Seasonal Food

The problem

In seasonal food contain more vitamins and nutrients than at other times of the year. Dishes with seasonal fruets and vegetables have delicious, natural taste and seasonal food is important for helth.

User research

For the research process, was decided to surveys to better get to know what users need. Surveys are a great first look at the customer environment because they provide real data. Were surveyed around 20 peoples to get a more rounded perspective on the users needs and pain points. This research helped to create two user personas.

Solution

The app lets know what fruits and vegetables are in season now, nutrient information and vitamins seasonal vegetables and fruits contain, and let know how to keep them fresh. The app helps find recipes that may prepare from seasonal food and hides recipes with unsuitable ingredients for the user.

The first screen that appears at the entrance to the app is the home page. The home page finds actuality seasonal fruits and vegetable list, also there are dishes list with can cook to use by seasonal ingredients. On the Home page appear the user's season and location, which can change, also can use search to find the concrete dish.

Finding new recipes for seasonal dishes helps search and filter. There are many recipes category in filters, beginning with simples like cooking time and difficulty level finishing more complicated like Holidays dishes, ingredients to avoid and ingredients which need to exclude because they cause allergies or food intolerance.

List of the seasonal vegetables and fruits appears on the vegetables page. After click on one of them, user get some photos of a vegetable in different types and some main information about it. One of the most point in the App is dashboar: seasonal calendar, graphs of nutriel facts, minerals, vitamins and calories per 100 gramm. There are some advieses how to keep fruets and vegetables fresh. In bottome og the page user can see recepies list with this vegetable or fruet.

On finding more suitable dishes can help different categories like meals, diet, and cuisine. After the click on one of category, there is a list of recipes and the user can choose one of them.

Chose one of the recipes, the user can save, share, and watch the video with cooking. There are cooking time and amount of calories, amount of servings, list of ingredients, natural facts, and preparation.

On the profile, the user can exclude unwanted ingredients like allergic or intolerance ingredients. Recipes with these ingredients will be hidden. There are saved recipes on the user profile and the user can load a new recipe in the app.

Design system

The design of the app was inspired by fruits and vegetables. Two opposite colors were chosen as accent colors - orange - the color of carrots and green - the color of greenery. The application is very saturated with bright colors and photos, and one of the most comfortable fonts for reading was chosen to create balance.

Seasonal food

This app helps people to cook more natural food using fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables and stay healthy.