Case Study · Concept 03

Arbor — giving a $129 planter the page of a design object.

A landing page concept for a self-watering smart planter — hardware that has to feel like furniture, not another gadget with an app.

Type — Concept project Scope — Strategy, copy, design, build Timeline — 7 days
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The brief

Smart-home pages sell specs. People buying a planter are buying a feeling.

Arbor is a self-watering planter with a 30-day reservoir and soil sensors. Its buyers are plant people and design people — an audience that recoils from "IoT device" aesthetics. The page had to sell calm competence: the product's job is that you stop thinking about it.

The approach

Editorial, not electronic. A split hero with the product staged in an arched alcove, like a catalogue spread. Sensor readouts appear as small floating cards — present, but subordinate to the object.

One feature per spread. Alternating editorial blocks each pair one claim with one purpose-built visual: a filling reservoir gauge for the 30-day tank, a phone mock for the app, spec numbers set in display type.

Let the plant move. The hero illustration's leaves sway on a slow loop — the only ambient motion on the page, and the reason the product reads as alive rather than rendered.

Design decisions

Typography

Gloock, a high-contrast display serif, gives headlines the voice of a garden catalogue; Figtree keeps UI and specs friendly and legible.

Color

Greenhouse glass, deep moss, leaf green, and terracotta — the product's own materials as the palette. No tech blue anywhere.

Layout

Magazine spreads: split hero, alternating two-column blocks, a full-bleed moss-dark review section for contrast before the buy CTA.

Motion

Swaying leaves, a reservoir that fills as it scrolls into view, a marquee of plant names. Slow, organic easing throughout — nothing snaps.

Selling a physical product? Your page should feel like holding it.

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