FAST - Restaurant Reservation Mobile App Design Challenge

Welcome to the “FAST - Restaurant Reservation Mobile App Design Challenge". The goal is to create a simple and easy to use Mobile App where users can make a reservation and experience a new way of enjoying food.

Read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. Let us know if you have any questions in the challenge forum!

Round 1

Submit your initial designs for checkpoint feedback
01) Table Reservation
02) Table locator
03) QR Code Menu
04) Live Food Experience

• As part of your checkpoint submission, you must upload your submission to MarvelApp so we can provide direct feedback on your designs. Please include the MarvelApp URL in your notes.txt
• Make sure all pages have the correct flow. Use the proper file numbers, (1, 2, 3, etc.)

Round 2

Submit your final designs with all checkpoint feedback implemented
01) Table Reservation
02) Table locator
03) QR Code Menu
04) Live Food Experience
05) Rating and Review
06) Payment

• As part of your Final submission, you must replace your checkpoint submission with the final submission into MarvelApp so we can provide direct feedback on your designs. Please include the MarvelApp URL in your notes.txt
• Make sure all pages have the correct flow. Use the proper file numbers, (1, 2, 3, etc.)
• If you're not submitting in the Checkpoint/Round 1, you are not eligible to submit in the Final/Round 2

• Name: Janet Brigs
• Jobs: Food blogger / Food enthusiast
• Goals: Having a pleasant experience when dining in a restaurant.
• Wants: 
  • Simple way to make a reservation and have a pleasant dining experience.. 
  • Easy to find reserved table.
  • Better experience viewing the menu and ordering the food from her phone.

• Janet and her husband want to celebrate their anniversary at a fine dining restaurant in her town. She opens the app and tries to input the restaurant name and make a reservation for two people over the weekend. After inputting the date and time, she can access a screen where she can see the layout of the table in the restaurant and decide to have outdoor seating. She then gets confirmation that her booking is set.
• When Janet and her husband arrived at the restaurant, she received a notification that they arrived at the restaurant. After she taps on the notification, the App opens and shows a layout of the restaurant and guides them to reach the table that she chose earlier.
• At the table, there is a sign suggesting she can view the menu and order using QR code. She scans the QR code and sees a menu with food photos with name, price, and brief information about the food. She then selects the food and drink she wanted to order and puts a note that her husband is allergic to gluten. 
• When the food is served, she then takes a photo of their food using the app and can see three buttons where she can - View the ingredients on the food, Watch a video on how the food was prepared, and Chat personally with the chef. She chooses to watch the video while waiting for another food to be served.
• After finishing the food, she leaves a 5 star rating and comments about the food they order which is fabulous and makes her anniversary a success.
• She then proceeded to the payment screen. After reviewing the total amount, she selects to pay using a credit card and taps the pay button to confirm.

• Modern, simple and clean look & feel.
• There is no branding guideline provided, so it’s up to your discretion on how the app will look like. 
• Seamless and easy to use navigation.
• Reduce the number of interactions required from users as much as possible

• Creativity: 10
  • 1: barely new ideas
  • 10: a utopic product with features not proven to be able to be fully implemented
• Aesthetics: 10
  • 1: low-fidelity design, wireframe or plain sketch
  • 10: top-notch finished looking visual design
• Exploration: 10
  • 1: strictly follow an existing reference or production guideline
  • 10: open to alternative workflows/features not listed here that would help the overall application
• Branding: 5
  • 1: don’t care at all about the branding just functionality
  • 10: without a properly branded product there is no success

• When making table reservation, user should have options like:
  • Date/time
  • Number of diners
  • Seating preferences (outdoor, indoor seating)
  • Button to Submit the booking
• When the user taps the Reserve button, a notification about the booking status is shown (confirmed in this case).

• When user arrives at the restaurant, he/she gets a notification saying: “You’ve arrived at the restaurant”
• Show a map/layout of the restaurant (dummy maps should do for the challenge purpose) and guide the user to reach the table. 

• This is a screen where users can see the menu and order the food.
• On the table, user see a card saying to scan the QR code to see the menu and order.
• Provide a Camera screen to scan a QR code, once scanned, show a menu.
• User can navigate the menu: see the food and drink list with price and brief information about each items.
• User can select on a dish and beverage, select the quantity and a text field to provide special instructions.
• User then confirms his/her order and gets a status that the order is confirmed with how long the order will arrive.

• Purpose of this screen is to let users get closer to their food.
• When the food is served, open the app and tap on camera view to scan/take a photo of the food. Once done, show three options/buttons:
  • View Ingredients: Tap on this, shows a list of ingredients in the dish with a note of from where it was sourced. For eg: ½ TSP coriander – Reliance Fresh, Devanahalli
  • View Video: Tap on this to show a floating video clip of the process of how the dish was prepared. For challenge purposes we can have a placeholder.
  • Chat with Chef: Chat/Messenger type screen allowing the customer to talk/interact with the chef.

• We need you to upload your screens to Marvel App
• Please request for marvel app in the challenge forum
• You MUST include your Marvel app URL (in your marvel app prototype, click on share and then copy the link & share it with your notes/comment on this link while you upload)

• Submit JPG/PNG image files based on Challenge submission requirements stated above
• MarvelApp link for review and to provide feedback
• Declaration files document contains the following information:
  • Stock Photos Name and Links from allowed sources
  • Stock Art/Icons Name and Links from allowed sources
  • Fonts Name and Links source from allowed sources