Homehub
Overview
Why Homehub?
Home Hub is an app for remotely controlling and monitoring smart home devices like lights, thermostats, cameras, and more. It aims to enhance convenience, efficiency, and security by centralizing control over home automation.
Empathy
Building Persona & Empathy Map
Crafting personas, empathy maps helps me deeply understand users' needs and preferences.
Personas provide a comprehensive view of user demographics and preferences, empathy maps offer valuable insights into their emotions and experiences. Utilizing these tools enables me to make informed decisions, ensuring that the smart home app meets the diverse needs of users effectively.
User persona
Empathy Map
Define
Defining Problem and Envisioning Journey Map
Problem Statement and Hypothesis
After empathizing, I begin crafting the problem statement and hypothesis, drawing insights from both empathy and user personas. This ensures that the identified challenges and proposed solutions are deeply rooted in understanding the users' experiences and needs.
Journey Map
After this, I create user journey map to visualize the user's entire experience, capturing emotions, opportunities, and pain points. This comprehensive understanding further informs the design process, ensuring solutions align with user needs and expectations.
Ideation
Crafting User-Centered Solutions: Stories, Flows, Wireframes
Following the creation of journey maps, I proceed to develop user stories, user flows, and wireframes as part of the ideation phase.
User Stories
User Flow
App Navigation
Wireframes
Visual Output
UI and Interaction Design
In developing Home Hub, my primary focus was on crafting intuitive interfaces that facilitate seamless management of smart home devices. I applied design principles to enhance aesthetics while prioritizing user engagement and functional efficiency. This involved accurately translating user requirements into visually compelling and user-friendly interfaces for controlling various aspects of the smart home.
Adjusting device setting
Interaction for adjusting bedroom light brightness.
Adding a New Device
Interaction for adding a new device that's not just functional but a joy to experience.
Automation
Creating automation routine for adjusting water heater settings at specific times.