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About Restaurant Diet Finder
About Restaurant Diet Finder
A client wanted to see an innovative restaurant food diet app for people who struggle finding meals at restaurants that meet their dietary restrictions. This involved inventing an app that provides ways to find restaurant meals suitable for peoples’ dietary restrictions which was named Restaurant Diet Finder.
Business Challenge & Opportunity
Business Challenge & Opportunity
During 2017-2018, according to CDC, more Americans are following a diet to improve their health issues. They tend to struggle finding meals at restaurants that suit their dietary restrictions. This can hurt their social life especially when it comes to social gatherings at a restaurant. Restaurants tend to struggle as well to meet their customers' dietary restrictions. Therefore, the Restaurant Diet Finder app will help customers find meals at restaurants that meet their dietary restrictions. As restaurants showcase their food in each available diet meal on the menu that could lead strong to customer traffic and loyalty.
How can the app provide people a way to find restaurants that serve meals according to their dietary restrictions?
UX Goal
UX Goal
Creating a simple and stress-free experience for people to find restaurants that provide meals suitable for their diet restrictions
It details restrictions, diet management information, and a networking opportunity for diet followers
As for the short duration of the time, there will be brief discovery research, competitor research, wireframe designs, and prototype launching.
Business Impact
Business Impact
Increase customer loyalty towards restaurants
Increase customer satisfaction rates
Increase customer confidence level
My Role
My Role
UX Designer: Establishing a project plan on Diet Finder, Sketching wireframes
UX Research: Brief discovery research from articles. Competitive Research on Food Diet Apps/Websites
UI Design: Creating wireframes and an interactive prototype
Collaborators
Collaborators
Solo
Methodology
Methodology
Discovery research from articles discussing the current issues users' face on diet restrictions in regards to restaurants and social life
Competitive research on food apps that provide diet meals at restaurants
Gathering feedback on the prototype
Creating sketches, wireframes, interactive prototype
Tools
Tools
Figma
Paper & Pencil
Research
Research
Scope
Scope
Due to the short timeline, the research was focused on learning about the current issues people face when finding diet meals at a restaurant. Competitor research was used to identify companies with websites and apps similar to Restaurant Diet Finder.
Results
Results
Discovery Research
Discovery Research
At least 45 million Americans are on a weight loss diet each year
According to CDC in 2015-2018, 17.1% of U.S adults aged 20 and above were on a special diet
According to Time, the nightmare issues behind following restrictive diets can be missing the social life in which friends do not follow similar diets
The other crucial issue people face is asking waiters and waitresses about the specific meals to meet their diet restrictions
Competitor Analysis
Competitor Analysis
The competition would be Healthy Dining Finder and Food Tripping
Healthy Dining Finder Analysis
Pros
Allows users to search for nearby restaurants that provide healthy meals to buy.
When a user clicks on a restaurant, they can see the list of healthy meals and the nutrition facts. The nutrition facts lists calories, sodium, etc.
Cons
Users would have to pay for the app
Food Tripping Analysis
Pros
Food Tripping provides healthier options besides fast food while driving on a road trip
Cons
Not an intuitive app due to search filter not working
Only one diet selection filter which is Vegan & Vegetarian
Created on Adobe XD
Recommendations
Recommendations
The Healthy Dining Finder could be a useful idea for the Restaurant Diet Finder
Provide the list of meals from each Restaurant based on each restrictive diet
As for the discovery research, the Restaurant Diet Finder should include a social networking option for people with dietary restrictions
UX Design
UX Design
Provide the sketches of the diet wireframes and gather iterations from the team
Create the digital prototype
Results of UX Design
Results of UX Design
Sketches
The goal of the wireframe project on Restaurant Diet Finder is to present a clear structure and the flow on how a new user goes through the app
Ensuring the design layout provides familiarity for the user to avoid the extra time going through the menu options
Involve a journey of the user discovering the Restaurant Diet Finder app for the first time
Created with pencil and paper
This showcases the user already filled up the profile on preferred diet and researches the restaurants that serve the gluten-free meals
1. Created the restaurant finder design similar to Yelp so the user is familiar with the language and layout that makes it intuitive so it will reduce the time for users to explore.
2. The user decides to click on Zoe’s Kitchen that serves Mediterranean food and it also provides her Gluten Free dishes. Zoe’s Kitchen shows the cuisine ratings, distance, and the hours it opens. I drew icons that presents labels underneath to show the list of diets
Digital Prototype
Digital Prototype
Created the diet choices within the user profile
Designed a user profile for diet buddies
Changed the label from new buddies to diet buddies
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned
Discovered the emotional impact that users face while going on a restrictive diet at a restaurant and social gatherings
Learned unique approaches that competitors provide discovering diets at a restaurant, such as providing healthy meal options along with calorie count for each user
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