TLDR;
Overview
A mobile concept that helps food enthusiasts find compatible people, agree on a plan, and feel comfortable joining.
The prototype gave the team a shared direction and made trust-building requirements explicit before development.
The Problem
People liked the idea of meeting over food, but uncertainty about compatibility and coordination created hesitation.
My contribution
I translated trust and coordination concerns into a guided planning flow and helped the team prioritize what belonged in the first prototype.
01 / Understand
The real barrier was confidence, not discovery
Early conversations suggested that users could already find places to eat. The harder problem was deciding whether a social plan felt safe, compatible, and worth committing to.
I mapped the journey from browsing to arriving and highlighted where uncertainty caused people to drop out.
Key insight: social confidence needed to be designed before the booking flow.
02 / Decide
Make compatibility and expectations visible early
The concept introduced lightweight preference signals, clear group context, and a guided plan summary before users committed.
These decisions kept the experience welcoming without turning it into a complex matching system.
03 / Validate
Use the prototype to align the product team
Prototype reviews helped the team compare possible onboarding and planning flows using the same scenarios.
The work clarified which trust signals were essential for the first release and which ideas could wait.
Outcome: a shared product direction grounded in trust and coordination.
Available for product design roles
Let's make the next useful thing.
I'm open to working with teams that care about understanding the problem before polishing the answer.
hello@example.com- Based in
- Chicago, Central time
- Availability
- Open to full-time roles
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