Kiko is a small recipe app for people who cook on weeknights. The founders had good recipes but an app that made you pinch, scroll and tap with floury hands.
I designed the screens and built the front end in React Native. Every screen has one job, big targets and warm colours that feel like a kitchen rather than a spreadsheet.
The brief
Kiko needed an app that worked while you cook. That meant text you can read from an arm’s length away, buttons you can hit without looking, and no surprises when the screen dims.
What I built
A recipe opens on a single card with the dish, the time and the number of servings, and one button to start cooking. The ingredients come next as a checklist, so you can tick things off as you gather them.
Then each step gets its own screen with a large timer. Where a step says “roast for 25 minutes”, the timer is already set. The screen stays awake while you cook and the controls sit at the bottom, where a thumb reaches them.
I kept the palette to cream, tomato red and a warm yellow, and tested every screen outdoors in bright light to check the text stayed readable.
