This document provides a system concept statement and information architecture for a mobile app that allows users to customize and order food from local restaurants. The app has four main functions: search restaurants, customize menus in the restaurant "kitchen", view recommended menus on the "feed", and view a user's personal "my page". Users can search nearby restaurants, filter by cuisine and price, and make reservations. In the kitchen, users can customize ingredients, temperature, spices, and sweetness/spiciness levels. The feed recommends customized menus using a like system. My page stores a user's info, allergies, history, and saved customizations. The app aims to transform the experience into a personalized "place" through navigation and metaphor

1. The Gourmets
2016 Information Architecture

2. 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.

3. 4 Main functions of the app
Search restaurant/Restaurant/Feed/My page

4. Search restaurant
Filter 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Overall information structure

9. Application

10. 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

11. 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)

12. Metaphor
Entering “Chef’s Kitchens”
Exploring kitchens, menu, refrigerator, cooking place,
basket of food, paper with recipe, user’s notebook,
board of pins

13. 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

14. Kitchen- customize : Entering the kitchen
Ingredients : 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

15. Feed : board where people pin their papers
Food 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

16. 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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26. Q & A