The Gourmets2016 Information Architecture

System concept statement“ Application for the users to have access to restaurants that provide specifically customized food”

- Users: busy people who have limited time to get the food they want in their particular taste.

- Contents: to provide such users with an food customization opportunity for themselves, so that they can

enjoy food specifically adjusted to meet their own taste through relatively simple and easy process.

- Context: To fulfill the wants of people who want to have food in their own taste of food have explicit/

unique taste in food.

4 Main functions of the appSearch restaurant/Restaurant/Feed/My page

Search restaurantFilter search methods by:

Nearby Restaurants

- As target users: People who are busy/limited time, it is crucial to show every possible customizable

restaurant within their parameters.

- Menus

- ex) Korean, Japanese, Chinese food and even within more specific type of food.

- Price range

- Presence of Parking lot

Kitchen- customize Customize by:

- Ingredients

- Add/drop desired ingredients from the food.

- Temperature

- Control by having certain temperature levels on a gauge.

- Spices

- Sweetness

- Spiciness

- Saltiness

- Control by gauge system.

- Making reservations

- Number of visitors

- Arrival Time

Feed- Recommendation of differently customized menus

- On feed by “like” system by other users.

- Filter by:

- Most liked

- Nearby restaurants/ customized menus

- Types of food ex) Korean, Japanese, Western.

My page- Personal Information

- Allergies

- Dislikes

- Previous History

- Makes it easier to select from previous records when revisiting the restaurant and ordering same

menu

- Saved Customization

- Other pre-saved customized menus users wished to eat later on

Overall information structure

Application

Placemaking

Capability of a pervasive information arch. model to help users reduce disorientation,

build a sense of place, increase legibility, and wayfinding.

- Transforming cyberspace of the application into a “place” that has emotional

attachment

- By using personalized “my page” for storing personalized information(home feeling)

- Ex) My own customization, my past meals

- The app gives an experience of participation over their food

Placemaking- Way finding methods

- Allowing easy orientation and interface of application for the users

- Associate with Navigation/ google map/ other application that provide guides through maps (in

order to help the users find the restaurants)

Metaphor

Entering “Chef’s Kitchens”

Exploring kitchens, menu, refrigerator, cooking place, basket of food, paper with recipe, user’s notebook, board of pins

Search Restaurant : Exploring kitchens

Search restaurant page : Sky view for various restaurants, filter, different sections

Select restaurant : entering restaurant

Menu : menu of restaurant

Select menus : check the menus to order

Kitchen- customize : Entering the kitchenIngredients : refrigerator and my basket

Cooking place (Customizing in app) : flavor, stove, cabinet

Adjusting Ingredients : drag and drop from refrigerator and my basket

Adjusting cooking : control flavors with gauge levels

Feed : board where people pin their papersFood feeds : paper pins

Filtering : reorganizing pins

Exploring board : fast review of pins

Selecting a feed : taking a paper pin off the board

Customizing the feed : adjusting the paper pin

My page : my note book

My history : diary page for past visited chef’s kitchen meals

My info : diary page for personal information

My saved customization : torn papers of customized recipes

Select customized meal : look through past scrap notes the person wanted to eat

Order customized menu to kitchen: ask chef to cook the specific recipe

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