Samsung Food: turn a recipe into the ingredients you actually need to buy
Samsung Food connects recipes, servings, and shopping lists. Its useful design step is the check before content becomes action: confirm portions, exclude ingredients already at home, then coordinate the shopping.
Form your own approach first, then explore the reasoning to check trade-offs and validation you may have missed. There is no single right answer.
Change dinner plans while someone is shopping
You manage a household meal-planning app. On Friday, two people create a shopping list for dinner for four. One has already left to shop when the other changes dinner to six people. Some ingredients are already at home and others have already been purchased.
- Design how a serving change reaches the shopper for confirmation. Decide which requirements update automatically, which need notification or confirmation, and how to distinguish “already at home,” “already purchased,” and “still needed.”
- Walk through this case: rice has been purchased, eggs have not, and one of the two extra guests does not eat eggs. Deliver a one-page rules proposal. Explain who must confirm more information, where overbuying or omissions remain possible, and what you would observe to improve the design.
Explore the reasoning
Separate the meal plan, shopping requirements, and purchases that have already happened. A serving change should not blindly overwrite all three. Compare automatic updates with proposed changes awaiting confirmation, and consider when the shopper can reliably know the list changed.