Welcome to Herby.
OVERVIEW
As recreational and medical use of marijuana increases along with legality, there is an opportunity for new ideas and products in the marijuana industry, including ones that can help reduce negative behaviors.
Concept
Herby aims to help users regulate and reduce their intake of marijuana in order to encourage more responsible and healthier drug use habits. Herby is an app and grinder piece that works to help users set goals and track their progress in regards to reducing or using weed more effectively.
Product
The Herby app comes with a grinder piece that users install upon arrival. The package comes with easy-to-follow instructions for a quick installation. This piece is responsible for weighing the contents of the grinder in order to track consumption.
So here's how it works.
THE NEW USER
The Unboxing Experience.
Part of the deliverable for this project involved building out the unboxing and onboarding experience of the user. Here you can see how Herby would be presented to a new user.
THE PRODUCT
The Grinder Piece.
THE NEW USER
App Onboarding.
New users are prompted to answer some questions regarding their current drug use habits. The app will help users create new goals for how much marijuana they want to intake on a daily or weekly basis. Knowing what kind of methods of smoking are being used will give us a better understanding of how much THC is in the user's system, and therefore their tolerance.
A user's tolerance can be high, which means it takes more weed to get high or a user's tolerance can be low, which means they can get high off of very little. All users are given a personalized plan for use reduction and tolerable stabilization. This means that users who want to continue getting high while reducing their tolerance can do so with their personalized plan.
HOW IT WORKS
Grinder Connected to App.
'Marijuana Remaining Today' is calculated based on your use for the day and your daily use goals. We realize that recreational marijuana users often smoke socially so we've added that in the app.
The option to lock your grinder when you reach your daily limit is available. It is always possible to unlock it after it locks.
Review some articles about staying healthy while being high.
HOW IT WORKS
Opening Grinder.
The grinder's tech can sense when you add or take weed from it, so it will automatically update in the app. You would also recieve a notification.
HOW IT WORKS
Manually Add Smoke Sessions.
When someone else provides the kush, its easy to manually add the smoke session in the app. You can also add the number of people you shared with.
All that process work.
USER RESEARCH
Marijuana User Interviews.
Here you can read about my initial user research and the insights I pulled from interviews with marijuana users. I did this research before I began coming up with concepts for the product. The insights and feedback were the foundation for the main idea of Herby.
PreVIOUS ITERATIONS
Three Iterations Later.
I have been coming back to this project and revising it as my skills have grown during my time at school. I turned in my first iteration in Erin Malone's Behavior Class in the Fall of 2018. This iteration also came with a product video. The UI in the video has since been updated in the below iterations.
First Iteration | Nov 2018
Second Iteration | Apr 2019
Third Iteration | Dec 2019 (Current)
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