Meal Mates

Service and app concept that brings people together over shared meals. Research through to interface design.

Context

Studio+ with Accenture as client, NCAD third year 2025

Role

Team of three. I originated two of the three pitched concepts, Meal Mates and Lock In, and produced the wireframes and interface screens for Meal Mates.

Outcome

Concept pitched back to Accenture as an answer to social connection, welcoming communal spaces and conversation in student accommodation.

• 1 in 4

  Irish Gen Z affected by loneliness

• 69%

  First year students reporting severe loneliness

• 53%

  Irish teens with three or fewer close friends

• 3

  Accommodation test beds