PlantaCare Case Study | Yoahn Abellan

Three PlantaCare screens: onboarding, home garden and the plant scanner

What Is PlantaCare?

PlantaCare is a mobile plant-care app for people who can identify a plant in three seconds and still watch it die three weeks later.

UI/UX Designer Mobile App Portfolio project 8 weeks

Tools used

Figma

Cloud based design

Claude

AI assistance

Maze

User testing

PlantaCare welcome screen: the garden where you keep your plant alive

4W+H Homeframe

Breaks the product down into What, Why, Who, How, and Goal, to expose the gap the category leaves open: everyone solves recognition, nobody solves what happens after it.

The Idea (What)

A plant care app that goes beyond identification, pairing a dual-mode scanner with an adaptive care loop that follows up on every action.

User Base (Who)

First-time owners who kill their first plant, casual owners who cannot read a symptom, and collectors managing 20+ plants across rooms with different light.

The Vision (Goal)

Keep every plant alive past its first year by turning a one-off scan into ongoing, contextual care.

The Reason (Why)

Because every app stops at identification. Care advice is written per species, never per symptom, and reminders repeat on a fixed calendar until they get muted.

The Process (How)

Scan splits into Identify and Diagnostics → photo diagnosis returns one protocol, not a list of causes → a day-7 follow-up asks for a photo and adapts.