Reimagining the future
of smart homes
Hats worn
Speculative Designer
UX Researcher
Interaction Designer
Visual Designer
Team
Arunima Walimbe
Shruti Jain
Mentor
Timeline
4 months
Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
Technology is undergoing a generation change,
why should interface remain the same?
Let's Collaborate
arunimaw.design@gmail.com
Currently based out of San Francisco
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Opportunity
There lies a huge opportunity to enhance user experience and create meaningful interactions.
Problem
The uniformity of smart home applications hinders personalization, making it difficult to create unique experiences tailored to individual lifestyles and preferences.
Background
With IoT revolutionizing our interactions and smart homes becoming standard, many applications still lack personality, offering a uniform look despite the uniqueness of each home.
How can we craft a more personalized smart home experience?
And make technology an invisible part of our future homes.
Image credits: Pinterest
Introducing
a smart wallpaper
Take creative leaps • Imagine new realities • Relive memories
Image credits: Prompt engineering from Adobe Firefly
Here's how we built Soul, through
research & design thinking
Personalization
AI is collecting personal data, why not use it to build meaningful diverse experiences for people?
- a lens
Wellness
Fatigue and data homogeneity is th problem of the hour. Wellness at heart is a whole body-mind process which is best enabled by interconnections
- a mindfulness area
Entertainment
With immersive media entertainment can be catered to you, its the one thing that’s so subjective. It’s is way to build human connections
- a play area
We went out and studied what people
are looking for in their dream home
We identified 3 key user achetypes
& primarily designed our product for Raymond
Mapped out Raymond's user journey
Conducted a competitive landscape analysis
Narration by : Natasha Kingsley from the movie, The sun is also a star.
Now, imagine Raymond discovers
Soul & browses our website
Ray loves the idea of a smart wallpaper
& decides to buy the product
He downloads the app to get started
Ray can now interact with Soul
With Soul, his family's day in a life
could look like this
Image credits: Prompt engineering from Adobe Firefly
Behind the scenes of building a unique brand
Write your own story
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