THE PROBLEM
Within the past few years, many of my friends have begun to use smart lighting devices and when looking at the market as a whole, this appears to be a growing trend. In 2019, the comfort and lighting segment of smart homes amounted to nearly $6 billion in revenue with a projected annual growth rate of 26.6% (Statista).
The projected increases in household adoption rate and average revenue imply that demand for smart lighting devices is expected to grow. With that, a supply of new smart lighting devices will keep pace, bringing new options to consumers across all price segments and introducing a host of new smart lighting apps.
Many of the current smart lighting apps lack any cross-brand interactivity, meaning some users are downloading upwards of three to four apps just to control their lights. Additionally, these apps lack many essential functions such as combined color temperature and brightness automation, wake-up/sleep lighting schedules, and detailed lighting energy consumption metrics.
THE SOLUTION
Candela - a Universal Smart Lighting Automation app that lets you take control of your lighting by helping you create lighting schedules, keep track of energy usage, and housing all of your smart lighting devices under one roof.
PROCESS
1. Research existing systems and their shortcomings
2. Develop personas and scenarios
3. Team design charrettes
4. Create initial low-fidelity wireframes
5. Mid-fidelity mockups
6. Create a brief narrative digital prototype for management sign off
7. Mid-fidelity prototype
8. User testing
9. High fidelity prototype for final reference
PERSONA AND SCENARIO EXAMPLE
ANNOTATED DESIGN CHARRETTE SKETCHES
LOW/MID-FIDELITY WIREFRAMES
DIGITAL NARRATIVE PROTOTYPE
