and popularity (how many likes it has).

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The Cook Mode makes it easy to follow the step by step instructions with interactive timers.

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When adding recipes, the app limits the recipe to 8 ingredients and 5 steps maximum.

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Interactive Prototype

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Spice It Up | (Most) Final Prototype & Presentation

So we come at last to the end of our first project for Mobile Media, our food-app for either iOS or Android.

It’s funny, but my biggest reflection doing this – besides always do more user testing (which I learned hard last semester) – was actually on iOS UI elements and navigation.

Continue reading Spice It Up | (Most) Final Prototype & Presentation

Project #1: Food Guardian – Final Iteration & Presentation

  • User Insights from last user testing

    1. Typo problem or choice of words:
      Bad choice of words or typo might mislead your users. It is important to check every text to prevent from misunderstanding.
    2. Color code:
      Good use of color helps users to understand the information directly and makes your app more intuitively. Also it makes the experience comfortable.
  • Feedback from Critics

    1. Food waste is good concept and also is a problem today.
    2. If there is a technology can analyze a photo with lots of groceries and see what kinds of food are they, which can make everything efficient.
    3. Good color code that makes information clearer and more understandable.
  • Final Iteration

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  • Final Presentation Slides

Project01-Food Guardian Final Presentation

#thursdayplays – Logos Quiz

   

Logo quiz is a game that where players guess the logos of popular brands. It has a really simple concept – erase part of the logos that people are familiar with and let players guess the name of the brand through a partially shown logo. This concept makes players naturally stick on this game because players will think they really know the name of the brand, but it’s on the tip of their tongue (or rather, fingertips)! And when players finally recall the name, it brings a great sense of accomplishment.

Because of the simpleness of its core concept, it is easy to learn playing this game. The more logos players answered, the more levels will be unlocked. It became a really popular game even though the UI is not very exquisite.

It has in-app purchases of hints, game coins etc. But as a quiz-type game ended by “correct answers”, instead of paying money, players can easily google and get those answers because lots of people were discussing it and posting answers.