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Briefing
Vegans, vegetarians, lactose-intolerant individuals, gluten-sensitive individuals, and other people with dietary restrictions have trouble finding recipes that fit their needs.
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- Changed the phrase above the dietary restriction buttons from "What can't you eat" to "What are your dietary constrictions so as to match better grammatically
- Added a blurb about substitutions to the recipe page so that it was more obvious that substitutions are something that the interface deals with
- Changed the pop out custom bubble so it looked less like a pop up that needed to be dismissed and more like an extension of the button
- Created grayed out or pressed down buttons for the Custom and Vegan buttons so we didn't have to color and uncolor them
- Removed the dietary restriction symbols and key from the results page
- Changed the three recipes so that they were all types of Pad Thai since it didn't make much sense that a Pad Thai search would only return one Pad Thai recipe; used the same recipe content as before for all three options, but created headers for each recipe so that there were three recipes to choose from
Presentation Feedback
Questions, comments, and suggestions after presentation:
If you have profiles on the site or cookies on the page, you might be able to have pre-selected dietary restrictions for returning users.
This is true, and we might consider implementing an idea like this in a later iteration. Also, if we include profiles, we can also more easily store previously browsed recipes and even possibly have people submit their own recipes.
It would be a good idea to throw something on the right-side of the results page when it initially loads. Right now it kind of wastes space.
That is a good idea and will probably be implemented in our next iteration of our design. It will help balance out the page and make it easier for the user that doesn't want to have to peruse the left-side if in a hurry.
You might want to implement a toggling, not only between substitutions and originals, but also between the different dietary restrictions.
This is a possibility, but I don't think that would necessarily help our users, as our site aims to help find recipes that fit or can be modified to fit all the dietary restrictions chosen by the user. Toggling between them might be a neat feature, but, if the person is cooking for all of those dietary restrictions, they wouldn't need to look at a subset of them. The case to the contrary might be a person cooking the same dish for people with differing dietary restrictions, but we'd have to decide whether or not designing for this particular case is worth making our website less simple and streamlined.