Press Release
Foodie Restaurant Recommendation Service by Tianyi Qi Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Tianyi Qi acknowledged for mobile technologies, applications and software design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Foodie Restaurant Recommendation Service by Tianyi Qi has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Foodie Restaurant Recommendation Service
Foodie is a mobile application designed to help people find restaurants through recommendations from friends. Sharing food preferences usually happens in offline conversations, and Foodie moves the exchange onto a digital platform for use at any time and in any place. The Friends screen shows updates and lists created by friends. The My Lists screen allows users to manage saved restaurants and to filter them by type. The Map screen supports searching for restaurants nearby or around a chosen location. Foodie is built for iOS devices.
About Tianyi Qi
Tianyi Qi is a product designer who is passionate about solving user problems with thoughtfully designed digital products that are both functional and pleasing to use. She has worked with organizations in public service, social impact, and product innovation throughout the product design process, from exploring problem spaces to design implementation. Her enthusiasm for design has extended to design strategy and research: as a mapping enthusiast, she organizes qualitative data in ways that reveal the systematic perspective of problems, define invisible connections and uncover unexpected solutions.
Award Record
This recognition makes Tianyi Qi a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Award
The A' Mobile Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good design in mobile industry by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to mobile designers, application developers, software engineers and user interface designers from all countries. Entries typically include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. Awarded mobile designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/mobile
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/136763
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136763
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136763
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/325908
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.qtytina.com/work/product-design-foodie
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Foodie Restaurant Recommendation Service
- Function
- Restaurant Recommendation Service
- Category
- Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Ghost White, Lavender, Cornflower Blue, Light Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tianyi Qi
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136763
Credits
- Image Credits
- 5: Tianyi Qi
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Foodie is a mobile app that aims to leverage the action of sharing personal preference with one's social circle, which happens mostly in offline settings, to a digital platform. This transformation allows this information-sharing process to expand beyond limited scenarios so users can create content and access information whenever and wherever they need it.
- Inspiration
- As a foodie living in New York City, I have been enjoying using apps like Yelp and Google to find restaurants, especially those that provide ethnic food that I have never tried before. However, I noticed that even though those apps are backed with big data, I trust my friends more in terms of finding restaurants. This experience makes me curious about this totally different mechanism of trust: How might we help people find restaurants from their friends' recommendations?
- Research
- I interviewed 10 participants between 20–40, all of them are Yelp or Google users. Participants were asked to arrange the cards with information sources to show how frequently they use and how much they trust each of them. The 3 major research questions are: 1. How and when do people use each information source to find restaurants? 2. What do people trust about each information source? 3. How do people recommend restaurants to their social circle? The results showed that social circle is the most trusted and the 2nd most used information source when participants are looking for restaurant recommendations.
- Challenge
- Why do users use this service when there are already other popular information sources/services existing around? Which was the major challenge I was facing at the beginning stage of the project. The research was designed and planned to answer this question.
- Realization and Technology
- The app requires a strong search engine, map and navigation service, and restaurant database to be functional.
- Operation and Interaction
- On the "Friends" screen, a user will see new updates from their friends, for example, a friend added a new restaurant to their list. They can also explore all the lists created by their friends. To manage restaurants on their own lists, a user can easily navigate to the "My Lists" screen. They can use the filters to easily find the specific types of restaurants on their lists. On the "Map" screen, a user can search for restaurants nearby or around a certain location.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2019 and finished in January 2020, in New York City.
- Specifications
- The app is designed for iOS systems.
- Keywords
- Social, Restaurant, Food, Application, Recommendation
