Veni aims to revolutionize restaurants recommendations for people. It helps people to find wehre to eat, who to go with, and share their enjoying moments to provide the new food experience. I created the design of the whole app.

The Brief

It’s Friday night and your stomach is caving in on itself, but you and your friends have been stuck in a cycle of “What do you want to eat?” and “Hmm…” for over half an hour. 

​Veni was born in one of such a night. Instead of browsing tons of unfamiliar restaurants and spending time on reading plausible Yelp reviews, you will be attracted by the salivating dishes particularly tailored to your specific tastes on Veni

Eat socially

In our research, we found people don’t trust the reviews on Yelp, instead, people mostly listen to friends’ suggestions and follow foodie influencers’ recommendations. Diving into it, Friends share the similar interests with us and influencers are like “authorities” to us, they are the people we highly trust on making decisions. 

​Understanding this, I designed the intuitive and quick flows to help people find the best spots and view social recommendations.

Some Pages of Veni

1. Daily refreshed recommendations

Homepage is a daily destination with recommended restaurants from your past tastes, real-time geographic info and your social circle activities. Here I featured friends/influencers’ activities on the pictures as they can greatly accelerate your decision making. Also I introduced the “foodprint” concept to make friends/influencers activities more lifelike.

2. A deeper restaurant page experience

Restaurant detailed page provides the basic information (name, cuisine type, location, etc) and displayed your friend’s foodprints at this restaurant. You can also see the dishes recommendation -- this comes from our user research, we found people wish to be recommended with the specific dishes when you go to the restaurants. Veni also recommends similar restaurants and the nearby restaurants you might be interested based on your historical data.

3. See friends posts

On restaurant detailed page, you are able to view your friends’ posts about the restaurant, ratings and comments. By doing so, you can quickly decide if you want to go to this restaurants or not.

4. Indulge your inner foodie by exploring more

With the explore tab, not only you can search restaurants, but also you’ll see the full customized content in a new light. Veni recommend people for you to follow, these people can be your friends’ friends or online foodie influencers, you’ll also be interested in what good restaurants your friends have been to recently. Explore tab keeps you in the know about everything happening in areas you care about, and get inspired for your next culinary adventure.

​5. Share your posts to help your friends

Veni is teeming with people taking delicious photos and hashtag what they’re eating. You’ll also be attracted to post photos and share reviews for restaurants you’ve been to, and this in a way helps your friends to try the restaurants as well.