Smart Blind AppProviding intelligent 🤓 window and door covering solutions that rise and fall with the sunlight ☀️ and your unique schedule.
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How might we create a companion app for the smart blinds that provides relevant features and rivals smart home experts Google and Amazon.
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Success for this engagement looked a little different than a typical one. The client was marching toward a trade show where they would need to gather buy-in from the window industry. While the end user is representing throughout the process, a vital goal was creating a working prototype of the app to be demoed at the trade show.
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I was the Lead UX Designer for the entire project, working in tandem with a team of project managers, strategists, hardware engineers and a team of full-stack developers.
Discover & Define
To compete with smart home giants like Google and Amazon, we needed to know our users well— like, really well. We took ample time to understand their pain points so we could tailor the experience perfectly for them. We considered how the user would purchase the blinds, whether they would come fully charged, and who would be installing them.
User Interviews • Market Research • Competitor Matrix • Journey Mapping • User Flows
Design & Deliver
Feeling like I knew the persona’s like they were my own family, I was well equipped to move into design and testing. I paid special attention to the entire onboarding experience and documentation of user actions and the subsequent reactions from the blinds.
Wireframes • Prototyping • Usability Testing • Design System
Final Impact
The final deliverable was a fully functioning prototype that was demoed at the window-industry trade show. It had massive success and many window manufacturers were lined to up partner with the project.
However, the project hit a snag; there were copyright issues at play that went deeper than the experience. The final design was white-labeled until the final branding could be resolved and layered back in.
Initial usability tests showed positive feedback and a healthy market for the product, so the project still has every intention of launching.