Mezze
Lebanese recipes, one step at a time.
A guided cooking app concept for Lebanese and Levantine dishes: one step per screen with timers and voice control, servings that rescale every quantity, a weekly plan with a shopping list, and family recipes in English, French and Arabic.
- Services
- Product design
- Mobile applications
- Experience design
- Technology
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
The home screen and a recipe page, with the dish, cooking time and a servings stepper above the ingredients
1 / 8The challenge
Cooking from a phone means scrolling a long page with flour on your hands, losing your place, and redoing the maths every time you cook for more people. Family recipes are harder still: they live in a notebook, a voice message or one person’s memory.
The approach
Mezze shows one step per screen, with a large illustration and short instructions, and moves on when the cook says “next step”, so the phone stays untouched. Each step can start its own timer, and several can run at once. Quantities are stored as real measures, so changing the servings rescales them with the rounding a cook would use. Family versions sit next to the classic recipe with the family’s own notes, in English, French or Arabic.
Designed around
- One step per screen, with big buttons for messy hands
- Voice control: “next step”, “back”, “repeat”, “start timer”
- Several timers running at once
- Servings that rescale every quantity, with sensible rounding
- A weekly meal plan and a shopping list grouped by aisle
- Family recipes kept next to the classics
- English, French and Arabic, with full right-to-left layout
