Mobile Application

Meal Prep Mastery: Transforming Kitchen Chaos into Culinary Confidence with a streamlined mobile app.

For many, planning meals often feels like a juggling act. The goal with this product was to design a seamless digital solution that turns the process into a streamlined experience to reduce trips to the store, food waste, and stress.
Listening to stories led to a deeper understanding of frustrations in the weekly meal planning process.
We began by conducting user interviews with diverse segments—busy professionals, college students, and parents. Through these conversations, we identified common frustrations:
Empathizing with user needs by creating personas and affinity maps to turn pain points into actionable design ideas.
Mapping a journey through the Maze: Designing a tool that simplifies meal prep
We didn’t just want a tool that worked—we wanted one that made meal prep feel easy, intuitive, and almost effortless.
From prototype to perfection: Iterating, testing, and improving with user feedback
No design ever comes out perfect on the first try, and our prototype was no exception. But by putting it in the hands of real users, we were able to refine it in ways that would have been impossible otherwise:
Participants loved the auto-generated grocery list, but they wanted more control over editing items and excluding ingredients they already had at home.
The next step in the meal prep revolution: What’s on the horizon
This was just the beginning. Looking to the future, I saw a wealth of potential features that could further elevate the user experience:
This project was a departure from my previous desktop-based work, pushing me to design mobile-first with a user experience that would thrive on smaller screens. It required rethinking traditional navigation patterns, simplifying interactions, and focusing on clarity—ultimately proving that a clean, well-crafted mobile interface can make a world of difference in user satisfaction.