MealMate
Your personal online nutrition assistant
Personal project, completed as part of a UX/UI Career Foundry course.
Sole designer responsible for UX research, user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI design.
Mentored by two instructors and received feedback from two UI/UX designer peers.
Challenge
Finding recipes that match their dietary preferences and restrictions.
Understanding and maintaining a balanced diet.
Staying motivated to consistently track and improve nutrition habits.
Solutions
Custom Recipe Matching – Filter by diet, ingredients, and time.
Personalized Meal Suggestions – AI recommends meals based on diet and preferences.
Flexible Progress Tracking - Simple feedback and visual goals keep users motivated.
Process
Research & Analysis: Examined the existing market, studied competitor apps, and pinpointed user pain points. This helped shape our app’s core features and validate the overall concept.
User interviews: Conducted brief sessions to gather real-world insights on user struggles, motivations, and needs. Discoveries included a need for flexible, friendly, and intuitive tracking features.
Hypothesis: Assumed users find most nutrition and meal-planning apps either too restrictive or too complicated. By offering quick, adaptive solutions (like AI-powered suggestions), user engagement and consistency would improve.
User Persona: Developed a primary persona representing busy professionals who value simple meal suggestions and progress tracking. This persona guided design choices like easy filtering, fast logging, and motivational feedback.
Wireframing & Prototyping: Created low- to mid-fidelity wireframes for user flows, then refined interactions based on feedback. Early testing ensured the layout and navigation stayed uncluttered and intuitive.
Visual Design & Style Guide: Applied clean typography, bright accent colors, and consistent iconography. The goal was to balance an energetic look with readability, reinforcing a healthy, vibrant brand.
Next steps:
Expand task flows based on new user insights.
Conduct further usability testing to finalize design improvements.
Conclusion
Mealmate streamlines meal tracking and promotes healthier habits. Our design, shaped by user interviews and competitor insights, focuses on intuitive navigation, quick logging, and engaging visual feedback. Early tests confirmed a clean layout and effective progress cues.
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