Chili ID
Data educating app about chili peppers
Chili ID is an app designed for the purpose of data intervention, to educate chili pepper lovers around the world. Users will simply scan chili peppers or import images from their library to get informed about the name, taste, level of spiciness, origin, and so on. The app is designed to mimic the purpose of Wikipedia, for the users to get information in order to shop wisely.
Favourite dish
The initial idea came from the previous data story project about chili peppers. The data story project began with writing down dishes/desserts I like, and the food ingredients that are used to cook them.
Data story
The dish I chose was Yukgejang, the spicy meat stew in South Korea. The top ingredient of this dish was powdered pepper, so I started to research spicy chili peppers. The more I researched about it, the more extensive the data it became. Therefore, I decided to create a data story website that could organize & visualize the data I collected.
Link to data story - 'Spicy trends around the world'
The website contains a series of data visualization about chili peppers - chili pepper production, consumption in the world, hottest chili peppers and its Scoville units, and so on.
Data intervention
The next challenge was to plan and design a data intervention taking place in physical space. The goal was to engage the public with the app to educate and inform about the previous data story about chili peppers. I decided to design a chili identifier app to achieve my desired purpose.
Process - Adobe XD
The main graphics of Chili ID were first designed in Illustrator, then imported to Adobe XD to apply simple interaction and navigation.
Promotional ad
App interface
iPhone XS in Hand - Mock-up
Promotional website
I designed the website using a free template, to introduce various features of an app to the users.
Link to 'Chili ID' website (PC only)
How it works
App navigation