Problems to solve:
- To introduce users to quick, 5-minute recipes
- To have a variety of meal recipes
- To allow users to use ingredients they currently have at their disposal
- To help users meal prep without a visual aid
"Alexa, Cook for Me"
UX CASE STUDY
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Voice Interaction Design
& User Experience Project
UX CASE STUDY
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Design Process
01.
Brainstorm
Research and Creating user persona's and system persona
User Stories & AWS Lambda
Updating code within Amazon Developer Console to match utterances and prompt ID's.
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Usability Testing
Using Amazon Developer console and WOZ testing. Finding pain points, adjusting code for further testing.
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Voice System Persona
Our Voice Interaction Design User Persona
Voice Interaction - User Stories & Scenario's
User Flow & Journey Map
Voice Interaction Design
Final Thoughts
A voice assistant is a wonderful thing, it can remind us of appointments, tell us the weather and send us directions. However, using voice for a recipe or cooking guide – presents itself difficulties without a visual aid.
I did however enjoy designing “Cook for Me” because as a voice assistant user myself, I quickly realized that writing out utterances and prompts within Amazon Developer Console proved to be challenging and I’m always up for a challenge.
For starters, as a human, we tend to say a lot more than we should and as a device, it often does not understand what we want.
I often find myself remembering a quarter of what Alexa or Siri just said. Taking those points into consideration, I realized I had to re-adjust my writing within the console.
By adjusting the prompts and possible utterances that our user could say, I challenged myself and put myself inside the users head, to define possible outcomes and emphasize with how they would use a recipe guide to quickly whip up a meal with a few things they have in their fridge.
Overall, I realized voice interfaces present challenges and need to be viewed differently to provide a good user experience.
While “Cook for Me” was my first voice interface design project, it certainly will not be my last.
