Overview

Chef’d is a part of the Two Igloos Client Project that was undertaken through the second year of the User Experience Design program. My hardworking team, as well as myself, had the opportunity to work with clients based in the United Kingdom, looking to expand their ideas out across Ontario. Chef’d functions in a similar way to applications such as UberEats and DoorDash, but with a bit of a twist. Rather than ordering food directly to your home, an individual has the opportunity to order an entire experience, right to their doorstep.

Chef’d allows a user to order a catering service from local restaurants in assistance to hosting events and special occasions. The user has the ability to select time slots, desired food, and even a preferred caterer. For years, it has been a hassle to arrange catering services, but with Chef’d, the process becomes much simpler and allows a user to make an event truly one to remember in just a few clicks.

Brief Ordering Process

The Journey

The final product for Chef’d took approximately 8 weeks to fully develop. In this timespan, planning, brainstorming, sketching, meetings, and designing all took place. To begin this journey, it was important to lay out a roadmap that outlined how exactly we wanted to achieve our final product.

With this roadmap, this enabled the group to plan much more accordingly based on our goals for each week. To begin the project, it was critical to lay out every idea possible. This was done collaboratively with sticky notes and all ideas were taken into consideration, whether or not if they seemed to be out of the scope. We formed three distinctive groups for these notes, “What are some problems?”, “How might we…?”, and “Parking lot”. The first two groups outlined some potential roadblocks that we may run into, while the parking lot were ideas and issues that may not be as much of a concern.

If you would like to view the entire project, please follow this link to the Figma site in which the final prototype was established.