SipSwipe

Context

SipSwipe is a mobile product concept for adults of legal drinking age who are new to tasting. The app helps users explore drinks through flavour, vibe, mood, and social context, then turns repeated swipe interactions into a personal taste profile over time.

Problem

• New drink explorers often lack the vocabulary to describe what they like.
• Traditional catalogues can feel dense, brand-led, or hard to personalize.
• Preference signals need to be captured without making the experience feel like a form.
• A portfolio-ready product needed a real data model, auth flow, persistence layer, and fallback mode.

Design Goal

• Make discovery feel playful and lightweight through swipe-based interaction.
• Translate likes, passes, and diary activity into a readable taste profile.
• Support real persistence with Supabase while keeping local mock mode available.
• Separate data access from UI state so the product can scale feature by feature.
• Design community and activity surfaces that extend the product beyond one-time discovery.

Key Features

• Explore sessions with 8 swipeable drink cards and a Today's Taste Snapshot at completion
• Taste profile surfaces including Taste Mix, Today's Taste, Liked Bottles, journey, and session counts
• Sip Diary with one persisted drink log entry per user per date
• Sip Circle community feed with activities, post creation, search, and sort
• Sip Stamps earned from local activity questionnaires and saved to Supabase
• Repository pattern that keeps Supabase calls out of UI components

Outcome / Reflection

SipSwipe helped me connect product design with full-stack implementation. The core challenge was not only making swiping feel fun, but also designing how each interaction becomes useful product data across taste state, diary entries, community activity, and future recommendation logic.

Design Process