As a hobby, I worked with ceramics, making pottery and sculpture whichholds a place in my heart for all things hand-crafted. At the very beginning of my UX training, I wanted to understand how my tools worked. (Figma and Webflow) I was also a plant enthusiast making my own planters, caring for the forest I had created within my home. That’s when it hit me, there are so many trendy planters, but, finding unique hand-crafted, artsy planters were hard to find and usually were lost in the online sea of Etsy or Instagram. This birthed the project idea of HomeShrub, an e-commerce project that sells unique hand-crafted plant-related things. It is just the project to learn the basics of web design and UX on my own.
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Age: 28
Education: Masters in Fine Arts
Occupation: Owner of coffeeshop
She started her coffee shop 3 years ago, and has been bringing in cuttings from her plants to spruce up the place and lift her unique coffee space. Jade has spent countless hours looking for the right planter for her new cuttings, and can’t find what fits. She wants something new and unique.
Age: 27
Education: Associates in Science
Occupation: ESL Teacher in Japan
He loves his job in Japan and has fallen in love with the way the Japanese perfect everything. His mother owns a “jungle” in his childhood home in Wisconsin and he thought she would like something special to repot some of her over grown plants as a gift. He wants something hand-made.
Age: 32
Education: Masters in Fine Arts
Occupation: Owner of coffeeshop
She started her coffee shop 3 years ago, and has been bringing in cuttings from her plants to spruce up the place and lift her unique coffee space. Jade has spent countless hours looking for the right planter for her new cuttings, and can’t find what fits. She wants something new and unique.
Age: 27
Education: Associates in Science
Occupation: ESL Teacher in Japan
He loves his job in Japan and has fallen in love with the way the Japanese perfect everything. His mother owns a “jungle” in his childhood home in Wisconsin and he thought she would like something special to repot some of her over grown plants as a gift. He wants something hand-made.
The road to starting something new filled me with a ton of emotion which in turn, had me comparing what I began doing and had done to those with a lot more experience. I threw away the Figma, I trashed my paper drawings, my research. Everything except what you see in this project overview. Looking back, it really didn’t look that bad. I got a hands-on foundation of how Webflow works, how to integrate illustrations, what it’s like to build an e-commerce site from scratch. With the knowledge I have now, I found it is important to follow the whole design process down to the smallest design. Starting with the proper research, creating wireframes, and user flows, and then prototyping. Practice makes perfect.
