LeeVictoriin.

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Smarty Plants is a vegetable gardening game app for new enthusiasts to learn about growing and taking care of vegetables.Through interactive care minigames, players are educated about the process of gardening and gain experience in a fun and relaxing environment.

Problem Statement

Growing vegetables within Alberta’s climate can be challenging for new gardeners. While there are numerous resources about them within books and the internet, they are less engaging and are based on reading accounts of other peoples’ experiences, and as such, it needs to be a more integrated and fun approach to learning about growing vegetables. In this project, we will focus on how an interactive game can educate about growing vegetables in Alberta, exploring game design frameworks as well as variables on gardening that can help create a fun gardening game app.

Target Audience

Both of these user audiences are primarily residents within urban areas, which are typically faced with vastly different environmental factors compared to their rural counterparts, including the possibility that they may not have access to their own gardening space.

Design Process

In 2025, we dedicated in user research, including expert interviews on local community gardeners, literature reviews on gardening and game design principles and brainstorming sessions. In 2026, these findings shaped our development into a digital prototype of our mobile game that features 3 gardening activities on 3 different vegetables.

I was primarily responsible for UI design, motion graphics and programming whereas my project partner produced the illustration assets.**This process is still ongoing. Expected completion and final report will be on April 2026.

01. Overview

The Telus World of Science--Edmonton is a non-profit space museum operated under by the Edmonton Space & Science Foundation under sponsorship by Telus communications. As the largest science centre in Western Canada, it offers volunteer opportunities to Edmontonians who wish to educate and promote the public in science and cultural histories of Canada.

02. Problem

Various UX problems in the form include the following:

03. Design Process

Breaking up the categories into boxes bring clarity to how these text input fields are grouped together.
In the original form, the roles are poorly categorized in such a way that it presents a difficult time for the user to efficiently scan across the page to look at the different roles and options within the areas of interest as well as skills. Instead of laying out the checkmark options horizontally, they only consist of two columns, and are categorized into groups relevant to a substantial list.

Rationale

MarsNOW! Weight-loss Protein Bars is a fictitous food product referring to the space organization’s promotional brand from Deborah Willis’s novel “Girlfriend On Mars”. The box carries an undertone of the book’s satirical themes that deconstructs on short-term gratification, online trends and living in the post-capitalist landscape within contemporary society. These protein bars present themselves as a marketable commodity by which the notion of one purchasing them is a wordplay into the idiom of “buying into“ the trend held by this multimillionaire space corporation. Just as how the book presents MarsNOW as a reality television show that tends to stage various
deceptive and exploitative practices, the packaging also carries its dubious nature by its bizarre flavour, sarcastic lines and a health disclaimer printed in small detail, almost masked away by its commercialized visual branding.