Technology is getting better exponentially every day with new inventions and new ways to do things effectively. Which helps the user accomplish things more easily and effectively.
With the increase in people switching to smart home appliances that are interconnected with each other using IoT systems controlling and knowing the status of the smart home devices has never been so easy.
Defining The Problem
How might we help people control and know the status of the smart home appliances in their house?
The Solution I Arrived Upon
Creating a mobile app that helps the user control and knows about the status of their smart home appliances.
Why A Mobile App?
More Compact
People tend to carry their phones everywhere as it is more compact.
Feeling Of Familiarity
People relate to the phones as physical remotes due to some similar appearance (familiarity).
Features of the product
Control & Check ✔
Control, and check the status of your smart devices from anywhere.
Add Routines📝
Set routines to automatically perform the activities.
Track Usage📈
Track the power consumption of a whole room or a single device.
Invite Members👨👨👧👦
Invite your family members to control and check the smart home devices.
Establishing The Brand Guidelines
Colour Pallet In Use
When we think of the home for the most part it is the place where we can be comfortable as ourselves. I want the user to feel this product is also a part of their home and feel comfortable about it. So I created a colour pallet which provides a sense of comfort to the users.
Light brown is being used as a primary colour which provides comfort and encourages strong material security and a sense of belonging with family and friends. Blue being a cool colour, is used as a secondary colour to provide some balance in the colour pallet.
Typeface In Use
I had to find a typeface that evokes the same characteristics and emotions that the colour pallet does.
The thoughts I had while choosing the typeface was
I had to choose a typeface that conveys a sense of secured and limited but also provides a feeling of friendliness in the atmosphere.
So I chose the Dosis typeface that evokes a sense of friendliness with its round edges and creates a sense of conservative and limited with the letters condensed with each other.
What went behind creating the logo
Inspirations
After setting up the colour pallet and typeface I wanted to create a logo so I got some inspiration from some of the images and I tried to convey what my product is about in the logo.
Logo Of The Product
The logo portrays a home that has multiple smart devices that are connected to it. This was a more appropriate representation of the smart home app that I was trying to build.
Creating The Core Workflows Of
onboarding the user
user adding a device
The user controlling a device
While creating the wireframes I did audits on my own work from the perspective of a user. Which helped me improve the quality of screens over time with every iteration.
Exploring multiple ways in which the same content can be put across helped me make decisions about what suits the context.
Through this, I came up with these medium-fidelity screens.
What Product Has To Offer?
Onboarding is a crucial and the first step the new users go through. A positive onboarding experience confirms to your customers that they made the right choice. It also, ultimately, helps you retain them.
Some of the reasons why users uninstall or don’t use the product are
They don’t understand what your product has to offer.
They don't obtain any value from it.
These issues can be solved easily using onboarding by communicating the clear value the product has to offer to the users.
A lot of decisions were made during the stage of iterations on the ways to represent content and prioritization important things.
Setting Up Your Home Space
As a new user after the signup process, most users do not understand how the product functions. Generally, the user has to figure things out by experimenting and trying the product out. When the users gets frustrated about them being not able to figure out how to use the product they uninstall or avoid using the product.
How do we solve this issue?
When thinking about it from the perspective of a new user and their requirements they require guidance to set up their smart home.
Home Page
The Core of the product relies on the home page. So I had ask the following questions before making decisions on what to represent
What are all the pieces of information the user want to see on this page?
What type of representation makes it easier for the user to understand information better?
How can this page help users navigate to other pages?
From the first few iterations, I was able to pull in the most of pieces of information the users would want to see in the page. But after auditing the page from the user’s lense I figured out that the layout and presentation of the information were overwhelming to the users.
So I figured out an alternative way to represent the information on the page.
The routines helps the user to add multiple smart home devices as a group and control them all manually or automatically in a set time.
The user can also add and control individual smart home devices to a particular room of the house.
From the bottom navigation, the user can give a voice-over command to control a device. It also helps them navigate to the profile section of the user.
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