Botany Buddy
The product:
An app designed to help log, keep track of, and diagnose issues with the end users houseplants. The idea was to leverage AI to help with the diagnosis.
Project duration:
I worked on this project for about a week and a half during the course of my certification.
My role:
Sole UX Researcher and Designer
Responsibilities:
-Research
-Wireframing
-Prototyping
-Design

The problem:
Providing an easy to use resource for users who are seeking a quick diagnosis of their beloved botanical buddies without requiring tons of knowledge and freetime.
The goal:
By providing a product that allows users to see pictures of plants and potentially upload pictures of plants to help them diagnose common issues and using AI to help with the process.




Pain
Points
Time
It takes a lot of time to understand how to care for lots of plants.
Complexity
From my research, many similar gardening apps suffer from far too much design complexity.
User Personas
-Hannah-
Hannah is a young college student that aesthetic of house plants but doesn’t have the time to constantly tend to them. She needs a way to quickly and efficiently diagnose her plants issues because she doesn’t know all the ins and outs of plant health. She notices some issues with her plants while quickly watering them in between classes and needs a way to diagnose the issues without spending too much time searching with her already busy schedule.
-William-
William is an elderly retiree who has a breadth of knowledge on plant life and loads of experience with many common issues that houseplants face. He enjoys tending to his little slice of nature nestled in the pottery of his tropical home. He needs a way to diagnose an uncommon issue he’s never encountered before in his beloved botanicals he noticed one early morning while pruning them.

User
Journey

Site Map



Sketch
Wireframe
During the sketching process I couldn’t decide on exactly where to place my navbar. I opted for a navbar at the bottom to mimic the normal layout of smartphones.

Lo-Fi
Prototype
