Client: Bex exercise, My role: UX Design, Work with: alone.
Project Overview
The goal in a smart home is to plan and implement a comprehensive system of a smart home that improves the convenience of operating electrical devices while monitoring their energy efficiency and providing the possibility to program repetitive activities in various home systems.
42% of people have installed a smart home system in their home.
KPI
voice control:
Enable voice control of smart home devices.
User friendly interface:
Design an intuitive user interface that is easy to navigate and understand, suitable for users of all ages and all technical backgrounds.
Energy management:
Integrate energy monitoring capabilities to track energy consumption patterns of the devices and suggest how to optimize energy consumption, reduce energy waste in order to reduce the payment of the electricity bill.
Smart automation:
Incorporate machine learning algorithms to analyze user preferences, routines and environmental conditions to automate tasks.
Provide customization options for users to create custom automation scenarios based on their specific needs.
Remote access and control:
Allow all users from small to large ()to remotely control home devices with secure matching mechanisms so that only authorized users can access the system and control it and according to areas.
Challenges and reaserch solutions
Educational Value
Challenge: Maximizing the educational potential of smart home technology for children while creating fascinating and age-appropriate content in addition to the normal functions of a smart home.
My Solution: offering a variety of educational apps, games and activities that cater to different interests and learning styles at the Play Center.
Accessibility
Challenge: Smart home technology should be accessible to everyone, children and adults alike, and be suitable for disabled people as well.
My Solution: I designed user interfaces suitable for adults and children personally. Also, the possibility of giving voice commands to operate the devices.
Safety and Security
Challenge: Children may accidentally operate or manipulate smart home devices, leading to safety hazards or unauthorized access.
My Solution: implementing in Settings child-proof “locks”, limiting their access to certain devices or certain actions.
Screen Time Management
Challenge: Children may accidentally operate or manipulate smart home devices, leading to safety hazards or unauthorized access.
My Solution: implementing in Settings limits on activity time when using certain devices, these limits will be set exclusively by the parents.
Ease of Use
Challenge: The adults’ ability to control both adding/removing rooms.
My Solution: empty state in room control you can create rooms by adding or rename them in a click.
Menu by User
Challenge: Unique use for each member of the household, adapted according to their needs and desires.
My Solution: Each user has his own profile where he can change everything – the devices that exist in the room he is in, the total number of connected devices, all programs, adding/removing rooms, adding/removing devices and more. For example: the subscription of Avi.
Personas
UI Design
