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Duration: January 2021
Role: Designer, Developer
Skills + Tools: User Interviews, User Flows, Hi-Fi/Lo-fi Prototyping, Adobe XD, Swift, Swift UI, Apple Test Flight
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Relevant Links
https://github.com/kaolugo/motherHen
Ever have a very mismatched combination of foods in your pantry or fridge, and its not yet quite time to go grocery shopping, but you struggle to figure out what to cook for dinner with the ingredients that you do have on hand ? Mother Hen was designed and developed to help with just that !
The idea for this app was conceived with my mom in my mind, but my goal was to facilitate any user who cooks daily and protect them from running out of meal ideas.
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As this was a short passion project that I wanted to rapidly design and iterate through, I narrowed down the scope of the potential user base to primarily my mom and other moms who cook meals for their families on a daily basis. In order to understand user needs and specific pain points that moms encounter when meal prepping, I conducted a user interview with my mom to find answers to integral questions such as —
<aside> 💡 What is the biggest difficulty you face as a stay at home mom who is the primary person responsible for all meal preparations within the house ?
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<aside> 💡 Is there anything new that you wish to try within the kitchen ?
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<aside> 💡 Have you ever had thoughts or ideas along the lines of "this would be so much easier if I had xyz tools" ? If so, what were some of these thoughts ?
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My interviews with my mother uncovered several unexpected pain points as well as potential nice-to-haves that proved to progress into exciting design problems. Some of these discoveries were: