The first step in this design process was to understand needs of the users and the pain points for a person when cooking. Initially, I used my own cooking experience to understand users’ problems while cooking and then interviewed three people to develop a list of the features that this technology would include:

• Compatibility with smart kitchen technology

• Recipe search, save, and input

• Ingredient communication

• Cooking technique search

• Cooking notifications

As a part of this project, it was important to explore how a specific person would use the ChefsTile. I built a persona for the target user. By using this persona, I was able to create a scenario that the person would be making a meal using ChefsTile. The storyboard (image below) illustrates the specific interaction with the ChefsTile and references the technology features that were defined above.

After I developed the storyboard, I received feedback from a person who could be a potential user of ChefsTile. His feedback included that notifications were pushed to the user’s cell phone and that the program should have simple commands to pause step-by-step instruction or repeat instructions. This feedback was noted an incorporated into later designs.

After initial sketches and storyboarding, I developed the high-fidelity prototype in Adobe XD, which allows the designer to share and test the prototype with others.