
What's Left
A recipe application concept that turns ingredients already at home into practical meal suggestions.
- Client
- What's Left
- Industry
- Ingredient-based recipe application
- Discipline
- Mobile Application
- Year
- 2025
Make it easy to move from available ingredients to recipes worth cooking.
- Mobile UI/UX design
- Recipe discovery flow
- Interactive prototyping
- React
- Next.js
- Recipe Matching
- Mobile UI
- Search UX
- 01 · The challenge
- 02 · The objective
- 03 · The solution
- 04 · The design
People often have usable ingredients but no clear meal idea, which creates repeated decisions and unnecessary food waste.
Make it easy to move from available ingredients to recipes worth cooking.
We created a recipe matching concept with ingredient entry, helpful filters, saved recipes and straightforward cooking flows.
A friendly mobile UI uses clear inputs, visual recipe results and short interaction paths for everyday use.

The work, up close.
Screens captured from the working mobile interface.


Drag to move between the two screens.
Both frames come from the same build — useful for seeing how the layout system adapts across the product.


What it runs on.
Chosen for this problem specifically — not a default stack applied to every project.
- 01React
- 02Next.js
- 03Recipe Matching
- 04Mobile UI
- 05Search UX
- Ingredient-based discovery
- Recipe filters
- Saved meal ideas
- Step-by-step cooking views
- Mobile-first search experience
Discover
Clarified the audience, goals and practical constraints.
Structure
Mapped the content, product flow and responsive hierarchy.
Build
Created the core interface and functional interactions.
Refine
Reviewed usability, responsiveness and presentation details.
A focused recipe product concept that helps users turn available ingredients into useful meal options.
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