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SMART PANTRY COOKING APP

Year
2026
Industry
Food Tech
Client
Self-Initiated Concept Project
Project Duration
3–4 Months | Research, UX & Visual Design
Chef Eat, UX UI case study, recipe app design

OVERVIEW :

This project is a recipe app presented as a final thesis in the UX UI course at Hakeru Academy.

The assignment is to think about personal pain points from the students' daily lives, manage preliminary research and design an app that solves the pain point that the student came up with.

Chef eat offers recipes that are based on the user's refrigerator and pantry and allow them to work freely without touching their smartphone.

Kitchen overview

PROBLEM:

Usability
A lot of people don't know how to combine a product in more than one recipe.

Inconvenient Use
Hands get dirty during recipe preparation and users have difficulties with:

  1. Unlock the screen
  2. Scroll through the recipe instructions

Quantities and Servings
Users don't know how to adjust quantities and don't have the right benchmark.

Filter
Users search for recipes in several parameters such as time, cook difficulty, vegan, cuisine type, replaceable ingredients, and they have difficulty to find the right recipe that suits their needs.

Organising the pantry

SOLUTION:

Camera Scan
Users use their phone's camera to upload products to the app and the app offers them suitable recipes.

Voice Command
Users can use voice commands to scroll upwards and downwards without touching the smartphone.

Screen Lock
An in-app button that controls the smartphone screen lock.

Cup scan and servings matching
Features that allow users to set the number of servings and calculate the quantities of the recipe and they can also scan their existing cup to understand the measurements.

Smart Filter
That offers users several options to find the right recipe for them.

Scanning the pantry

PROCESS

UX process diagram

SURVEY

Survey results

FEATURES

Feature list
App in use

PERSONA

User personas

COMPETITORS AUDIT

Competitor analysis
Brainstorm
Mockup collage

USER FLOW

User flow

LOW FIDELITY

Low fidelity wireframes
Low fidelity exploration

HIGH FIDELITY

High fidelity wireframes

MOOD BOARD

Mood board

TYPOGRAPHY

Typography scale

COLOR

As part of the mind map, we gathered images and took a color sample.

Finally, we decided to pick orange, which is a mouth-watering color and also a symbol of health and happiness.

Color palette

Illustrations

As part of the graphic language, the illustration bolding the personal message. In its fun way, it helps to deliver fast the story we want to tell.

People cooking illustration

Recipe images

Colorful and rich images in hi quality to provide the flavors and fragrances.

Recipe photography

Ingredient images

Divided from any other object on a white background to increase the user's self-confidence in the scan mode.

Ingredient photography

ICONS

Rounded corners and shapes to continue the rounded graphic language.

UI icons

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