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Easy Meals

Salmon with Brown

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Emily Weinberger

Published: 4/23/24

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Uploaded to Receta: 5/15/24

Homemade Baked Lasagna

Brandie

Published: 3/27/21

Uploaded from: The Country Cook

Uploaded to Receta: 1/23/24

Sheet Pan Sausage,

Peppers, and Onions

Sheela Prakash

Published: 6/7/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 2/2/25

To Die For Fettucine Alfredo

Erin Marie

Published: 2/12/18

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Uploaded to Receta: 3/12/25

Stuffed Peppers

Rian Handler

Published: 12/9/24

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Uploaded to Receta: 3/23/25

Chicken Nuggets

Jose.elCook

Published: 3/20/25

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Uploaded to Receta: 4/24/25

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Lazy Pasta

FitGreenMind

Published: 3/28/24

Uploaded from: YouTube

Uploaded to Receta: 1/23/24

Bibimbap

Kay Chun

Published: 4/13/22

Uploaded from: Bon Appetite

Uploaded to Receta: 7/18/24

Broccoli Beef Ramen

Stir Fry

Nick Evens

Published: 11/4/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 3/14/25

Ranch Chicken Crockpot

(Crack Chicken)

Valentina Ablaev

Published: 8/20/22

Uploaded from: Valentina’s Corner

Uploaded to Receta: 4/24/25

Healthy Sides

Jicama Salad

Elise Bauer

Published: 1/10/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 4/14/25

Spicy Cucumber Salad

careesekwok

Published: 2/20/25

Uploaded from: TikTok

Uploaded to Receta: 3/16/25

Desserts

Soft and Chewy Sugar

Cookies

Tessa Arias

Published: 9/30/21

Uploaded from: Handle the Heat

Uploaded to Receta: 3/15/25

Grandma’s Cookies

Grandma

Published: Sometime in the 90’s

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Uploaded to Receta: 4/10/25

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Easy Meals

Salmon with Brown

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Emily Weinberger

Published: 4/23/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 5/15/24

Homemade Baked Lasagna

Brandie

Published: 3/27/21

Uploaded from: The Country Cook

Uploaded to Receta: 1/23/24

Sheet Pan Sausage,

Peppers, and Onions

Sheela Prakash

Published: 6/7/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 2/2/25

To Die For Fettucine Alfredo

Erin Marie

Published: 2/12/18

Uploaded from: AllRecipes

Uploaded to Receta: 3/12/25

Stuffed Peppers

Rian Handler

Published: 12/9/24

Uploaded from: Delish

Uploaded to Receta: 3/23/25

Chicken Nuggets

Jose.elCook

Published: 3/20/25

Uploaded from: Files

Uploaded to Receta: 4/24/25

Favorites

Lazy Pasta

FitGreenMind

Published: 3/28/24

Uploaded from: YouTube

Uploaded to Receta: 1/23/24

Bibimbap

Kay Chun

Published: 4/13/22

Uploaded from: Bon Appetite

Uploaded to Receta: 7/18/24

Broccoli Beef Ramen

Stir Fry

Nick Evens

Published: 11/4/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 3/14/25

Ranch Chicken Crockpot

(Crack Chicken)

Valentina Ablaev

Published: 8/20/22

Uploaded from: Valentina’s Corner

Uploaded to Receta: 4/24/25

Healthy Sides

Jicama Salad

Elise Bauer

Published: 1/10/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 4/14/25

Spicy Cucumber Salad

careesekwok

Published: 2/20/25

Uploaded from: TikTok

Uploaded to Receta: 3/16/25

Desserts

Soft and Chewy Sugar

Cookies

Tessa Arias

Published: 9/30/21

Uploaded from: Handle the Heat

Uploaded to Receta: 3/15/25

Grandma’s Cookies

Grandma

Published: Sometime in the 90’s

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Uploaded to Receta: 4/10/25

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Chicken nuggets are super versatile, so you can pair them with a lot of different flavors depending on the vibe you’re going for. Here’s a quick breakdown by flavor category:


Classic Pairings:


Ketchup – sweet and tangy, always a go-to


Barbecue sauce – smoky, sweet, a little zippy


Honey mustard – sweet, sharp, and creamy


Ranch – cool, herby, and creamy


Sweet & Unique:


Honey – simple but really good with crispy nuggets


Sweet and sour sauce – especially good if you like an Asian-inspired flavor


Maple syrup – surprisingly tasty for a breakfast-style twist


Savory & Umami:

Garlic aioli – garlicky and rich


Soy sauce or teriyaki – for a salty, savory flavor


Cheese sauce – melty and indulgent

What flavors go good with chicken nuggets?

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Ranch Chicken Crockpot (Crack Chicken)

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Valentina Ablaev | Valentina’s Corner | Published: September 20, 2022 | Uploaded to Receta: April 24, 2025

Ingredients

Serving Size:

4 servings

2 lb

boneless skinless breast

2

garlic cloves minced

2 Tbsp

ranch powder

3 Tbsp

unsalted butter

1/4 cup

chicken broth

1/2 tsp

salt

1/4 tsp

ground black pepper

8 oz

bacon chopped and cooked

1 1/2 cups

shredded cheese

12 oz

cream cheese room temp

Steps

1.

Add the chicken breast, cream cheese, minced garlic, ranch powder, butter, chicken broth, salt, and black pepper into the crockpot.

2.

Close the lid and cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low for 6-7 hours.

3.

Remove the chicken and using two forks, shred the chicken breast.

4.

Add the shredded chicken, cooked bacon and shredded cheese back into the crockpot and mix. Cook just until the cheese melts.

5.

Serve as desired and enjoy!

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Easy Meals

Salmon with Brown

Sugar Glaze

Emily Weinberger

Published: 4/23/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 5/15/24

Homemade Baked Lasagna

Brandie

Published: 3/27/21

Uploaded from: The Country Cook

Uploaded to Receta: 1/23/24

Sheet Pan Sausage,

Peppers, and Onions

Sheela Prakash

Published: 6/7/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 2/2/25

To Die For Fettucine Alfredo

Erin Marie

Published: 2/12/18

Uploaded from: AllRecipes

Uploaded to Receta: 3/12/25

Stuffed Peppers

Rian Handler

Published: 12/9/24

Uploaded from: Delish

Uploaded to Receta: 3/23/25

Chicken Nuggets

Jose.elCook

Published: 3/20/25

Uploaded from: Files

Uploaded to Receta: 4/24/25

Favorites

Lazy Pasta

FitGreenMind

Published: 3/28/24

Uploaded from: YouTube

Uploaded to Receta: 1/23/24

Bibimbap

Kay Chun

Published: 4/13/22

Uploaded from: Bon Appetite

Uploaded to Receta: 7/18/24

Broccoli Beef Ramen

Stir Fry

Nick Evens

Published: 11/4/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 3/14/25

Ranch Chicken Crockpot

(Crack Chicken)

Valentina Ablaev

Published: 8/20/22

Uploaded from: Valentina’s Corner

Uploaded to Receta: 4/24/25

Healthy Sides

Jicama Salad

Elise Bauer

Published: 1/10/24

Uploaded from: Simply Recipes

Uploaded to Receta: 4/14/25

Spicy Cucumber Salad

careesekwok

Published: 2/20/25

Uploaded from: TikTok

Uploaded to Receta: 3/16/25

Desserts

Soft and Chewy Sugar

Cookies

Tessa Arias

Published: 9/30/21

Uploaded from: Handle the Heat

Uploaded to Receta: 3/15/25

Grandma’s Cookies

Grandma

Published: Sometime in the 90’s

Uploaded from: Files

Uploaded to Receta: 4/10/25

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After our personas and requirements were established, it is time to move into bringing those goals to life. The team collectively utilized the Figjam cloud-based software to visualize and design key paths and validation scenarios for both user types. The validation path is labeled in magenta and the key path in green.

Energy goes where energy flows

Prototyping

The sample above is not our full wireframe set. The full set is located on our Figjam. We based most of our designs from the wireframe above, however we did not account for the changes and extensiveness with our fine-tuning. We delegated a task of each individual to create 12-15 screens in Hi-Fidelity. However, this caused a little bit of inconsistency. Since we worked on the screens individually our UI was not universal. Later on, we all got together and made the adjustments accordingly. Utlizing a clean and simple aesthetic with a 50s color theme. In addition, we expanded on the used of an 8 pt grid for simple GUI programming, font styles, and text styles

Refining our flow and interactions based on past users

Usability Testing

Although we went through our designs many times. The designer is the one who fully knows the inside and outside of a prototype. However, we needed to see if our designs were simple to navigate and matched our users' goals. To gather evidence on how usable our application was, we conducted multiple usability tests with our past interviewees.

It all comes down to this

Final Iterations and flows

After gathering our data from our usability test, we saw that our users had some issues with navigation. So we utilized our featured recordings of the test to see potential gaps in our designs and fixed and debugged them accordingly. Based on the participant's feedback and decision,s we concluded with the following design iterations:

The Main Key path

Cook Book Flow

The main key path of adding a recipe to your cookbook via importing. This feature allows you to organize and sort your recipes in one place. This feature enables the extra extraneous information on recipe webpages and Receta gives you the important information such as recipes and steps

The Main Key path

Cook Book Flow

The main key path of adding a recipe to your cookbook via importing. This feature allows you to organize and sort your recipes in one place. This feature enables the extra extraneous information on recipe webpages and Receta gives you the important information such as recipes and steps

AI is moving fast

AI live recipe assistance

One of our team members suggested a live AI help feature for recipes. This was also suggested within our usability test. Thus, we went back to the drawing board add added a user friendly and easy to locate AI Receta help bot. However, we should have changed the AI graphic to make it look more distinguished.

What most recipe assistat apps lack

Social Group Chef Threads

During our interviews multiple user asked if they could have a feature to directly connect with other chefs for help. With Receta groups and chats this helps bridge the gap between chefs from all different backgrounds.

Receta: Your Recipes, Your Way

Final Prototype

From all our data collected from the market research, competitive audit, usability test, and other important metrics. We present to you Receta: The all-inclusive recipe organization and cooking assistant application. Disclamier: Still a working prototype.

Nothing is ever perfect, however everything requires progress

Final Reflection on the Project

For my first time working with an IAD team I can say it was a great time. We all bonded on a great level and it was simple to generate ideas. In addition, our scheduling was great we did need to spend many hours on our designs, but it was worth it. From research, wireframing, and communicating it was a good flow. Lastly, I want to pay my respects to my team Datsayana Medina, Anna Kahle, and Amanda Wallace for guiding me and providing the help the team needed

Experiences teaches everyone

Lessons learned

Things I learned for next time:

  1. Time deligations are the most important thing

  2. Universal components for UI is essential for consistency

  3. Time management could have been better

  4. Know the amount of work you are doing before starting the project

  5. Keep user goals always in mind

  6. UX may be important, however my sense on UI and color theory needs to improve

Bianca Frank Expectations

Kevin Landry Expectations

Ranch Chicken Crockpot

(Crack Chicken)

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Valentina Ablaev | Valentina’s Corner | Published: September 20, 2022 | Uploaded to Receta: April 24, 2025

Ingredients

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Serving Size:

6 servings

3 lb

boneless skinless chicken breast

3

garlic cloves minced

3 Tbsp

Tbsp ranch powder

4 1/2 Tbsp

unsalted butter

3/8 cup

chicken broth

3/4 tsp

salt

3/8 tsp

ground black pepper

12 oz

bacon chopped and cooked

2 1/4 cups

shredded cheese

18 oz

cream cheese room temp

Steps

1.

Add the chicken breast, cream cheese, minced garlic, ranch powder, butter, chicken broth, salt, and black pepper into the crockpot.

2.

Close the lid and cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low for 6-7 hours.

3.

Remove the chicken and using two forks, shred the chicken breast.

4.

Add the shredded chicken, cooked bacon and shredded cheese back into the crockpot and mix. Cook just until the cheese melts.

5.

Serve as desired and enjoy!

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Modeling/Requirements Phase

Receta cooking assistant/social connection app

Your Recipe orgnization, Your connectivity, and Your way

Overview


Receta is an all-inclusive recipe import and organization prototype. Our application allows users

to add recipes online or other application with ease. In addition, their is a social forum which is

utilized to allow users to connect with other chefs for culinary advice. The idea was pitch by our

team leader Datsayna Medina at Kennesaw State University.

Bleak Organization, lack of user cooking assistance, and lack of user freedom

The Problem

The Problem


My team and I discovered through our literature review and competitive audit that multiple recipe organization applications exist. Common patterns we noticed with these applications were user pay walls, bad user experiences, outdated UIs, and a lack of recipe and cooking assistance for users.

Laying our foundation

Problem Statement


This is where we define our problem to guide our research. Problem Statement: The current state of cooking/recipe applications has focused primarily on cooking blogs. What existing products/services fail to address is convenience, ability to pull from different sources, and user social interaction. Our product/service will address this gap by providing a fun and unique user interface for cooks to connect, find inspiration, and create their own personalized recipe books.

Hypothesis on user wants and goals

Persona Hypothesis


Through our own fine-tuning we broke town the user goals and behaviors. We concluded that most users should be beginners to cooking and need moderate recipe assistance. However, there is a second option for intermediate users who would require fine-tuning previously made recipes and customizations. With this information, we conclude that beginner users would need basic and simple features, while intermediates should be interested in more in-depth features such as social connection.

Used a variety of chefs with various skill level

User Research Interviews


We used our persona hypothesis as a framework for who we would recruit. Since our application can be used by a variety of users we needed to replicate this in our interviews. We selected 5 participants with a variety of cooking skills from pure beginner to experienced expert. We noticed that the beginner's main claims were the need fo cooking help and the experts just need a way to organize and share ideas. However, it really wasn;t until the experienced cooks had a goal of conveniently sharing recipes with others.

Behavioral Variables and Curation

Persona Creation


Based on our main observations, we developed behavior variables for each participant to find common patterns. These patterns were utilized to show and identify certain opinions on certain topics and goals. We discovered a strong and identifiable divisions between the beginner cooks vs the experienced cooks. Here we were able to determine that our prototype needed to enhance user freedom and social connectivity. Red represents experienced cooks while green is beginner

The people who we are designing for

Personas

Here are our personas: Bianca Frank, our primary persona that represents the common user in our prototype. Bianca is a small college student that is looking towards utilizing Receta to teach her simple and easy cooking techniques to fit with her diet. Kevin Landry, our secondary persona, he represents a rather more social user that is more familiar within the kitchen. His goal is to utilize receta to learn from other chefs and connect with others in his community

Goals for establishing Goal-Directed Design

Goals for establishing Goal-Directed Design

Persona Needs and Expectations

Here the team collectivly relized that our problem statement needed to change. We made the executive decision to add more in-depth information in our problem statement. "The current state of cooking/recipe applications has focused primarily on recipe importation and organization. What existing products/services fail to address is the ability to pull from different sources including video formats, education on cooking basics, and user social interaction. Our product/service will address this gap by providing a fun and unique user interface for cooks to create their own personalized recipe books, learn basic cooking essentials, connect, and find inspiration." Our problem statement helped us establish our persona expectations. We covered on requirements relating to communications, skill learnability, organization, and simplicity. Both personas share similar beginning and end goal, however it is the in between in where the requirements differ

Goals for establishing Goal-Directed Design

Goals for establishing Goal-Directed Design

Persona Needs and Expectations

Tracking our data and sorting it

Affinity Mapping


Within our interview process, we observed certain traits in our participants. Some we passionate about cooking other were just looking for an easy solution for their cooking routines. However, each person told a unique story. Based on each quality and trait we create affinity maps to map each interviewee's habits, information, challenges, wants, and needs. This data was utilized to form our user personas.

What did we discovered?

Observations


  1. None of our participants were 100% confident in their cooking abilities

  2. 3 out of 5 participants see cooking as a way of self pride

  3. Each person values simplicity and organization

  4. Each person is open to learning new things every day

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