Success Story

Fisher & Paykel Appliances' Kitchen Assistant

Kitchen Assistant is a responsive and innovative addition to the global SmartHQ app, delivering a seamless guided cooking experience for users. Through an extensive design and technical build engagement, Fisher & Paykel's vision was translated into a go-to-market release.

Services

  • Digital Consultancy
  • Application Development

Deliverables

  • App Development & Modernisation
  • Digital Advisory
  • Business Analysis
  • Project Management

Fisher & Paykel Appliances is an award-winning brand with a long history of challenging conventional appliance design. With a focus on innovation, they sought a digital partner to help develop their latest technical feat: a virtual sous chef to guide home cooks in the kitchen.

This innovation, called Kitchen Assistant, is built on the insight that temperature is the key to achieving perfect results. It uses a wireless temperature sensor to provide an intuitive, guided cooking experience directly from a smartphone. The Kitchen Assistant is integrated into the global SmartHQ app, taking the guesswork out of cooking by guiding users through each stage—from setting the doneness level to monitoring the temperature and even timing the resting period.

Dynamo6 partnered with Fisher & Paykel Appliances to bring the Kitchen Assistant from a vision to a technical reality. Through an extensive design and technical build engagement, we focused on precision and user experience.

Our Approach

  • 01

    Translating vision into reality

    We translated intricate software specifications into a user-friendly format that intuitively guides users through highly variable cooking instructions, step by step. We also built a custom system to manage a wide range of cooking styles and meals, with the flexibility to support future additions and changes.

  • 02

    Collaborating with experts

    To inform the product's functionality, we worked closely with Fisher & Paykel's appliance experts and a team of experienced chefs. The chefs provided expert guidance on optimal temperatures, cooking steps, and the precise details of the cooking process.

  • 03

    Seamless integration

    We progressively built the software to integrate this new experience into the global Haier and GE Appliances smart appliance platforms app. The result is a new market innovation that responsively handles everything from a user switching apps to effortlessly guiding a 10-hour slow-cooked brisket.

The Results

The collaboration delivered Kitchen Assistant a groundbreaking new experience that empowers home chefs to achieve exceptional outcomes every time.

  • A virtual Sous Chef: The Kitchen Assistant provides real-time monitoring and easy-to-follow instructions, guiding users to perfect their dishes.

  • Precision in every dish: By removing the guesswork and monitoring temperature throughout the cook, the tool ensures consistency and high-quality results for a variety of meals and cooking styles.

  • A new market innovation: The project successfully delivered a unique new feature that enhances the user experience within the SmartHQ app, giving Fisher & Paykel a new competitive edge in the smart appliance market.

If you too have the cooking bug, connect your Fisher & Paykel smart appliances to SmartHQ and give Kitchen Assistant a go. Find it in the App Store or Google Play.

  • Dynamo6's expertise was instrumental in translating our vision for Kitchen Assistant into a reality. Their team have been fantastic to work with and overall they have seamlessly built and integrated this innovative cooking experience into the SmartHQ app, delivering a user-friendly and intuitive guide for home chefs of all levels.

    Megan Firkin

    GM Product Line - Connected Ecosystems

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