Shawn's Recipe Box - A Recipe Product Design Playground

Recipe products are their own hard little category. Photography has to look like food you'd eat, not stock. Instructions have to survive a splash of olive oil on a phone screen. Admin has to make adding a recipe feel like ten seconds of work rather than a data-entry job. And the collection has to feel curated, not scraped.

1. 01Designed each recipe as a physical-feeling trading card that flips to reveal the recipe, with a big image, a short story, and cook-friendly steps
2. 02Built an admin surface that supports pasting a URL, letting AI scrape and structure the recipe, and reviewing the result before it goes live
3. 03Wired AI meal-image generation for recipes that don't have a photo yet - grounded in the ingredient list and cuisine so the image actually looks like the dish
4. 04Added download, email and share flows so a visitor who lands on the Shawnarita or another recipe can actually cook it later without hunting through the site
5. 05Shaped the recipe voice to feel personal - Mediterranean-leaning, pescatarian-friendly, comfort-forward - rather than a generic recipe database
6. 06Integrated the recipe box into the wider About Game as a game surface: a card draw can flip into a full recipe with modal, share and save built in

• A curated recipe collection that feels handmade rather than scraped
• An admin experience that keeps growing the collection cheap - a URL and a click, not a form and a spreadsheet
• A working example of AI in the loop for a content product - generation, review, ship - with human editorial judgment kept in the middle
• A shareable output layer (download, email, share) that respects the visitor's time when they actually want to cook the thing