Tag: concepts

1st Concept – Crusts Exchange
Target: Bread crusts lovers and those who do not
Description: A community of people to sell/buy/share bread crusts.
Why: Although it is a fact that bread crusts are rich in antioxidants and dietary fiber which help prevent cancer, some people just don’t want to eat them. Instead of throwing away, why not give them to those crust lovers and maybe gain some money back?

2nd Concept – Recipe Generator
Target: People who don’t know what to make out of what they have around the house (or want to eat certain things but don’t know how to cook them)
Description: Input a list of whatever ingredients you have and the app will generate recipes only with those ingredients for you e.g. bread, egg, butter -> french toast, fried egg, buttered bread.
Why: Usually, it takes quite some time for non-cooking experts to look for new recipes using their usual ingredients. A faster way could be to open a fridge, use the app, and cook right away.

3rd Concept – Find an M for M&M’s
Target: People who like to take photographs and play games
Description: Find an M in anything and take a photograph of it using a circular frame to create a digital M&M’s chocolate. Who has the most chocolates wins a prize of their own selected photograph printed on actual M&M’s chocolates.
Why: M&M’s is a fun brand that lets you print letters and images on their chocolates. This is a further step to make people realize that they can have fun with M&M’s anywhere anytime using a gamification method.

Dieter Ramble

The app with working title as Dieter Ramble, is an app that basically is a dynamic recipe app for cooking by yourself.

Remember your grandmother’s cookbook? She spent most of her life raising children and grand children. And by the time that you just started to remember anything at all. Your favorite dishes, or your sibling’s or even your parents are all recorded in a hand written small book. That dynamic of trial and errors combined with love and absolutely a lot of time goes into curating those ingredient just for you. The taste to be called ‘home’.

Inspired by Flipboard, the recipe is not curated by the admin or need to search to specific menu by yourself but it will automatically curate the menu depends on user’s input of:

• participants > who is eating? what are their feedback from last time? Oh this guy can’t handle spicy food? ok no more spicy next time he join us!
• favorite dish and style > it can suggest similar menu and variation that you can try next time you cook.
• local availability of the ingredient > you can input your local ingredients to the system so that it can take you to the menu that use those. it will also ask you to look for new ingredient every once in a while. so that your taste range expand.
• nutrient > balance meal is hard to find on any cookbook, the app will help you consider if you have a main dish in mind what is the best/ easiest possible side dish to go along with it.
• allergy > it can provide alternative ingredient/ menu that avoid using those ingredient that the participants allergic from so that they can have their meal with ease.

You can keep record and add feedback to your dish. Those review will go into account of which menu should it be for the next cooking session!

 

Perfect Pinch

Like in music, people with perfect pitch is those who are able to “know exactly” what the notes are as they hearing it. This app, perfect pinch, is an opensource community with an perfect tongue that can “know exactly” what goes into an elegant menu in front of them. Like wikipedia, this app allow the user to contribute their take on guessing, share their knowledge, discuss about what exactly goes into making chef-like menu.

The app is location-based and navigate by restaurant. Imagine the new restaurant open up at the corner of your street and then perfect pincher start to put up the whole menu on the site then deciphering each key ingredient and possible technique used on each menu. A lot of fun, isn’t it?

Each user will interact through scoring system, similar to what stackoverflow have. Those who are curious about how to make this menu better goes into this app and put the flag on the restaurant. Those who come up with the most voted answer get points. There is also achievement system coming with these points. more point, more respectful you are in the community.

App Idea 1: 

I remember when I first came to New York, I really had no idea how to order food. Back in South Korea, we would never have so many options. In Korea, whenever I went to a restaurant, or even a fast food restaurant, I would always order a set meal or a meal where I did not have to know every single ingredient. When I came to New York, it took me more than a year to order my first salad. In front of me was a whole selection of ingredients that I could put into my salad but I didn’t know most of their names. Even now, I still order them by saying “Can I have this, or can I have that.” I still really don’t know the different names of types of greens or cheese. I would love to design an aesthetic and informative app that will let people understand the different types of ingredients that go into a salad, a sandwich, or anything else. If I typed “Salad,” then I would get a selection of ingredients and also get tips for which ingredients would go well together. Maybe I’d also like to put different nutrition information for the different ingredients as well.

App Idea 2:

I enjoy cooking but sometimes when I want to cook something, I simply do not know where or how to start. There are millions of how-to instructions online but there isn’t really an app that teaches you in an intense step-by-step manner where one page of an app is literally dedicated to one step. I would like to design an app where it says something so obvious like “Step 1: Wash Carrots.” I think it will be playful and informative at the same time for absolute beginners. Along with providing a in-depth step by step method of cooking, I would also like to incorporate a stop watch that enables people to know when frying or boiling is complete. Although it may seem over-functional, people like me who need exact timing directions can use this app. There would be a timer that will indicate 6:00 minutes of boiling and an alarm will sound when the boiling is done.

Ramen timer App

As an example, I cook ramen a lot but it’s really time-wasting to stay in front of your boiling pot for six minutes doing nothing. And although you can see the clock, people are sometimes forgetful so an alarm may be useful.

1. Fresh Direct + Whole Foods….So you are looking to cook a delicious meal for your family or group of friends, but you are nervous about cooking for a large group of people and you don’t have the time to coordinate a delicious and nutritious meal. Yet you want to prepare the meal yourself. You load the app and it is broken down into sections ie. international, mexican, 600cal or less, kids favs, etc. Within each category there are lists of different recipes that fit. You choose your meal and add it to your cart and pick your ideal time for delivery. Via Fresh Direct and Whole Foods, they deliver in conjunction with the actual recipe and the quantity of people in your dinner party. This way, you have a great meal by simply following the recipe within the app and not having to waste time at the store hunting down all of the ingredients and spices.

2. Quick Tricks: Pretty much all of the helpful hints I learned from my mother. This app would section out food type by meat, veggie, fruit, nut etc. Within each section there would be categories such as cutting, peeling, serving, preserving, etc. Here you would find quick tips, photos and potentially videos of the quick and easy ways to do things such as, dice and onion, cut and avocado, peel an orange, cut a tomato (so it won’t fall apart)…. all of the things that seem simple until you attempt to do them and end up cutting yourself and a mess.