Farah Assir
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The New York Times

Making the best recipes discoverable

Product Design · Large team

The New York Times had thousands of high-quality recipes that weren't accessible to their digital audience. I joined the team building NYT Cooking, an app designed to make it easy to discover, cook, and keep track of recipes.

Homepage, recipe of the day
Mobile app homepage and saved recipes
Cooking guides for foundational skills
Seasonal collection, Thanksgiving guide
Homepage collections, presented for stakeholders
Individual recipe page
Curated recipe collections by season

Homepage, recipe of the day

What I did

  • Helped shape editorial collections and layouts in partnership with NYT editors
  • Contributed to tutorial video content teaching foundational cooking skills
  • Designed seasonal content collections and new page templates
  • Balanced editorial content with personalization to aid recipe discovery

Outcomes

  • Grew into a highly successful standalone subscription product for The New York Times