Sous Chef: Recipe and Meal Prep App

A mobile recipe discovery application designed as part of my UI Design coursework at CareerFoundry. The goal of the project was to create an intuitive browsing experience for home cooks while exploring visual hierarchy, navigation patterns, and mobile interaction design.

To understand how users would navigate the experience, I mapped the primary flows for discovering, saving, and viewing recipes.

How might we design a challenge experience that accommodates diverse wellness activities, supports multiple motivation types, and makes every member's contribution feel meaningful, regardless of what they track? That question became the foundation for every decision that followed.

The gameboard wasn't the first concept we explored. Early ideas included a purely goal-based format where all activities competed on the same scale, and a trivia layer for bonus tokens. Both got cut. The trivia concept was adding cognitive load on top of an already unfamiliar scoring system, and a single shared scale penalized members based on what they chose to track, which was exactly the equity problem we were trying to solve.