Bake Me Now

Personal Feb 2024 - June 2024
Project Overview
This is my first project in the UX design course from the Google Careers Certificate. I chose my own prompt “Design a mobile application for a Bakery ordering system”. Most of my research was done with friends and family. But it was a great experience to try and solo a full UX design cycle for an app.
My Contributions
I did everything in the project since it was a solo project. I started with research, wireframes, prototyping, more research, a mockup, even more research and finally a high fidelity prototype.
A preview for a bakery's app with a hero image of brownies!
Research
User research including user journey, 2 personas, competitive audits and report and a goal statement.
The research consisted of competitive analysis, reporting, personas, user journey maps, interviews and user testing. I took all this research to create the first set of wireframes on paper and then transfer those to digital wireframes on Figma.
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Wireframes drawn on paper.
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Digital versions of the paper wireframes on Figma.

Then a usability study was done and changes were made in the mockups according to the feedback.

Buttons were added for better navigation and divisors were added to separate categories.

Showing the change in the cart page before and after the usability study, including more buttons and a consistent navigation bar.
Showing the change in the home page from wireframe to mockup after the usability study.

The medium fidelity prototype was created on Figma. I took the mockup, added some more screens according to the user flow and added the interactions between pages.
Prototype

The full mockups for the app including 7 pages and 2 sections.

What's Next

Impact

I was pleasantly surprised at how many people found the design clear and not cluttered despite the fact that I had to add so many items in it. Users were not overwhelmed while using the app. I was also able to stick to accessibility considerations including text hierarchy, colour contrast and less graphics. Being able to get user feedback throughout the process is invaluable.

What I learned

As I was designing for a fake bakery, I was able to create every component from scratch. It would be interested to work on a product with a pre-existing design guide. My biggest shock was completing the competitive analysis and realising how many large companies have no accessibility features on their websites while the smallest, local company did.

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