Divvie App
For this project, I challenged myself to a 5-day design sprint to create Divvie, a cooking app designed with neurodivergent individuals in mind—though its features can benefit anyone.
What is Divvie?
Divvie is an app that addresses the often-overwhelming process of preparing meals by helping users organize and pace cooking tasks, ensuring every dish is ready on time.
If you're cooking with a partner, the app efficiently divides tasks to make collaboration seamless. With customizable settings to enhance focus, Divvie aims to make the kitchen a more inclusive and stress-free space for everyone.
Design Goals
Reduce distracting content when possible, presenting one step at a time.
Engage users through clean design, clear language, and an intuitive structure.
Include customizable settings and alerts to help users stay organized as needed.
Organize tasks effectively for users who may feel overwhelmed by multi-step processes.
Enable seamless task-sharing between multiple people without adding unnecessary distractions.
Day 1: Initial Concept
The inspiration for this app came from my own challenges in the kitchen, as well as observations of the women in my family.
Personally, I often struggle to organize multiple recipes into an efficient, time-saving cooking plan. I also thought of my mother and aunt cooking together. While they’re both excellent cooks on their own, their excitement about spending time together often leads to distractions—they almost always forget a step when cooking together.
This app was born from real experiences and designed with inattentive ADHD’ers in mind—for people like us who need a little extra structure and focus in places like busy kitchens.
My aunt and mother
Day 2: Brand Development
By the second day, I decided to name the app Divvy, but upon discovering that the name was already in use, I explored alternative spellings. I landed on Divvie, which I loved for its almost-palindromic quality and playful feel.
While searching for color inspiration, I was drawn to the juicy color of cherries. The lowercase “d” in a sans-serif font reminded me of a single cherry, and the concept of “divvying” a pair of cherries perfectly aligned with the app’s purpose. I wrapped up the day refining the logo design and building a cohesive color library in Figma.
Day 3 - 5: Systems, Wireframes, and Polish
Next, I created basic components and variants to ensure consistency and efficiency as I moved forward. Once these elements were in place, I identified the key screens the app would require.
With the groundwork laid, I dove headfirst into designing the app. Given the fast-paced nature of this 5-day challenge, I made real-time updates as I progressed, refining designs on the fly while maintaining focus on delivering a cohesive and functional user experience within the limited timeframe. The final day, I went back through and made any last adjustments and resolved comments I had left myself along the way.
Result
After five intense days of hard work, I’m incredibly proud to have created something meaningful. In the future, I plan to gather feedback on this concept to refine and improve it further. I also hope to develop additional prototypes to showcase its potential. Stay tuned—there’s more to come!