CookDev:
A Social Cooking App
Role
Project Designer
Duration
Two months
Project type
Group project
Tools & Skills
Figma
Role
Project Designer
Duration
Two months
Project type
Group project
Tools & Skills
Figma
Role
Project Designer
Duration
Two months
Project type
Group project
Tools & Skills
Figma
A social cooking platform where students can find partners, share ingredients, and create meals together. From matching kitchens to discovering new recipes, CookDevCook makes cooking more fun, collaborative, and effortless.
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On the home page, users can browse ongoing collaborative cooking events, review the ingredients and nutrition information contributed by each participant, and then join the event that best suits them.
When users return to the cooking event they just joined, they can add more ingredients and view recipe suggestions based on the combined ingredients.
The user can then either assign different tasks to each person or let the app automatically generate task assignments.
After completing a collaborative cooking session, users are prompted to give an overall rating. When they reach certain achievements, they unlock badges, which can be displayed on their profile.
On the activity completion page, users can browse recommended recipes or tap the button at the bottom of the screen to open the recipe list, view each recipe step by step, and set a timer for each step.
While browsing the homepage or community, users can view group posts, share their experiences, and post about making friends or cooking together, helping them connect with like-minded people and find potential cooking partners.
Literature Research
Low-fidelity prototype
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Room Number
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Introduction
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Public
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Invite friends
Recent collaborations
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Finish
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Private kitchen
Search by food
invite friend
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Room
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My kitchen
Finish Basket!
Floor 6 in Kitchen 1010
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Food Selection
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Floor 6
in
Kitchen
1010
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Floor 6
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Detail
Detail
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Submit your recipe
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Recipe name
Time
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Home
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Kitchen selection
Choose public kitchen
Choose private kitchen
Choose own kitchen
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Add to basket
Your food selections
Time Preference
Potato * 3
Start
Monday
26.10.09
17：00
Finish
Monday
26.10.09
18：00
Invite Friends
Saved
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Edit
Edit
My recipes
Saved recipes
Activity
See all
See all
See all
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Recipe
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Recommend recipes
Recommend recipes
View Voting
Submit your recipes
Saved Recipes
Find a kitchen
My kitchen
Search by food
Add to my basket
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My selections
Saved
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Vegetable
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Fruit
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Vote
collect
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Share to community
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Design iterations
Initial Features
- Virtual ingredient basket for collaborative cooking
- Simple, user-friendly interface for spontaneous group meals
- Options for private or public kitchen settings
Iteration Outcomes Based on Testing
- Cleaner interface design → The UI was refined to improve usability and visual clarity.
- More detailed feedback and nutrition guidance → Added richer feedback mechanisms and health-related insights to better support users.
- Streamlined virtual basket flow → The virtual basket was directly integrated into the kitchen selection step, resulting in a smoother interaction flow.
- Stronger social interaction → Expanded social features, including friend connections and recipe sharing.
- Simplified rating system → Simplified rating system
Refinements Based on the Next Round of Feedback
- Simplified rating system → Retained a single overall rating and removed detailed scoring criteria.
- AI-powered recipe recommendations→Replaced voting with intelligent recommendations, allowing users to freely choose from suggested options.
- Balanced task allocation → Introduced role-based task assignment to support fair and efficient collaboration.
- Location-based filtering → Enabled users to more easily discover nearby cooking partners.
- Preference-based matching → Provided matching options based on users’ personal preferences.
