Helio Automated Garden System with Mobile App
USER RESEARCH. UI & UX DESIGN. LOGO DESIGN. PRODUCT DESIGN.
Problem: Most people do not have the time, the space, or the skills to grow and maintain a vegetable garden despite the desire to have one.
Solution: A garden that can garden itself. A mobile app, a sensor with solar panels, and a modular garden box with a heating and irrigation system, that can grow and maintain garden vegetables. The sensor communicates with the app and maintains the gardens moisture and temperature. It also monitors light and nutrients.
Helio app, garden sensor, and garden box.
Helio App Screen Examples
Screen 1: Sign-up. Screen 2: Sign-in. Screen 3: Home page.
Screen 1: Full menu falls from the hamburger menu on the left hand corner of the home page. Screen 2: Access your plant statistics quickly by swiping from the bottom of the screen. Screen 3: Select your plant of choice and review all of it’s information. By providing your zip code information, the app is able to give gardening recommendations.
Screen 1: Get specific information about each plant, including how much light a plant is receiving, directly and indirectly. Screen 2: Receive notifications about your automated features, or receive recommendations for greater success. Screen 3: Access our blog and learn from our garden experts.
The Garden Box
Includes instructions on how to assemble the modular garden box.
The customer assembles the garden box. Panels have male and female parts which can be put together like lego’s. Attach hose at the end for automated watering.
All of the elements inside, help run this automated system. Sensor and app communicate back and forth so you can access information, or or have advance control.
Specs for Sensor
Plant and Seed Packages
Plant starts and seed packets.
User Research
First, we sent out a survey, to find out if there was a demand for such a product.
Using the information we got from the survey, we created multiple user persona’s so we could have greater user empathy.
Next, we created a very detailed customer journey map, including multiple distractions that may cause the customer to start and stop through out the process. This is what inspired us to keep each part of the start up process to be simple and straight forward.
Sketches & Wire Frames
Initial sketch of instructions for assembly.
Wireframes were created for every feature.
