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Catch the thought
Chuck a note straight into the Shed. Choose a type or garden when you're ready.
Independent concept / Non-commercial prototype
NGP SHED
A concept for a little digital shed: catch the thought, find the garden, and keep the useful things together.
The idea
Community gardening comes with small things to remember: bring gloves, order compost, call someone back, save a receipt. The Shed gives those loose ends somewhere easy to land.
The design response
Start with one welcoming Home screen, a capture field that asks very little, and a notebook for each garden. Organising can happen afterwards. The prototype explores that flow before adding more features.
Inspired by NGP’s existing identity.
Handmade character / Clear interactions
Keep the rough edges.
NGP’s existing posters set the direction: bold ink lettering, yellow highlights, green and lilac, and a handmade community feel. The interface borrows that character while giving forms and notes room to breathe.
Refinement meant making dropdown arrows clearer, keeping capture visually dominant, and cutting repeated copy. Supporting cards became quieter so every panel does not compete for attention.
Colour values are guided by the references, rather than presented as official brand specifications.
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Find the garden
Open a garden notebook for its sample sessions, jobs and linked captures.
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Learn by doing
A short tour lets people practise saving, sorting and ticking without changing real records.
Have a go in the Shed.
The working app / Not a videoAdd a thought, sort it, or open a garden. Sessions and jobs are samples; notes you capture stay in this browser when storage is available.
Boots on. Kettle on.
The working Shed loads here as you scroll. Prefer it bigger? Open the live page.
The app uses short GSAP animations for feedback, with reduced-motion and animation-library fallbacks. The full window view gives phones more room.
A first seedling, with room to grow.
Current limits / Future potentialWhat works today
Today, quick capture, four garden notebooks, saved job ticks, optional sorting and a five-step tour. The app is a static prototype with browser storage, not a shared team service.
What would come next
Recover unfinished drafts, edit and archive notes, and complete captured Tasks. Then test real schedules, Calendar, Impact and shared access with NGP. These are possibilities, not features already delivered.
The full app guide
Functions, architecture, design decisions and a phased roadmap.