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Trevor

fig 1: Trevor's first design

This is a very minimal design, allowing the user to simply type in what the user wants (eg. "Vegan Stir-fry") and get a resulting recipe page. 

fig 2: Trevor's second design

This is a more heavy-handed design than others, with a "basic and an "advanced" search ability: the former allowing one to search for a dish with certain dietary restrictions and the latter allowing one to search using the ingredients one has on hand.

fig 3: Trevor's third design

This design is a more visually-focused design, allowing one to choose their dietary restriction (or choose to further customize their dietary restriction. After choosing their particular dietary restriction, they will be brought to a page with popular recipes for their dietary restriction, a list of popular substitutions made for people with their dietary restriction, and the ability to search for particular dishes that adhere (or may be able to adhere) to their dietary restrictions.

Ben

fig 4: Ben's first design, front page

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Ben Bitdiddle, worn weary from a long day's work, wishes to cook himself and his girlfriend a delectable dish they both can enjoy. Given that his girlfriend can't eat gluten and he hasn't had much experience cooking her food, he turns to Vegitude for help. Being a fan of Mac n' Cheese (and knowing his girlfriend loves meals with a lot of cheese), he opens up the simple, streamlined website and simply types in "Gluten-free Mac n' Cheese with Tuna." He then presses the "Give it to me!" button. He is then transported to the result webpage, which consists of an outside website's recipe page for delectable Tuna Mac n' Cheese. At the top border of the webpage is list of possible substitutions for the recipe to make it properly Gluten-free, two navigation buttons to flip to different recipes for the same dish, and a search bar if one wishes to search for another dish. After clicking through a couple recipes using the "next" and "previous" buttons, he settles on one he likes. He cooks the dish accordingly, simply substituting the macaroni for some gluten-free macaroni as suggested in the top left segment of the page. 

Analysis

Wiki Markup\[todo\]The design, as a whole, worked for Ben. He typed in what he wanted, and the website gave it to him. At the same time, Ben was not given any nice display of choices. He was instead given a single result without easy access to others. Although Ben did use the next and previous buttons to look through a few recipes, this involves blindly traveling linearly from one recipe to another, which involves reloading webpage after webpage. In the end, it gives Ben what he wants, but not as efficiently or as nicely-presented as it should be. 

Design #2: Ingredient-Based

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