Project: Kids Cooking

Product Overview

Kids Cooking is a mobile app that helps kids and parents search, research, and create healthy meals.

Project Duration

May 2021 – June 2021

The Problem

Everywhere there is a basic health crisis. Diabetes and heart conditions are in the top of of the health crisis. How do we get children and parents involved in a healthy eating lifestyle?

The Goal

Kid Cooking is an app where children and parents can learn to create healthy meals. The goal is to educate all generations about healthy eating, nutrition, and having fun with healthy foods. Starting at an early age will help instill a healthy living.

My Role

Lead UX designer, UX researcher, and Visual Designer from concept to delivery.

Responsibilities

Researched problems and created flows and solutions from collected insights. UX wireframing to prototyping. Concept and creation of design.

User Research

Summary

I conducted an unmoderated usability study to see how useful this app would be. To my surprise, the group, mix of children and their parents, found the app very useful. All have busy lives and find the convenience of fun healthy and quick recipes on app very useful.

Besides the usefulness, many found the idea of teaching and learning about healthy cooking can help improve one’s overall health in life.

User Pain Points

Busy Lives

Busy children and working adults found making healthy meals can be too time consuming.

Lack of Knowledge

Meals can be overwhelming without the right knowledge of healthy meal creations.

App Designs

Frustrated with some navigation and design elements with early iterations.

Problem Statement

Julie is a busy mom and a doctor who needs an easy way to teach her kids to create and eat healthy meals because she want her kids to have a healthy life.

Usability Study

Parameters

Study Type

Unmoderated usability study

Location

USA

Participants

10 participants Includes 5 adults each with child 10+yrs

Length

10 - 15 minutes

Findings

Intuitive

Found the flow for new recipes very intuitive

Positive

All were positive about the usefulness of the app

Features

Wanted larger images, videos and easier way to see older recipes

Designs

Paper Wireframes

I wanted to quickly draw out how one would use the app to find fun kids cooking recipes.

Digital Wireframes

Low-fidelity Prototype

Launch Low-fidelity Prototype

Mockups

High-fidelity Prototype

Launch High-fidelity Prototype

Accessibility Considerations

Thoughts of speech to text for searching

Visual contrast was considered in color choices for design

Videos of restaurants will have Closed Captioning options

Takeaways

Impact

The hope is that educating kids at an early age to make fun healthy meals and snack will in the long run; will lead into a healthy lifestyle. Thus lowering the risks of common health issues such as diabetes and heart conditions.

What I learned

I have learned that users want to have fun while creating healthy snacks and meals. Having an app that is simple and enjoyable to interact does bring the joy of healthy cooking.