Plant Parent

Grow together with your plants.

Due to lack of experience or information, plant owners can often have trouble caring for their plants. Plant Parent mobile app was created as a tool to educate the average person to help guide plant owners to relevant plant information, care tips, treatment guides and more.

My Role

Experience Design, Usability Tests, Research, Wireframes, Prototype, Interface Design

The Challenge

My main objective and challenge for this project was to redesign the sign up and log in sections of the app to be less tedious and easy to understand. Most people often find signing up for a new account tiresome, which can result in users exiting the process.

Prime Goals

• Add useful features that guide users when signing up
• Provide contextual information for text fields to avoid errors
• Redesign visuals without deviating from the original design
• Provide a clear indication of progress in order to motivate users to finish

Research and Testing

Surveys are an amazing tool for capturing quality feedback and information from real-world users. I sent out a survey to 12 participants in order to learn what people liked and disliked about the sign up and log in sections within apps.
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‍Defining user journeys was crucial, therefore I mapped out potential user flows and collaborated with the team to get the process right. After finishing a high-fidelity prototype, it was sent out for testing to help identify pain points, gather feedback, and improve my designs.

Key Insights from Participants
• Password field not having a “show/hide” feature
• Most preferred text over email for account verification
• No guidance provided during the sign up process
• Having email as the only option when password is lost

Obstacles

Displaying the appropriate amount of information can be difficult. I had to find the right balance with text and visuals to help better navigate the users through the sign up and log in process.

Plant Parent Reconstructed

This project came about awhile back when I first found interest in user-experience design. After acquiring more knowledge by completing certification courses, experience and research, I decided to revisit this project to apply what I have learned. By redesigning this project, I realized that there will always be room for improvement in the product and in ourselves.
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In conclusion, comparing the redesign to the previous version, users now have a more intuitive and efficient experience when signing up for a new account, which should help increase the numbers of new sign ups.

"I like how it gives me the option to recover my password using my phone number, because there are times when I forget which email I used for the account."

–Theresa T. (28 years old)