GNOME Recipe App is all about food. We all love food. We want the recipe appto be community driven. GNOME people all over the world will be entering theirfavourite recipes and also they will be able to cook delicious things usingthe GNOME recipes. This is not a new idea. Looking all the way back to 2007, the idea of a GNOMEcook book was already around. For onereason or another, we never quite got there. But the idea has stuck around.With the upcoming 20th birthday of GNOME next year, we thought that we shouldmake another attempt at this app, maybe as a birthday gift to all of us. Oncewe release the app, we will start to collect the content and print as acookbook. My talk will be shortly about how we decided to build the GNOME Recipe App asa community, how i started to work on mock-ups, how Jakub Steiner (design)designed them based on my mock-ups and how Matthias Clasen (engineering)implemented them. My real motivation with this talk to explain how we had fun while working onthe app and encourage designers to contribute open source projects more. I also want to talk about connecting the user experience, the technicalrequirements and the business requirements together is important in productdiscovery and development process. And for this, being a good communicatorbetween teams in an organization is a key to make sure that everybody is onthe same page. Many designers divides up building a product into two distinctparts – design and development. There is always some technical questions I’mreceiving from Matthias that can heavily influence my design decisions. Thosequestions should be asked and addressed as early as possible by talking withMatthias and Jakub. Recipe app starts and continues with discussions betweendesign and engineering. In terms of interaction, visual design and implementation, details revealthemselves as the product is being built. Instead of handing off pixel-perfectdesigns to the team, it is far more better to design alongside them as webuild it.