— Joshua Hillmer is a Los Angeles based Product Designer specializing in human-centered design, UX/UI best practices, user testing and research.

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 Town Square

With the recent rise in home gardening, there is a need for a product that could help facilitate the trade or sale of excess produce. An individual with a garden or mature fruit tree, often feels overwhelmed about having too much of the one type of produce Town Square will fill this market by creating a virtual farmers market or city center for neighbors to trade produce.

Overview: MUXD Masters Capstone Project

Role: UX/UI Design, UX Research

Software: Figma, Azure, Whimsical, Uxpressia, Miro

Product: Mobile iOS Design

Timeline: 8 Weeks

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If you can’t afford to buy organic, then you should grow organic
— Each year the average gardener spends around $70 on their hobby and harvests over $600 worth of food.

A Growing industry…

This past year 1 out of every 3  U.S. households now grow their own food.

However, they also throw away an estimated 25% of the food they harvest every year. 


 
 
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The Problem

An individual with a garden/fruit tree, often feels overwhelmed about having too much of the one type of produce and needs to find a way to give or trade for another type but faces no easy way to do so past their friends and relatives.