Batch notebook
Inspect an illustrative food-development batch with ingredient references and observation notes.
Back to work
- Food development journals
- Product concept
Fermentra
Fermentra brings food development journals into a visual workspace built around the records, decisions and reviews that shape the work.
Project overview
Fermentra is a product design concept for food development journals. Development batches are hard to compare when ingredient versions and observation notes become separated. The scope connects four activities: batch notebook, sample shelf, observation timeline, recipe revision. Each has a dedicated screen, with a batch notebook with photographic sample strip and structured observation panels establishing the visual direction. The work includes interface composition, proposed feature architecture and industry-specific showcase imagery.
The challenge
Development batches are hard to compare when ingredient versions and observation notes become separated. A useful workspace must preserve the connection between the original reference, the selected record and the discussion around a change. Showing more information alone would not resolve that handoff.
- Keep batch identifiers and ingredient references connected to the selected work.
- Make version comparisons visible at the point where decisions are reviewed.
- Retain review stages and archive search through the handoff.
Our solution
The design starts with a batch notebook with photographic sample strip and structured observation panels. Inspect an illustrative food-development batch with ingredient references and observation notes. The remaining views separate exploration, coordination and review into layouts suited to their content. A brick red, oat and olive palette gives the product its own visual identity, while selected-record panels keep details close to the working surface.
- Inspect an illustrative food-development batch with ingredient references and observation notes.
- Browse labeled sample photographs by batch and review stage.
- Compare dated batch observations on a visual timeline.
- Review ingredient-list changes beside tasting notes and version comments.
Key features
Inside the platform
Inside Fermentra
Four original food development journals interface concepts. Records, technical values and depicted workflows are illustrative.
Technology stack
The results
The design establishes four distinct food development journals views and a proposed set of twelve feature areas. The visual system prioritizes the working object and its context rather than repeated metric cards. A next validation would ask a practitioner to move from batch notebook to recipe revision, identify the selected record and retrieve the relevant review stages. These are design deliverables, not measured business outcomes.
4Specialized concept views
12Proposed feature areas
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