─ Project Overview
Description:
KYPH is a plant app with which purpose is to help users to get relevant information from a plant-lover community about how they can keep their plants healthier. In this app, they can enjoy the benefit of a forum, track plant history, and get assistants for taking care of their plants.
This plant app is dedicated to users who like to have plants at home and would like to share information about them, who enjoy and believe in the power of community.
Duration: 10 weeks│Project type: Bootcamp Project (Personal)
My role: Research│Interview│Survey│Wireframe│User persona │Design concept
Used programs: Figma│Photoshop│Google Sheet│Premier Pro │Miro│Procreate
─ The challenge
Usually, people are like having plants at home because they clean indoor air, reduce stress, and also a cool decoration. They also allow responsibility and challenges for the owner because each plant has different needs and many times the biggest challenge for them is to get relevant information about what’s wrong with their plant.
“I treat my plants like a human being. It is something that makes me happy”
─ Solution
A platform where people, besides setting a reminder when they have to pay attention to their house plants, can also get:
Fast and easier searching by using the post labels and asking help from the community
The option to set ‘Pro tips’ about plants that they have at home
The availability share photos or posts and they would be able to add information labels to it
a plant diary where they can track the day when they started taking care of their plants plus they can also save posts and information that are relevant for them
“I like to do pictures and post on IG in my stories”
─ Interview & survey summary
Information is based on 4 interviews and 112 survey answers.
─ Persona
who doesn’t want to have plants, but also doesn’t want to waste too much time in searching for information about them
Pain points:
lack of knowledge (too complicated to search for information about plants)
remember different plants and their different needs
responsibility - plants are a long term task
vocation (finding a caretaker when they are available)
Goals:
exciting and relaxing daytime activities
get satisfaction by having nice and healthy plants
acclimation from the community and from friends
become a guru about his/her plants = proud in your achievement
Designed by Freepik
─ User Story
“As a plant keeper, I want to have a good community to help the prevention of wasting hours in searching for extra insights about the plants.”
“As a plant keeper, I want to have proper knowledge about my plants so that I could prevent different plant diseases.”
“As a plant keeper, I wanted to be rewarded, and be acknowledged by others that I am taking care of plants properly.”
─ How Might We…
… Help people to reach only useful information
… Provide more joy and less stress when people are taking care of the plants
… Help people to connect with a good plant-loving community
─ Concept & iterations
Home Page
At the top of the homepage, the user can find some useful tips about plant care. After that starts the plant section where the user can find what kind of plants has and do they need some care actually. Thereafter can find the newest posts from the forum.
Usability testing feedback:
In general, the hierarchy is a little bit confusing
The ‘Pro Tips’ itself doesn’t make sense and needs more clarification
Tab - hard to notice which icon is active
Plant care - it has to click too many times to make the task
Forum
Here the user very easy can share their problems or just daily life photos. Also, they can save interesting forum topics and rate the answers that other users wrote.
Usability testing feedback:
Post owner - it would be better if a face and a name were behind the post
Post-hierarchy is messy
Plant diary
At this part, the user can track the general information about the plant care history or add some new photos about the plant. Also would be able to save forum posts directly to the specific plant diary.
The app also automatically logs the time when the user was taking care of their plants (like watering, rotating, etc.)
Usability testing feedback:
Plant bio, too many buttons. It isn’t very easy to find the notification panel
Notification
Every plant has different needs that’s why in the app the user can set them separately when they have to look after their plant. Plus they can pause the notification anytime.
Usability testing feedback:
Plant care: the icons under the plant aren’t clear
─ Design system
─ Final design
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