A modern booking experience for home-cooked meals.

CookSnap makes it effortless to find and hire verified home cooks — whether you need support for a single meal, a couple of days, or a long-term monthly plan.
A warm, intuitive interface built for families who rely on consistent, home-cooked meals but struggle with the fragmented offline hiring experience.

Project Brief

CookSnap is a mobile platform designed to simplify how people discover, compare, and hire home cooks.

The goal was to reduce the offline friction of word-of-mouth hiring by introducing trust, transparency, and structured decision-making into a clean digital product.

Timeline

4 Weeks

Research (4 days) · Wireframes (5 days) · UI Design (10 days) · Prototype (3 days) · Visual Polish (3 days)

Process

Branding → Research →
Wireframes → UI Design →
Prototype

The Problem

Hiring a home cook is still an unstructured, unreliable process.

Most people depend on word-of-mouth recommendations with no clarity on availability, pricing, or cooking quality.

There are very few platforms that make it easy to discover verified cooks, compare meal options, or book someone confidently.

This creates friction, uncertainty, and lack of trust — especially for users who rely on home-cooked meals daily.

The Opportunity

User research highlighted a strong demand for a single platform that makes hiring a cook as intuitive as ordering groceries.

Users consistently asked for:

  •  Verified profiles
  • Ratings and real reviews
  • Transparent, standardised pricing
  • Clear menus (Lunch / Dinner / Both)
  • Easy filtering by cuisine, duration, and meal type
  • Short-term and monthly flexibility

The Solution

CookSnap introduces a warm, trustworthy mobile experience with:

  • Verified cook profiles with ratings, specialty tags, and real customer reviews
  • Clear meal menus and transparent pricing
  • Airbnb-style filtering (cuisine, duration, member count, meal type)
  • Intuitive scheduling and booking flow
  • A visual system designed to feel familiar, friendly, and reliable

The result is a seamless booking experience where users can make confident, informed decisions.

A Warm & Approachable Identity

CookSnap’s identity blends comforting colors, rounded shapes, and clean typography to reflect the simplicity and trust users expect from daily home-cooking services.

Logo & App Icon

The logo combines a rounded “C” mark with a subtle cooking-bowl silhouette — symbolizing warmth, food, and service.

USER RESEARCH

CookSnap’s identity blends comforting colors, rounded shapes, and clean typography to reflect the simplicity and trust users expect from daily home-cooking services.

Pain Points Section

The logo combines a rounded “C” mark with a subtle cooking-bowl silhouette — symbolizing warmth, food, and service.

Competitive Analysis Section

Key Findings

Trust — Verified profiles, honest reviews, clean hierarchy

Comparison — Quick scanning, card-based layout

Simplicity — Warm, minimal, familiar interface

Meal Clarity — Transparent menus for every meal

Warm Identity — Soft tones, approachable visuals

Information Architecture

Wireframes

Final UI Designs

Cook Listing & Filters

IMPACT & LEARNINGS

Filter Experience Redesigned

Users expected a unified Airbnb-like modal.
Creating an all-in-one filter reduced decision friction and improved discovery.

Unified Meal Menu Display

Users wanted to see all menus upfront.
We unified Lunch, Dinner, and Both options across all tabs → higher clarity, faster decisions.

Improved Accessibility

  • Increased font sizes and weights
  • Higher contrast for important actions
    This improved readability for low-vision users and aided older audiences.

Outcome

  • Fewer booking steps → quicker results
  • Higher confidence → users felt “in control”

Summary

CookSnap transforms a traditionally unstructured offline process into a clean, trustworthy, digital experience.

By solving trust, pricing clarity, and meal transparency — the product empowers users to confidently hire the right cook for their needs.