Appendix - Cooking With Roux

Personas

Shawn Persona
Morgan, Proto-Persona for Cooking With Roux
Roux System Persona
Roux, System Persona for Cooking With Roux

User Stories

Provide recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks:

  • As a busy professional, I want to search for simple breakfast recipes on the weekend to maximize my free time.
  • As a user, I want to find recipes that can be utilized for meal prep or leftovers for lunches so I can save time getting ready in the morning.
  • As the user Morgan, I want to find new dinner recipes to prepare; so I don’t fall back on the same meals after a long day.
  • When I am driving home from work, I want dinner recipe options so I can stop by the store and grab ingredients if necessary.

Use the recipe while cooking:

  • While preparing my meal, I want ingredients listed in groupings so that I don’t get overwhelmed or have to listen to long lists of items.
  • As the user Morgan, I want instructions provided in a sequential, efficient fashion to feel confident I’m doing things correctly.
  • As a user, I want the option to repeat any instructions if I need clarification or don’t hear it properly.
  • While multitasking, I want to be the one to push the instructions forward so I can prepare the meal at my own pace.
  • As a user, I want clear, descriptive instructions where I can easily understand what I’m trying to achieve.

Sample Dialogues

As a busy professional, I want to search for simple breakfast recipes on the weekend to maximize my free time.

  • U: Recommend a brakfast recipe.
  • S: Certainly! We can prepare a tuna frittata, a hearty egg dish with potatoes and dollops of sour cream baked in. Cook time is 25 minutes. How does this sound?
  • U: Can you recommend something faster?
  • S: Of course. I have a recipe for avocado toast, topped with a fried egg and sprouts. Cook time is 10 minutes. Say ‘Get Started’ or ‘More Options.’
  • U: Get started.

As a user, I want the option to repeat any instructions if I need clarification or don’t hear it properly.
The user is progressing through a recipe with the help of the assistant.

  • S: Step two, add diced potatoes to the heated pan with olive oil and cook until they start to brown.
  • U: (Alt 1) Repeat.
  • U: (Alt 2) Repeat that.
  • U: (Alt 3) Repeat step two.
  • S: Step two, add diced potatoes to the heated pan with olive oil and cook until they start to brown.
  • The user completes the step and is ready to proceed.
  • U: (Alt 1) Next.
  • U: (Alt 2) Next step.
Example conversation between Morgan and Roux
Example conversation between our user, Morgan, and Roux, the system persona.

Voice Script

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