


Project
Team (Sue Hong, Yunyoung Jang, Woorim Jung)
Duration
5 Months
Aug 2021 ~ Dec 2021
My Role
Research 33%, UXUI 70%, 3D Graphic 100%
Tools
Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, After effects, Cinema 4D

































3D modeling of a Harvy lounge
Ecological sensitivity in the city, mental and physical stability, communication
The overall design is spacious and open, and the smart garden located in the first floor lounge simultaneously functions as a communication space where employees can talk and a resting place to help recover from fatigue. On the second floor, a bean bag seat is provided where the smart farm is visible, ensuring the user's personal space, allowing users to relax while appreciating nature.
Offline exhibition
The booth was opened at the University graduation exhibition
It was designed to create an vitality atmosphere through a office desk. To be more specific, not only placed actual smart farm devices, but also created mock-ups of app to show the app services connected to the devices. Additionally, to express that the target users are people who work in an office, office supplies placed on the desks were used as exhibition props.

Number of urban gardens
South Korea, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, ‘Urban Agriculture Status Survey, 2024.01’


Smart farm
An indoor smart agriculture system, allowing easy crop management regardless of time and place.
Provides smart farm devices and services farm
Shares space to place the devices and resting place
In-house lounge
A space where office workers frequently visit to rest and can accommodate multiple personal smart farm devices.
Target user
Office workers
1
For working individuals who want to enjoy nourishing food and who want the rewarding experience of growing it themselves.
This app was designed for office workers who have busy schedules but also want to enjoy healthy foods. The gardening is beneficial because it was a quick and rewarding activity.
2
For working individuals who want to invest minimal time and energy into a new hobby.
This app was designed for office workers who have busy schedules but are also wanting to enjoy healthy foods. The act of gardening is also beneficial because it was a fun and rewarding activity.
3
For working individuals who are looking to incorporate more vegetables into their regular diet.
This app was designed for office workers who have busy schedules but are also wanting to enjoy healthy foods. The act of gardening is also beneficial because it was a fun and rewarding activity.
Indepth interview 1
Employees working at the company
Goal Find out about company lifestyles of office workers Duration 08.30.2021 ~ 05.09.2021 , 13.05.2024 Interviewee 6 people Condition Who are working at IT startups or large corporations, Employee or manager with at least 1 year of company experience

Manager’s opinion on in-house smart farm service
We asked managers about the pros and cons of establishing an in-house smart farm in their companies. This is because utilizing the communal space for the gardens needs the allowance of authorities. To sum up, both supervisors worried that benefits of smart farm might be lower than the economic investment. Also, they mentioned time loss from employees' smart farm hobby.
1. Kwang Hee Hong
Executive of a large company, 34 years of experience
• I’m concerned about that employees might spend too much time on gardening. What I don't want is that they constantly go to the lounge and hang out during work hours.
• While it is voluntary for individuals to take care of their flower pots, smart farms are non-voluntary in that they require participation after building all the machines and space.
• Therefore it is questionable whether it will be implemented purely based on the individual's will.
2. Yongseon Lee
Co-founder, development team leader, 10 years of experience
• Given that you have to go to the smart farm periodically for maintenance, it would be nice to be able to get some mandatory refresh.
• From the management's point of view, this is not very positive. The reason is that the company prefers not to be influenced by employees' likes and dislikes when introducing something new and spending space and money.
• I don't know how much time will be invested into the activity because I haven't tried gardening with a smart farm.
User mental model
A potential schedule of when employees are most likely to use the garden
In order to identify amount of time that the hobby takes, we conducted a number of interviews with employees who were asked about their daily work routine, when they arrive or leave work, and when they take their lunch break, etc. Organizing the responses, a mental model method was useful to figure out the behavior patterns of the office workers.








Interview 1&2 Insight
Smart Farm's technology and app service are the solution, because it can reduce the time spent on the cultivation hobby. By placing a smart farm in the lounge, the area is decorated with green plants. This will have the effect of increasing the efficiency of work. During conversations, employees will be able to talk about their smart farm hobbies, which will lead to stronger relationships among them.
Time
1. Many office workers find it difficult to pursue a hobby because of their busy work sechduel.
2. The manager is worried that if the smart farm hobby is operated in a company, people will spend less time working than before.
In order for users to feel attachment to their vegetables and the joy of growing them, how much the cultivation activities must be reduced that people have to do themselves?
Nature
1. When taking a break from work, many people prefer to relax by looking at nature, such as going up to the rooftop garden.
2. Vegetables and plants in smart farms help reduce stress because they provide a sense of stability.
The space where smart farms are placed should be designed open and nature-friednly to make people fully relaxed.
Is there a way to make commuting to work more enjoyable with our service?
Community
1. By having conversations during breaks at work, employees at work become more connected.
2. Companies are making efforts to create clubs in order to create a strong bond between employeers with common hobbies.
What are some ways for employees to interact more actively through vegetables?
People interested in a vegetable centered diet are more likely to be positive in growing vegetables. How about appealing to them for eating healthy diet with their own vegetables?
User Persona
“I want to regain healthy and balanced lifestyle!”
Body

Information
Name
Eunji Kim
Age
29
Job
Start-up Marketer
Career
3 years
Housing type
One-person households
Location
Seoul, South Korea
Personality
Introvert
Extrovert
Free
Regular
Impatient
Patient
Inertial
Challenging
Biography
Eunji has been working as a marketer at a tech company for 3 years. She is tech-savvy and comfortable using digital tools in many aspects of her life, so she especially likes solutions which help her save time in her busy schedule. At work, she enjoys socializing with her colleagues during breaks in a office lounge.
When Eunji goes to work, she enjoys socializing and communicating with her colleagues during coffee breaks in a shared office lounge. The lounge has the advantage of being open and spacious, allowing multiple people to sit and talk together.
Frustration
• Fatigue
These days, Eunji has so much work that she doesn't even have time to de-stress. She is looking for a way to relieve stress, but there is no suitable way to do it with her limited time and energy.
• Diet
Determined to take care of her health, she tried to include nutritious ingredients in her meals. But lately she can't afford to cook, so she often orders fast food and has her food delivered.
• Health
The accumulated stress and frequent consumption of fast food slowed down her digestion. She wants to find a balance between her health and work.
Goals and needs
• Hobby
Eunji wants to try home farming as a new hobby, but her home is not a suitable space for a garden. Finding the right balance of water, light, and nutrients for optimal plant growth is difficult.
• Nature
She wants to forget complicated thoughts and relax while watching nature's green grass and trees. However, when she looks out the window at the office, it is filled with a forest of buildings.
• Rest
She wanted to travel and heal herself. Because she thought that finding a balance between health and work would allow her to be more productive at work than she is now.
Motivations
Saving Time
Productivity
Health
Convenience
Sociability
Story board
How workers enjoy smart farm in their office places
Body

One afternoon after working hard, Eunji felt tired and needed a break.

So she went to the company lounge to take a break, and saw a poster in the lounge saying that they were recruiting buyers for an in-house smart farm.

Eunji installed the app and logged in with her company ID. First, a survey was conducted on her lifestyle. Based on the results, vegetables and size of farm land area were recommended.

Felt she needed a new hobby, she subscribed to the service. Then she received soil containing seeds from the store. To plant them, she went to her assigned garden.

Looking at the cultivation calendar, it says that if you plant the seeds today, they will germinate within two weeks.

After that day, when she went to work for a month, she spent her break in the lounge with coffee and looking at the plants. Eunji felt as if all her fatigue had disappeared.

Eunji was able to have more enjoyable conversations with colleagues who also enjoy the smart farm hobby. They talked about their favorite vegetables and exchanged smart farm management tips.

About a month after planting the seeds, a harvest notification sounded, indicating the need for thinning.

She got some tools from the counter and picked out the weak vegetables herself.

Finally, one day, on her way to work, she received a push notification that she could harvest. She went to work, harvested with all her excitement and recorded it in the calendar.



Harvest + Hobby

Branding
Core Value

Refresh
Relax and enjoy in the smart garden of the in-house lounge.

Worthy
Grow vegetables and feel the rewards of harvest.

Easy
Convenient harvesting with an App linked to smart farms.

Together
A sense of belonging with colleagues sharing the same hobby.

Cultivation kit composition
Artificial soil + seeds + nutritional ampoule
Tools
Work gloves, tweezers, scissors
Why?
Due to the nature of smart farm cultivation and space, there is a possibility that a sufficient amount of harvest may not be possible depending on the species. In order to overcome these shortcomings, we want to set harvest as a kind of event and allow many users to enjoy harvest day together.


Making personalized
smart farm

A glance at my garden
and vegetables

Cultivation calendar and
notificaiton as reminders















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