Find your favorite food truck in seconds
- Client:
Personal
- Created:
January, 2016
- Service:
Mobile App Design
Opportunity
Provide the location of local food trucks to users based on the user's location.
Preliminary Sketches
First, I wrote out some initial thoughts about the app. I then spent a couple hours iterating with pen and paper. My goal was to make it as fast as possible to locate food trucks for the user. I ended up creating two views, a list view and a map view. The user opens the app and initially sees a list of foodtrucks in thier area without having to do anything else. The user can tap or swipe to view a truck's menu, get the trucks phone number or get directions or navigate to a map view of the food trucks.
Wireframes
After iterating through my sketches a couple times I created wireframes in balsamiq mockups. I included all of the initial functionality and added details of each view. The mockups included a way to set your favorites, share your experience on social media by taking pictures of your meal and posting to your network, as well as searching by truck name.
I decided there were too many features included in the design and that I needed to get to a more streamlined design. I stripped out several of the features and focused on getting the user to their food truck as fast as possible. Users needed the fastest possible way to get to their food truck of choice and that adding in a bunch of unneccessary features to start would kill ease of use and adoption.
View Mockups
Visual Language
After several rounds of iterating, both on paper and in balsamiq, I turned to photoshop to create the visual language and add style to the app.
