Chefs Feed

Chefs Feed is a San Francisco food media brand that flips Yelp on its head with restaurant reviews from local chefs. I worked here as Lead Interactive Designer on their iOS app and website.

Chefs Feed was a very early stage startup when I joined, and we enlisted the help of Portland creative agency Instrument.

The back-and-forth with Instrument helped us set the tone for the website we were working on in tandem with the app. I did the design and engineering for all of our in-house prototypes that we both implemented on the web and used as part of our feedback loop with Instrument.

I was very pleased with Instrument's intuitive understanding of our product's need to be at once something that was a little rough around the edges (a reflection of our chefs!) but also restrained enough that we could still fit in on a magazine rack. "How close to a punk flier can we get?" was something we spent a while refining.

We had a challenge in introducing a visual language and iconography that broke away from native UI but could also feel intuitive after a couple of uses.