Finalize Design

The changes I made from the recommendations



On the introduction page I updated a lot. First is changing the typeface size and color, followed by left aligning everything. It was suggested that I use less of the green color for text and changed the body text to a dark grey. It was also felt I had a lot of information on one page and to spread it out to give it space to breathe. So, I broke it up into two pages that separates the material. Part of these changes was to improve the hierarchy of the text to improve the flow of reading it.

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After Part One  

 After Part Two

On the meal page instead of a button to “add points” I changed it to “scan receipt” this would allow a better form of adding points and would show the user is just not pushing buttons to add points to get a higher rating.

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One of the recommendations I got was to include something showing an item that falls out of the tolerances of the users. I made a “no go” icon to inform users this not something the application would recommend you eating.

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A few things I may have not mentioned before is the feedback that i felt did not benefit the application but note it anyway for awareness.

It was mentioned not to use green because of color blindness, This doesn’t mean someone don’t see the color but would not see it as the true color and most likely see as a shade of brown. I don’t think this is a problem that needs to be addressed.

That sliders don’t work well on mobile devises; With this being an experiment only, I feel the sliders show a better idea of what I am trying to express.

I was informed during the Worldwide Technology visit that I had broken a number of HIPA laws for the information I was asking for. Since this is not going past the prototype phase I don’t think I am going to did into the details I need for legally asking for personal information.

One of the recommendations was to move away from a point system and move to a badge system instead. Part of this was there was too many reward levels, but as with games like candy crush you never know how high a user will climb. This would be a complete rewrite of the program and didn’t want to restart that is a very similar system.

Last was to not have sign in on the opening page of the app. I personally feel that is a design choice because a number of apps I use have some form of log in on the first page.




Here is a link to the final version of my Culture Cuisine app

https://xd.adobe.com/view/ea7b4a66-9f94-4303-4473-74a7448d9d4b-9c4a/

User Testing

This week we had user testing with three different people, Here is who I reviewed my app with.

Hannah – Student

Students tend to be more adventurous with trying new things and tend to be more tech savvy than most people. Had some trouble with finding the next step but seemed get through it easily.

Hannah comments were

Maybe messing around with making icons for your "haven't tried yet" vs "tried it". I think some sort of emoji face or a picture of a before and after of a plate will make that section a little more playful. Also check to make sure you're giving the information on your screen room to breathe since there is a lot to look at per page.

Other than that, I think it looks good! It is a neat idea and I think your scoring system would encourage people to try new food.

Overall good feedback from someone that understands what I am trying for.

Tim and Katie – Worldwide Technology

They design things like this in real life, the feed back from them is what the world would push back on your ideas.

Tim was the original host, but Katie showed up and took over.

Spending over time going over the other students’ project so I gave them the best elevator pitch I could, and they reviewed the first few pages of the app. The feedback was very professional, way more than I could ever attain at the amount of time and training to complete the project.

Many aspects of the problems where seeing things that are guidelines that they felt was standard.

Issue one was green should not be used due to color blind people not seeing the color, then using a long on page as one of the first pages. On the instruction page, they felt center aligned type was difficult to read, font size was to small and again not to use green coloring. Many federal and corporate guidelines where spouted out I lost track of what she was complaining about.

The personal information pages were skipped over because they felt they would not, and no customer would give out they type of person information.  The map page was the final page tested and immediately could tell it was a false map, did not like having real details and commented they don’t want to see artificial places.

The feedback given was at a professional level that I feel we were not ready for. If they understood that before going in or better communication of expectations of the judging, the outcome would been better.

Felt like I was asked to build a go cart in two weeks with no instructions, then needed to ask Nascar drivers if I can race professionally with it.

Vanessa – Wife

She has always like to travel the world and try new foods in different cultures.

Went through most of the pages, liked the ideas of allergies and tolerances but questioned what a menu item would look like if they did have the issue; “Would the food be blocked or have some type of alert or warning about the issues that might arise.

Had the idea that in place of the points to use a badge system like Pokémon go, so it is more about collecting.

Question about how to get the points when purchasing the meal. Plan on placing a scan receipt page to help fix that.

Feed back was over all good, Like the idea of trying new types of food based on cultures she was not familiar with and feel I got some good recommendations from her. 

Design Write Up

After making minor changes to pages like formatting and adding buttons that should already been included here are a few major things that I changed in my wire-frame.

First is the instruction page, after getting feed back and thinking it over I found that including a instruction page might help people understand what the application was about.

It shows the levels of the "game" and gives a good over view of what the app is trying to do.

Next up that I added the the wire-frame is the friends page. As with most things in life, it makes it better is when you can challenge and beat your friends at something. This is a leader board showing your current placement with your friends with the same app.

Another thing that came up in my pear review of the wire-frame was to have some type of award page once you ate a meal, clearly showing what you just added, where you are currently and required points to the next level.

As a part of adding more and better detail, I went with showing the tolerances of the meal directly on the page it is discussing. Also added a plus sign to the food clearly showing you get points for going to the ethnic restaurant and additional points for the type of meal you select that will give you what you total will be.

Still need to come up with ideas how to add the information of receipts or some type of how they added new meals to the list.

Wireframe Prototype

Here is the link to the XD file for the Cultural Cuisine project.

https://xd.adobe.com/view/11e9df50-06dd-46bb-451d-462988a2a09f-67d8/

I wanted to make a app that allows people to experience other cultures through food. Hence the old saying of  "breaking bread" If people would try what others eat of authentic food from their original countries I think more people would get along.

User Experience

My user experience decisions started with understanding the users allergies and tolerances. With the app being focused on foreign foods that might have things that someone might avoid or impossible to eat do to not matching the users taste pallet.

Second is understanding the users background. If someone is very familiar with the foods from the Far East, the app should not award them for trying food of this type.

At the core of the app is an award system. This shows the user and other people how open they are trying foods that might never cross in front of them. 

A history of what was eaten and what points were collected is always good in a app that is all about collecting points for eating foods you are not comfortable with.

Final choice was to have a search that could pull up any type of information. It could be a restaurant, to a type of food to a cultural you want to understand before ordering food from there. Also would be included would be the different point levels for the type of food, restaurant or both.

Wire frame Mapping

Wire frame plan is the opening screen of log on, this is a first-time user screen or continuous long on because personal information is stored that is not truly confidential but don’t want everyone to know about any food allergies you might have. 

Starting with the set-up pages, you would enter your location and personal information. The additional information would maybe be food allergies and heat tolerances. This allows the software to tailor select meals that matches their profile, it also takes in account previous items ordered and liked. 

Next would be the information on the food and cultures they came from 

Finally would be a map showing the locations of the restaurants and the rating of the food they have.

Personas

My persona is a couple that loves to try new restaurants and experiment with food choices.

Ideate

The designs for Perceptions & Abolishing Barriers was to make something to allow people to experience other cultures through it. 

My first idea was to have a test allowing people to give their standing on impersonal bias but show a light and dark of the screen as the test goes on. Only to find out at the end the color is how bad or good you are with dealing with bias. 

My second idea was to make a Pokémon type game where people would go around to international authentic restaurants that have cultural correct meals and after trying them collect points for the experience. It would be based on your heritage and travel as a starting point and try to find food out of your comfort zone.

The last idea is to have a yelp type of app similar to the Pokémon but more detailing foods, their origins and cultures. It would be more focused on food types and information on cultures that originated them.

Here are my notes and Sketches