SKY FARM

OVERVIEW

Product

A future-focused vertical farming platform, designed through scenario planning, that empowers urban communities to grow food sustainably in a resource-constrained world.

Role

UX Researcher, Designer, and Information Architect

Responsibilities

Scenario planning, persona creation, paper and digital wireframing, component library creation, and low and high-fidelity prototyping.

Duration

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024

Team

5 members, each responsible for an individual app in a shared scenario

SCENARIO PLANNING

Part 1: Inspiration

Challenge + Future + Uncanny

Each team member used this generator to generate an app idea encompassing the parameters. All five topics were then consolidated to then guide scenario planning.

SCENARIO PLANNING

Part 2: Possibility Cone

Focused on Energy + Pollution

The team collectively used the cone of possibility to speculate future scenarios focusing on energy and pollution. We then solidified the realities of our speculative world each of our apps would be developed for and marked it on the cone of possibility. Shown to the side are the notes from our brainstorming sessions to speculate scenarios and narrow down details of the world to be designed for.

POSSIBILITY CONE

WORLD TO DESIGN FOR

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Urban residents need an accessible and sustainable way to grow food using vertical farming to improve food security and gain SCP.

EMPATHIZING:

USER PERSONAS

All team members created personas relevant to their apps and then exchanged among everyone to make sure each of our designs served every single persona produced

INITIAL PAPER + DIGITAL WIREFRAMES

ITERATIVE REDESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

Dark Patterns

Carefully considered and user flow accordingly adjusted

Information Architecture

Priority of information showed revised and wireframes redesigned to reflect new priority

Corporate Redesign

Designs were compared to Material design and Apple systems to identify opportunities for improvement and intentional deviation

FINAL HI - FI PROTOTYPES

DESIGN SYSTEM

TAKEAWAYS + FUTURE WORK

  • Scenario planning shapes design

    Exploring future possibilities helped define realistic and impactful solutions.

  • Balancing tech and accessibility

    Innovations like vertical farming must be inclusive, not just efficient.

  • Exploring community integration

    Future work could focus on how vertical farms can better serve local communities.