UX / UI / Strategy / Prototyping
Veev
Smart Home
Management
Role /
Interaction Design, UI/UX, Prototyping
Team /
NewDealDesign -
Gadi Amit, Stephanie Lee, Eliza Tehan
Timeline /
2020 - 4 Months

01. About

A smart-home interface for Veev, a startup reinventing the way we build and experience living spaces.

Veev is a real-estate technology company building the future of smart communities. This project explores the design of their first set of digital tools for home control and management. The work shown here is only a sliver of the MVP digital ecosystem we designed for Veev, but represents some of my work designing and prototyping custom control interactions.

Designing the Smart Home from the foundation up.

Veev partnered with NewDealDesign to design an Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU), a brand, and a set of MVP digital products to control and manage homes within veep smart-communities. The two first digital products are an app and a wall-mounted home control panel, described below.

02. Exploration

Control Stacks

Stacking all the lights and blinds in a room allow users to easily adjust the entire room at once. The stack acts as a “adjust all” feature.

Expand Devices

Tapping the stack expands to show all the lights or blinds in that room, giving the user the ability to control each one individually.

Full-Screen Interaction

As the user begins to adjust an item, the control interface takes over the entire screen allowing the user to use larger gestures that require less concentration.

03. Prototyping

Initial Prototyping With Principle

Principle can be used in unconventional ways to prototype unique interactions. We used these prototypes for internal testing and to get buy-in from key stakeholders.

Detailed Prototyping With P5.JS

This prototype was built from scratch with p5.js a javascript library. It was used to refine the interaction and behavior of the controls as well as communicate subtle details to Veev’s software engineers.

04. Final Design

Control multiple lights together with multi-light control stacks

Tapping the "All Lights" button will toggle all lights on/off. You can lower or raise the brightness of the lights in unison by dragging outward on the room's "Lights Stack".

Control individual lights to fine-tune the ambiance.

There are times when presets or whole room control won't cut it and you need to dial in each light individually. Expanding the stack reveals controls for each light in the room.

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