Product design · Personal project · iOS app
care = love
A personal inventory of what I use, what I’ve tried, and what I want to remember.
care = love keeps my care products, routines, observations, and purchase memory connected. Basket holds the collection, Greenhouse holds routines and dated observations, and Meadow connects reading with what I already own. The October 23 log follows recovery, product entry, reversible editing, and the remaining everyday-use checks. I’m still the user and the only user tester.
What do I own, what have I tried, and what did I actually think of it?
The collection is the starting point.
I wanted a skincare inventory I could come back to: what I own, what I’ve tried, and what I thought of it. Basket now brings the routine summary and collection together, including optional care actions that don’t require a product.
Collection, observation, and reading.
The current native navigation is Basket, Greenhouse, and Meadow. Greenhouse centres dated observations, with product links and optional experience ratings. Meadow holds sourced reading and a route back to what I own. Earlier logs preserve the Pouch, Pond, and Garden naming used at the time.
Reference facts, personal memory.
An editable local catalog separates product facts from personal inventory, reviews, routines, and purchase history. Link import returns a draft for review; barcode lookup searches saved catalog records. Imported drafts leave manufacturer image permissions unresolved and use category doodles as a fallback. The catalog’s Mac wrapper is a separate local tool, not a shared synchronised database with the native app.
A dated checkpoint, with work still open.
The October 16 screenshots show simulator sample data in the navy-and-cream night palette. The observation draft uses synthetic text. These captures precede later form-button refinements; they are not proof of every final pixel. Product recommendations and wider validation remain unfinished. The next test is still my own everyday loop: save, find, arrange, observe, and retrieve.
A closer look
Inside care = love
