Herbal Healing - Home Page View - MFA Thesis: Homepage View - Top five herbal recommendations. Users can select a plant to get it's medicinal usage, part used and basic recommendation.
Why do people choose to use herbs?
Based on conducting research and interviews:
1) Natural Form of Medicine
2) Less Side Effects
3) Inexpensive
4) Friendly/My Own Environment
* All images were photograph/edit by me.
Software:
Photoshop, Illustrator, AS3 Flash, PHP, My SQL
Herbal Healing - MFA Thesis: Preloader View - Herbal Healing is a web application that will encourage users to improve their health and learn more about herbal medicine.
Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, AS3 Flash, PHP, My SQL
http://www.vpgraphicx.com/
Herbs View - User knows the herb and want to read about its medicinal uses.
1) User selects a pot below to get a detail view of the plant.
Herbs View
Symptoms View - Users can scroll and select symptoms or conditions to view an herbal recommendation.
Member Sign In
Evaluation - Users can take an evaluation to get herb recommendations in their garden.
Garden Recommendations - Based on the user's evaluation, herbal recommendations will appear in their garden.
My Garden Features:
1) Information about the plant
2) Feature video
3) Share your experience about how you use this plant
4) Read comments of other members that use the same plant
Herb Recommendations - MFA Thesis: My Garden View - Members benefit by taking an evaluation to get herbal recommendations.
Member Features:
1) Basic recommendation about the herb
2) Watch a feature video
3) Share their experience about the herb
4) Read how other members use the same herb for to help them with their symptoms/conditions
Feature Video - Feature video about how Mint can help the user. This video explains how Mint can help you with stomach pain.
Members' Comments - Read other member's herbal uses.
Mint can also be used for:
1) Mosquito Repellent
2) Arthritis
New Members' Comments - Each circle represents new members that shared their experience with Mint. Every user has some relationship with the plant but for different medicinal uses. Users can learn from reading other users' health experiences.
Terms of Use
Herbal Healing Thesis Book - Style Guide, Branding, Research, Information Architecture, Visual Design, Concept and Abstract
Herbal Healing Thesis Book
Research and Process Work - My goals were to focus on a primary target audience group through research, conducting surveys and interviews. I received a successful amount of responses through interviewing professionals and people who were interested in herbal medicine.
I also visited and attended several botanical gardens, organization meetings, colleges, research labs and home gardens.
Process Work: Collecting Visual Imagery - I took several photos to design/develop the visual design for the project.
Process Work: Collecting Images - I did not find enough images, so I planted my own herbal garden. I took pictures of the plants growing every week to develop an animation growth.
Process Work: Collecting Visual Images
Research and Process Work - After research and collecting images, I sketch out prototypes to develop the concept.
Process Work: Visual Design - Before and After Images
Process Work: Visual Design
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