Garden Wiz

An app that identifies your plant's diseases and suggests treatment based on advanced AI

student project

Story Time

I tried to help my dad find a solution to a problem he had as an amateur gardener. How can he identify and treat the diseased plants in his garden quickly and effectively, without the need to call a professional. My conclusion was that the best idea is to design an AI application.

What I did:

Resarch

Design

Prototyping

and

Animation

Type of Project:

App design

My Tool Set:

Prototype

UI Design

Typography

Nunito Sans

Colors

Logo

Components

Lottie animation

Goals

Project Goals

Helping gardeners find a solution to their problems quickly
Easy to use interface that will be accessible also to older people

Business Goals

Offering relevant products with an affiliation program

Challenges

Identify the main users and what they're struggling with while searching for a solution
Introduce the AI technology in a simple and accessible way

Research

Survey

I tried to understand the problems and pain points that the prospective users of the app are facing, I chose to use a survey (Google forms). I published it in a couple of major gardening Facebook groups to reach a large number of people, these are my findings:

94%

are willing to spend money to save their plants

82%

are using Google or Facebook for solutions

65%

are older than 45

The User

Yossi Halachmi

Experience home gardener

Story

Yossi is married to Yona and they have four children, Yossi is 60 years old and works as a lawyer, he has a busy schedule as he working hard everyday. Therefore he enjoys spending his spare time attending his backyard garden. Especially growing his lemon tree, his pride and joy. He's old fashioned and he likes to search for answers in his old gardening books and sometime on the internet.

Goals

To grow a healthy lemon tree
To have a pretty garden

“I find peace while I attend to my backyard garden”

Fears

That the lemon tree will be destroyed and can't be healed
That his gardening books are not up to date

Competitive Analysis

I searched for other apps or products that use AI for identification, to see what the other players in the field are doing

Plantix

Strengths

Using AI to recognize crop diseases
Offers products relevant to the problem
Suggests prevention methods

Weaknesses

Aimed at farmers and not suitable for the home gardener, offering features that aren't necessary for the persona
The AI had a problem recognizing common house plants