UX Sprint – Generational Recipe Preservation

Overview

Designed to preserve family recipes, adapt them for dietary needs, and retain cultural memory.
Role: UX Researcher & UX Designer (Solo)
Tools: Figma, Maze, Google Forms, Notion
Deliverables: Interviews, affinity maps, personas, test plan, wireframes
Notion Link: https://www.notion.so/Recipe-UX-Sprint-230119a41c8a80b0976eeef7837df859?source=copy_link

Problem

Recipes are often lost over time. Users struggle to store, adapt, and pass them down. Current tools lack emotional, nutritional, and accessibility-based support.

My Approach

• Conducted generational interviews (ages 20s–90s)
• Built affinity maps and user personas from responses
• Sketched wireframes of search, input, and view recipes
• Planned A/B tests for layout (book vs. cards) and substitution method (manual vs. auto)
• Maze plan created for future prototype testing

UX Decisions

• Maintained manual control over substitutions for authenticity
• Effort-based filters prioritized for modern cooks
• Tagged recipes by contributor and cultural context
• Planned multilingual support based on elder users’ needs

Final Sprint Outcome

Lo-fi wireframes sketched, A/B plan created, and Maze set up for future tests. Key flows validated conceptually but limited by Figma capacity for full prototype.

Reflection

This sprint showed how deeply food, memory, and technology intersect. Interviewing across generations revealed major gaps in current tools and inspired emotionally resonant UX thinking. I plan to expand this into a bilingual or family-sharing app next.