Planto: The Plant Care App
Designers: Breanna Dulay, Piotr Soldaj
Project Description
Planto is a mobile plant care application designed to make taking care of your plants an easy part of users’ daily routine.
Are you having trouble with work, school, and being a plant parent?
No worries, Planto is here to help keep you on top of everything else while keeping your plants
alive and thriving!
Are you having trouble with work, school, and being a plant parent?
No worries, Planto is here to help keep you on top of everything else while keeping your plants
alive and thriving!
Our design challenge for this course was to design a functional and intuitive mobile application for plant care.
As a part of our design brief, we were first given a user persona as a part of the basis for our design. Our team took note of specific traits of our user to consider as we designed the application. This was necessary in determining which functions of the app would be the most helpful in terms of Sara’s lifestyle and how that would influence how she may use a plant care app.
Prior to beginning our design process, we first defined the goal of our app and specified specific app requirements for both the initial set up and Sara’s daily use of the application.
Our team started with mapping out the user journey process for the initial set up stage as it was the process that would take the most steps for Sara to go through. In creating our user journey map, we made sure to start with considering every possible step Sara would need to take to set up the app and then simplified it by removing unnecessary steps. This would be crucial in keeping the navigation process for Sara as easy as possible.
We then mapped out the user journey for daily use of Planto. The most important feature we had to consider was how Sara would be able to edit information she had during initial setup and how to make it as simple and intuitive as possible.
Once we refined our user journey maps, we then started sketching out the frame by frame interactions of our application while using the user journey maps as a guideline.
Throughout our sketching process, we also took a closer look at other plant care apps on the market and what features they offered. After contemplating and testing out these interactions, features that we found necessary were marked down on our benchmarking page for reference.
Consistency is important in creating a cohesive application, so after researching a few design systems, we created our own style guide for Planto. The most important characteristics we wanted to adhere to were simplicity and accessibility so we stuck to a minimal range of colors and one typeface.
