A mobile application for individuals with Celiac Disease to find safe restaurants and recipes.
Overview:
CeliACT is a mobile application for individuals with Celiac Disease to find safe restaurants and recipes to ensure a healthy gluten-free lifestyle. As someone with Celiac Disease, I saw an opportunity to bring our community together through the app's features to make everyday life easier.
Process Overview:
Research
User Personas
2. Discovery
Card Sorting
3. Interaction Design
Wireframes
4. Iteration
Year
High-Fid Prototype
2021
Duration
Nov 2-5
Tools used
Nov 2-5
User Personas
At the outset of this project, it’s important to collect the target audience's data to find overlapping information such as goals, motivations, and personality patterns, in addition to their frustrations and needs. Through the persona testing, it was found that all of those diagnosed with Celiac Disease have difficulty finding restaurants with gluten-free options with no cross-contamination. Likewise, the majority of these individuals rely on word-of-mouth recommendations and ratings. These users live busy lives and don't have the time to call ahead restaurants to see if they have gluten-free options or time to try out a recipe that they are unsure of. Mila and the other users prefer easily accessible information with realistic reviews for Celiac individuals.
Discovery
Card sorting is an effective technique in information architecture that aids in organizing the users' targets. I ultimately decided to organize an open card sorting session, to allow users to freely assign the categories and stack order as they please. Of the 15 cards, the most common navigation categories were the profile, restaurants, and recipes.
Wireframes
Taking the interviews and card sorting into consideration, I then began to sketch out possible wireframes based on the information architecture reported by users.
High-Fidelity Designs
Iteration & Reflection
This was the first case study I fully designed by myself back in 2021. Although this was a mock UX case study, it taught me the design fundamentals and research processes that go into an application. The final high-fidelity designs have gone through several iterations, for both organizational and call-to-action purposes, thus leading to the final mockups above. The purpose of including this case study in my portfolio is to express my growth as a designer and researcher.
