APP SUMMARIES
This app allows you to check off what you have in your house and the app will generate several different cooking options. The app will also allow you to see recipes that may only need one or two additional ingredients.
This app will have a list of recipes found on the web and allow users to also upload their own recipes to collaborate with. adding recipes may have certain promotional offers – like a coupon for an ingredient. Users can also rate recipes, so you can sort recipes by star number or closest match up. this app would also allow users to enter certain food allergies into their search results.
Users can also input certain cooking options that they have (stove top, oven, microwave, etc.) After you’re finished making a meal you can rate recipe. you can filter by time takes to make the recipe
spicing up a simple meals by using the spice it function on the app.
USER SCENARIO
Jim Halbert is a grad student on a tight budget. After a long day of classes Jim comes home to realize all he has left in his kitchen is chicken, eggs, bread and a few spices. He logs in with Meager Meals and he’s able to find a list of recipes that he can make with the contents of his fridge. Jim pulls up his kitchen inventory and selects the ingredients he already has. Jim is able to star key ingredients that he primarily wants to use. when he swipes away, his ingredients have been transferred to the search bar. Jim realizes he also has bread and olive oil, so he adds it in the search bar. Meager Meals provides Jim with a list of recipes that best match the ingredients the already has. The app lets Jim know he all the ingredients needed with a checkmark and the cooking difficulty. Jim chooses oven baked chicken because he has all the ingredients and its easy. He makes the meal and likes it. Jim is able to share it to Facebook and give it his own rating.
APP NAMES
conservative cooking
half baked cooking
short chef
meager meal maker
meager meal
INTERVIEWS
Got a lot of “please make this app!”
In interviews, people asked how would the app know how to rate “easy, medium and hard”? maybe if you add your own recipe you have a series of questions to answer and then the app could generate the difficulty level? maybe have 10 questions to rate the difficulty level based on time required or specialized food utensils needed.
People also want to be able to mark recipes they were interested in without saving them to favorites so they don’t have to shuffle through all their interests to get to their actual favorite recipes.