Homegrown
App Concept
2019
I’ve got a lot of plants at home, and have a particular penchant for buying exotic plants if I can find them. Plant care can be hard to navigate. Homegrown is my answer to this problem.
I’ve spent a lot of time trying different plant apps, and came away frustrated with each one. One app may allow you to upload a photo of a plant and connect it to plant info in the app’s library. Another app may be great at scheduling watering and feeding, but has no real plant library. I have yet to find a plant app that has all the features necessary to make caring for plants easy and comprehensive.
My goal in designing Homegrown was to create an app that is with users through every point in their plant care, while providing a database of plant information to draw reference from. The app is meant to be helpful in any stage in plant collecting, whether the user is a low commitment plant owner or a master gardener with years of experience.
I’ve spent a lot of time trying different plant apps, and came away frustrated with each one. One app may allow you to upload a photo of a plant and connect it to plant info in the app’s library. Another app may be great at scheduling watering and feeding, but has no real plant library. I have yet to find a plant app that has all the features necessary to make caring for plants easy and comprehensive.
My goal in designing Homegrown was to create an app that is with users through every point in their plant care, while providing a database of plant information to draw reference from. The app is meant to be helpful in any stage in plant collecting, whether the user is a low commitment plant owner or a master gardener with years of experience.
It’s super important to consider the people who would be using Homegrown. Users would have a wide range of expectations when they download a plant app, and those expectations would largely be dependent on individual personalities and life experiences. I created user personas that would cover a wide range of “plant people”, from low to high experience levels.
Homegrown App
Features
- Add your plants manually or from the Plant Library
- Create named collections of your plants
- Research plants in the Plant Library
- Follow a care schedule for each of your plants using Homegrown’s Calendar
- Push reminders for when your plants need care
- Share your garden with friends and followers
- Create a wishlist of your favorite plants
- Meet other gardeners to chat about plants and give/receive plant advice
Garden Page (Center)
Once you sign up for Homegrown, your default homepage will be your Garden. Your Garden displays all of the plants you’ve added as ‘owned’. From this page you can organize your plants into collections, which comes in handy if you are trying to separate your plants by location or care needs.
Editing your Garden is easy. Buttons at the top of your garden allow you to add a plant or collection. Additionally, long pressing on any owned plant will display option bubbles for easy editing, duplication, and deletion.
Editing your Garden is easy. Buttons at the top of your garden allow you to add a plant or collection. Additionally, long pressing on any owned plant will display option bubbles for easy editing, duplication, and deletion.
Homegrown Webpage
