FlavorSync
Recipes don’t inspire if you can’t connect with them. I designed a cooking experience that understands your taste by pairing flavors, ingredients, and preferences to make every meal feel personal.
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Introduction
Problems
Ideation
UI Design
Prototype
Results
The users
FlavorSync targets food lovers ages 20–45 who enjoy cooking and sharing as part of their lifestyle. They crave inspiration that feels personal, want to connect with like-minded cooks, and look for platforms that make discovering and sharing recipes fun, easy, and social.
The product
FlavorSync is a mobile app that personalizes recipe discovery through flavor profiles and social sharing. Users can explore dishes tailored to their tastes, follow friends, remix recipes, and build a shared digital cookbook—turning everyday cooking into a connected, community-driven experience.
The goal
Create a recipe platform that drives engagement through personalization and social interaction—encouraging users to return, share, and build lasting connections around their love of food.
The problems
People love discovering new recipes—but most platforms make it a disconnected experience. Users jump between apps and feeds, searching for meals that fit their tastes or diets. Recipe discovery feels impersonal, and sharing is limited, making it hard to build real connections through food.
How might we make discovering and sharing recipes feel more personal, collaborative, and socially engaging?
The solution
Allow users to connect through shared tastes by joining community groups of like-minded cooks. Each recipe includes hashtags so users can easily explore related dishes and trends. A notification center keeps them updated on new followers, posts, and mentions. By creating a social ecosystem around cooking, FlavorSync turns finding recipes into a shared, ongoing experience.
Introduction
Problems
Ideation
Lo-Fi mockups
Lo-fi wireframes helped test user flows early, focusing on functionality and hierarchy before visual design. These early structures guided the transition into higher-fidelity designs, where branding and interaction came to life.
Prototyped how users browse and join cooking groups, aiming to balance social engagement with an easy-to-follow layout.
Mapped how users explore recipes through hashtags and search filters, emphasizing navigation clarity and content grouping.
Defined how users save, view, and organize recipes—testing simple list and grid layouts to see which felt more intuitive.
Explored layout options for displaying personalized recipe cards and interaction buttons, focusing on hierarchy and scannability.
Introduced users to FlavorSync with a simple splash screen featuring the app logo and a clear sign-up button—testing first impressions and entry-point clarity.
Outlined a basic structure for showing user info, posts, and activity, focusing on logical organization before styling.
First draft Hi-Fi mockups
These initial structures laid the foundation for the first round of higher-fidelity designs, where branding and interaction began to take shape. This stage also introduced the new notification tab.
UI Design
Final Hi-Fi mockups
Refined visual design and interactions that bring FlavorSync’s social cooking experience to life.
Bringing people together through flavor.
Instead of scrolling through endless feeds, I designed the social page to help users connect with people who cook like they do. From joining flavor-based communities to following inspiring creators, this page turns discovery into genuine connection.
Prototype
Check out the Hi-Fi prototype
Dive into FlavorSync and see how cooking becomes social. Explore recipes, join communities, and experience how taste-driven connections come to life.
Bringing people together through flavor.
I designed the community page to make recipe discovery social and personal. Users can share their creations, follow others with similar tastes, and find inspiration through real connections—not just algorithms.
Bringing people together through flavor.
Staying connected should feel effortless. I designed the notifications page to keep users updated when friends share recipes, new followers join, or someone interacts with their post. It keeps FlavorSync feeling active, personal, and community-driven.
Final Hi-Fi mockups
Refined visual design and interactions that bring FlavorSync’s social cooking experience to life.