RegioBioMatch

Community kitchens in Heilbronn and Hohenlohe want more bioregional food on the plate. Small producer structures, limited processing, and fragmented logistics mean nobody shares one view of what is available and what is needed.

RegioBioMatch was funded as a technical feasibility study to test whether a digital service could match canteen menus with regional organic supply.

I joined as designer without a formal backlog — only workshop boards, domain experts, and loosely structured research scattered across documents and calls.

My job was to synthesize that chaos into testable flows: journeys for producers, processors, and canteen planners, then wireframes and prototypes the team could react to.

Kitchens plan menus around what the algorithm can actually match — registering a canteen, composing recipes, and seeing which regional bio products fit each dish based on seasonality, quantity, and certification.

Producers and wholesalers expose what they have in a searchable catalog — so kitchens can understand regional inventory before committing to a menu, and suppliers gain planning security from clearer demand.

The hardest part was not the UI — it was finding the right model inside noisy research. Once the three actor types and the two-database logic clicked, the interface followed.