Mobile app · UX engineering · Gamification
A functional Android app that turns plant learning into a daily outdoor scavenger hunt inspired by Pokémon GO and Wordle.
University Mobile Development Project. Traditional plant encyclopedias can feel passive and text-heavy, so FindFlora was designed to make learning active and habit-forming.
Daily check-ins reward users for exploring outdoors while learning about local flora.
The outdoor use case informed a high-contrast theme and highly legible type.
To work within the plant API’s 100-query daily limit, I built a local cache and used background threading so data requests would not freeze the interface.
If location access is denied, the app falls back to manual selection rather than blocking the user.
Confirmation dialogs and context-aware notifications protect progress. A future iteration would improve country-specific hardiness data and include formal usability testing.