Chef’s Hat is an app we are creating to prepare and teach college students how to cook for themselves in a way that is easily accessible, affordable, and understandable. Some of the problems students run into are lack of time to prepare food, lack of knowledge on how to properly cook basic food essentials, lack of understanding on how ingredients work together, lack of money to buy the ingredients needed. Our goal with this app is to fight every single one of these problems.
We are a free and targeted at college students. We are providing easy to follow recipes based on the needs of the student. We will do this by having a short video to go with every recipe, a scaling feature so it is easily adaptable to the amount needed, a reverse search function so students can easily get recipes that use what they already have, a brief intro stating how many dishes will be used when making the dish, and options to filter recipes based on dietary needs/restrictions, a price range search, and a comments sections so students can share their personal results from the recipes. We believe the compilation of all these features will reduce the problems students face in the kitchen when they come to college.
Our goal for this quarter to create a layout of the app, decide which features were the most important, and get interview results. We accomplished all of these and would feel confident going into a second phase of design with this app.