Pot

Mobile AI app for plant identification and care. Freelance project — small team, end to end.

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Mobile AI app for plant identification and care.

Year
2026
Role
Lead Product Designer
Duration
~2 months
Team
Designer, developer, marketer
Tools
Figma

Brief

Pot is a mobile app for identifying plants and keeping them alive. I led design on a small team — designer, developer, marketer — over a couple of months. Mobile-first, AI-native, end to end.

Pot in hand inside a plant-filled apartment
Phone in one hand, plant in the other — the whole pitch.

Product

Scan a plant, learn what it needs, drop it in your garden — in light and dark.

Light-mode product screens — plant detail, climatic data, My Garden
Core loop: scan, learn, save to your garden.
Dark-mode product screens with subscription paywall
Same flow at night. Plus subscription paywall.

AI assistant

Prof. Pot — the cactus-mascot chatbot — diagnoses common problems from a few short questions.

Prof. Pot — AI diagnostic chat with the cactus mascot
Prof. Pot — the AI assistant — diagnoses common problems.

Audience

Urban plant owners who want care reminders without a textbook.

Persona — Anna Lazareva, urban plant owner in Toronto
Designed for urban plant owners who forget.

System

End-to-end flow, a small component kit, and a deliberately restrained brand.

End-to-end user flow diagram
End-to-end user flow on a single page.
Component library — care cards, sliders, gauges
The kit behind every screen — cards, sliders, gauges.
Brand guidelines — SF Pro, green and orange
SF Pro, one green, one orange. Deliberate restraint.

A mobile AI product, shipped end to end with a small team.

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