
Celestial Seasoning Tea Recipes
Celestial Seasonings are famous for their fragrant teas. The up coming holidays are the perfect times to launch this app for tea infused recipes with aromas to bring in a crowd.
The Solution is to making an app that brings the recipes using their their tea from their website to the tables would bring success.

My Role
Concept Developer, UX Researcher & UX Designer
My Process


RESEARCH & FINDINGS
Comparative & Competitive Analysis
Insights:
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Site with Recipes have apps but no shopping list.
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App reviews all ask for shopping list.

Next Steps:
Reviews, Tips, Photos and Rewards are future features that are predicted but not tested to increase traffic
Survey
10 Questions
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9 Responses
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Mostly:
Women
Ages 27-43
All use Recipes
Affinity Map
Survey Results:
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Photos
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Ingredients
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Instructions
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Reviews
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Ease
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Time
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Extra Features
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Findings from C&C, Survey and Affinity Map:
Through the C&C and Affinity mapping the key MVPs were a shopping list, reviews, photos, ingredients and instructions
Branding

Typography
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USER PERSONA

Mindy Wright
32
Mom & Wife
Mindy has a large family that is rough, rugged and full of energy. Each year she enjoys hosting and cooking for friends and family. Christmas and Thanksgiving is at her house. With split loyalties during football her house can get charged with rivalries. To bring some new flavors, Mindy pulled up recipes using her favorite teas.
Hobbies:
Cooking & Hosting
Likes:
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Fresh ingredients
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Clear Cooking Instructions
Dislikes:
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Ingredients lists that does not populate into shopping list
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No pictures of the final product
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No video of the steps used for the recipes
Mindy's Journey
Happy Path
Enjoys favorite Celestial Seasoning Tea
Reminded of old family holiday recipe
Sees App icon on box
Downloads App
Explores App that downloaded
Finds List of recipes
Recognizes an entrée recipe
Views ingredients
Missing some ingredients
Uses Shopping List feature
Buys ingredients
Makes entrée
Taste just like lost family holiday recipe
Tries Recipe Again
Taste Even Worse
Gives Up
Call around for Recipe
Try from Memory
Missing something in the flavor
Unhappy Path
APP FLOW
User Task:
Users tasked with creating a shopping list from a recipe

Soup Page
Use List Generator Button

Landing Page



OnBoarding Pages

Recipe Page


Home Page

Bengal Spice Mushroom Soup Page
Shopping List Page

Login Page
User Testing​
PAPER
PROTOTYPE
Tested by:
2 Users
3 Users
Main Take Aways:
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Simple to Use
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Gray out unusable buttons
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Issues using back button


NEXT STEPS
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Challenge
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Keeping the basic features that are needed for a recipe app
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Outcome and Results
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Clean and simple solution for a small surprising wonder
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What’s happening
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Recipes can be found for tea
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Shopping has become easier
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What’s happening next
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Features and testing
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Photo sharing
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Rewards
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Recipe Saving
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