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UX Design Contest #16

Design an AI-powered recipe ingredient substitution UX

Sponsored by Plant Jammer πŸ™

πŸ‘ This contest ended Mar 26, 2021

Winning Entries

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1st prize entry from Sabitha Shree, Nakul Sharma, and Suchit Thakkar
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2nd prize entry from Lixian Zeng
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3rd prize: Anna Malaeva & Mattias Di Masso

πŸ† Congratulations to Contest #16 winners! πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΎπŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸΏπŸ‘πŸ½

πŸ₯‡ 1st Prize

  • Sabitha Shree
  • Nakul Sharma
  • Suchit Thakkar

πŸ₯ˆ 2nd Prize

  • Lixian Zeng

πŸ₯‰ 3rd Prize

  • Anna Malaeva & Mattias Di Masso

Project Brief

Context

Plant Jammer uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide dynamic recipes for small brands, retailers, and large food & beverage brands. Because the recipes are dynamic, users can substitute ingredients and get real-time cooking instruction updates. The Plant Jammer team seeks focused inspiration from talented members of the UX Design community.

Problem

Early data shows lower-than-expected user-engagement with the current ingredient substitution experience. Increasing user engagement is important, because it can measured and leveraged to help Plant Jammer sell their solution.

Challenge

The portfolio-building challenge is to go from zero to one and rethink the experience of substituting recipe ingredients and share your ideas through 2-3 unique design concepts.

Opportunity

Get creative! With no real technological constraints, the AI-powered recipes can support pretty much any ingredient-swapping experience you can dream up.

Note From Adam

πŸ‘‹ Hi Designers,

I'm super excited to kick-off our first sponsored contest, which happens to also be our first AI-related contest. With help from Adrian at Plant Jammer, I'm proud to offer a challenge that tests your ability to get inspired and to inspire others through ideation.

Participating in this contest can be a fun way to practice a zero-to-one design process that exercises divergent thinking and data-informed decision-making. Moreover, I'm happy to announce that this contest will support 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners with even more prizes.

How does sponsorship impact this contest? πŸ€”

  • Real-world startup context
  • Increased impact -- your entry will provide inspiration for and can influence the sponsor's ultimate design decisions
  • More prizes -- It allows us to increase our prize offering for winning entries (100% of the sponsor's gift goes to contest prizes)

If you have questions, please contact me at hello@uxdesgincontest.com.

Happy Designing and Good Luck! 🀞

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Adam Ruf
Creator, UX Design Contest

Desired Outcomes

By participating in this contest, you will

  • Demonstrate zero-to-1 design project execution
  • Exercise divergent thinking to generate a variety of strong solution concepts
  • Leverage familiar UI patterns to design for an intuitive experience
  • Show how you leverage data to inform design decisions
  • Practice pitching a design direction
  • Use timeboxes to increase your productivity
  • Grow your portfolio with a real-world project case study
  • Have a chance at winning cool prizes

Prizes

πŸ₯‡ 1st Prize

  • $250 for your favorite charity
  • Video call with UXDC Creator, Adam Ruf
  • Personal case study review and suggestions for improvement
  • Direct design feedback from the Sponsor
  • Your winning entry featured on this page

πŸ₯ˆ 2nd Prize

  • $150 for your favorite charity
  • Direct design feedback from the Sponsor
  • Your winning entry featured on this page

πŸ₯‰ 3rd Prize

  • $100 for your favorite charity
  • Direct design feedback from the Sponsor
  • Your winning entry featured on this page

Contest Rules

  • Anyone 18 years or older can enter individually or as a team
  • Entries must be original work created for this contest
  • Only entries that meet all contest requirements will be eligible for winning a prize
  • The deadline to submit your entry is Friday, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:59PM Pacific Time
  • View full contest rules

How to Enter

  1. Read the project brief
  2. Spend some time with an example of Plant Jammer's current ingredient substitution experience
  3. Create 2-3 unique design concepts that reimagine the ingredient substitution experience
  4. Gather data to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your design concepts
  5. Write up a case study that
    1. Presents your process
    2. Highlights the strengths and weaknesses of your 2-3 design concepts
    3. Dives deeper into the details and microinteractions of the concept you believe can deliver the best ingredient substitution experience
  6. Submit your entry by 11:59pm Pacific Time Friday, Mar 26, 2021.

Judging Criteria

Criteria Weight
Divergent thinking
How many concepts did you explore? How different are the concepts?
20%
Ingredient substitution UX/Interaction design
How intuitive is the design? How does it encourage engagement?
30%
Data-informed decisions
What data did you use to make stronger design decisions?
20%
Visual design & polish
Are visual design principles applied well? Are the designs clean and beautiful?
10%
Case Study
How well did you show and tell about your process and the strengths and weaknesses of your design concepts?
20%

Education & Support

All schedules are tentative, check Twitter or YouTube for live stream announcements.

Divergent Thinking & Ideation Workshop

πŸ—“ Thursday, Mar 11 at 4:15pm PT / 7:15pm ET

Data-informed Design Concept Evaluation

πŸ—“ Thursday, Mar 18 at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET

Tools & Resources

    πŸ‘€ Inspiration

  • Dribbble

    Leveraging Dribbble to identify trends and strong visual design patterns can save you a ton of time.

  • 🧰 Tools

    Diagrams & Wireframes

  • Whimsical

    Easy tool for creating visually clean flow diagrams and wireframes

  • Autoflow Plugin for Figma

    Autoflow makes it easy to draw flows. Simply select 2 objects and a line will be drawn between them.

  • High-Fidelity UI Design

  • Sketch

    Vector-based UI design tool built for Mac

  • Figma

    Web-powered vector-based UI and prototyping design tool

  • Prototyping

  • InVision

    Create clickable prototypes for usability testing

  • Marvel

    Create clickable prototypes for usability testing

  • Super-Powered Documents

  • Notion

    Excellent no-code, document platform
    Free $10 credit when you sign up with the link above

  • Coda

    Another excellent no-code, document platform
    Free $10 credit when you sign up with the link above

Example Entry

Coming Soon πŸ‘€

Watch UXDC creator, Adam Ruf, on YouTube as he works on an example entry. See Education & Support for scheduled live design sessions.

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