Pot Pal
A new way to record memories and grow. Literally!
People often struggle to reflect on their emotions and thoughts throughout the day. Traditional journaling can be time-consuming, making it difficult for people to explore important thoughts. Pot Pal offers a gentle and innovative way to capture moments for future reflection and processing emotions. The smart pot plant records spoken memories, stored in the companion app.
Design Insights and Iteration
A new physical modality for journaling
Through ideation and design research, we learned that people didn’t like their own voice, and wanted something to talk to.
Establishing Goals and Tasks
Walkthroughs highlighted Pot Pal’s affinity for Future Reflection and Processing and debriefing active emotions.
Increased user control
Through usability testing, we learned that users wanted to tune the pot’s personality, content synthesis, and interaction methods.
Future Reflection
Pot Pal can pull insights from previous conversations to better support you. From a previous entry, running made the user feel better so Pot Pal suggests the user to go on a run.
