---
title: "Foodies Buddies"
description: "Dating app matching foodies by taste — in-app messaging, restaurant picker, and swipe discovery"
---

# Foodies Buddies

> Dating app matching foodies by taste — in-app messaging, restaurant picker, and swipe discovery

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| --- | --- |
| Role | Co-Designer |
| When | 2022, 4 months |
| Kind | Design |
| State | Completed |

What if you could find dates who share your passion for food — starting with a romantic dinner? Over months of collaboration, crafted Foodies Buddies, a dating app that matches foodies based on tastes and personalities. Packed with features like in-app messaging with restaurant picker, swipe/search/location discovery, and customizable profiles — a standout first design case study.

## What I built

- Swipe, search, and location-based discovery
- In-app messaging with restaurant picker
- Customizable foodie profiles
- Let's Dine 'n' Dive onboarding

## Impact

### Hard parts

- Standing out in a crowded dating app category
- Food preference as a matching signal
- Co-designing with a partner designer

### What it taught

- First end-to-end mobile case study
- Personality + taste-based matching UX
- Collaborative design process

## Stack

Figma, Mobile UI, UX Research, Prototyping

## On the 1970 tube

In the site's 1970 era this work plays as a small moving picture. Two plates drift together and a heart beats when they match; the pointer pulls them apart or together.

## Links

- [Behance](https://www.behance.net/arunkusriniva)
- [This work on the site](https://www.kiruk.in/work/foodies-buddies)
- [All work, as markdown](https://www.kiruk.in/work.md)