SMART HOME APPLICATION
SMART HOME APPLICATION
SMART HOME APPLICATION
Sentri : Effortless Control, Uncompromised Security
Sentri : Effortless Control, Uncompromised Security
Sentri : Effortless Control, Uncompromised Security
UI / UX Design | UX Research
UI / UX Design | UX Research
UI / UX Design | UX Research
"Sentri" is like having a vigilant guard for your home-smart, secure, and always on duty to keep things running smoothly and safely!
"Sentri" is like having a vigilant guard for your home-smart, secure, and always on duty to keep things running smoothly and safely!
"Sentri" is like having a vigilant guard for your home-smart, secure, and always on duty to keep things running smoothly and safely!
Duration
Duration
Duration
12 weeks
12 weeks
12 weeks
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
UX researcher🕵️♀️✍️
UI designer 🎨📱
UX designer💡📐
Usability Tester🛠️👩🔬
UX researcher🕵️♀️✍️
UI designer 🎨📱
UX designer💡📐
Usability Tester🛠️👩🔬
UX researcher🕵️♀️✍️
UI designer 🎨📱
UX designer💡📐
Usability Tester🛠️👩🔬
Tools
Tools
Tools
Figma
Figma
Figma
Discord
Discord
Discord
FigJam
FigJam
FigJam
Mission Overview
Mission Overview
Sentri is a smart home app built to make managing your devices easier and more enjoyable. Over three months, our team worked to design a simple, user-friendly interface that brings together all your smart home technologies into one seamless experience.
Sentri is a smart home app built to make managing your devices easier and more enjoyable. Over three months, our team worked to design a simple, user-friendly interface that brings together all your smart home technologies into one seamless experience.
What's the Issue?
What's the Issue?
Managing smart home devices often feels overwhelming and fragmented 🤯. Users crave a solution that brings simplicity, automation, and privacy together in one seamless, intuitive app—making their homes smarter and their lives easier 🌈✨.
Managing smart home devices often feels overwhelming and fragmented 🤯. Users crave a solution that brings simplicity, automation, and privacy together in one seamless, intuitive app—making their homes smarter and their lives easier 🌈✨.
The Solution
The Solution
Create a unified smart home app that combines all devices into one intuitive platform 🌟, offering seamless automation, customizable scenes, and robust privacy controls 🛡️. With interactive tutorials and effortless setup, managing the smart home will feel like magic 🎩✨!
Create a unified smart home app that combines all devices into one intuitive platform 🌟, offering seamless automation, customizable scenes, and robust privacy controls 🛡️. With interactive tutorials and effortless setup, managing the smart home will feel like magic 🎩✨!
Outcome Extravaganza
Outcome Extravaganza
Sentri app showcases a sleek and modern design that offers effortless control and uncompromised security features.
Home screen presents a user-friendly dashboard, featuring customizable scenes for different areas of the home, device tracking capabilities, and quick access to tutorials, making it an intuitive smart home management solution.
Sentri app showcases a sleek and modern design that offers effortless control and uncompromised security features.
Home screen presents a user-friendly dashboard, featuring customizable scenes for different areas of the home, device tracking capabilities, and quick access to tutorials, making it an intuitive smart home management solution.
Scenes page highlights a streamlined interface for creating and managing custom smart home setups, allowing users to group multiple devices into personalized scenes like "Living Room" or "Morning Routine" for one-tap activation.
Connected Devices page provides an organized view of all linked devices, with clear status indicators and quick access to controls, making it easy to manage and troubleshoot smart home components.
Scenes page highlights a streamlined interface for creating and managing custom smart home setups, allowing users to group multiple devices into personalized scenes like "Living Room" or "Morning Routine" for one-tap activation.
Connected Devices page provides an organized view of all linked devices, with clear status indicators and quick access to controls, making it easy to manage and troubleshoot smart home components.
Track Devices page provide a clear and intuitive way to monitor the activity of connected devices, showing which sensors (like cameras, microphones, or temperature sensors) are active and when.
Users can easily deactivate specific sensors or set time limits, offering greater control and transparency—an outcome inspired by user feedback during our contextual inquiry.
Track Devices page provide a clear and intuitive way to monitor the activity of connected devices, showing which sensors (like cameras, microphones, or temperature sensors) are active and when.
Users can easily deactivate specific sensors or set time limits, offering greater control and transparency—an outcome inspired by user feedback during our contextual inquiry.
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
Contextual Inquiry(Research)
Contextual Inquiry
(Research)
We dove deep into how people really use their smart home gadgets by spending time with eight different users.
We dove deep into how people really use their smart home gadgets by spending time with eight different users.
Key Insights
Key Insights
🛠️ Users want intuitive setups and seamless device integration into daily life.
🎨 Personalization and fun features are highly valued, allowing users to express their unique personalities.
🔒 Privacy and security are critical concerns, with trust being a major factor for adoption and continued use.
😤 Common frustrations include unclear setup processes, technical challenges, and automation failures.
🛠️ Users want intuitive setups and seamless device integration into daily life.
🎨 Personalization and fun features are highly valued, allowing users to express their unique personalities.
🔒 Privacy and security are critical concerns, with trust being a major factor for adoption and continued use.
😤 Common frustrations include unclear setup processes, technical challenges, and automation failures.
User Challenges
User Challenges
🔒 Users worry about data security and feel uneasy about "always-on" devices, especially those requiring accounts for access.
⚙️ Setting up devices, navigating apps, and integrating products from different brands can be frustrating.
🤯 The abundance of options and features can be confusing, especially for non-tech-savvy users.
❌ Devices sometimes fail to perform automated tasks as expected, causing frustration.
🔒 Users worry about data security and feel uneasy about "always-on" devices, especially those requiring accounts for access.
⚙️ Setting up devices, navigating apps, and integrating products from different brands can be frustrating.
🤯 The abundance of options and features can be confusing, especially for non-tech-savvy users.
❌ Devices sometimes fail to perform automated tasks as expected, causing frustration.
Recommended Improvements
Recommended
Improvements
📱Make apps and devices easier to use with clear instructions, larger buttons, and guided tutorials.
🔗 Ensure devices from different brands work seamlessly together for hassle-free operation.
🔒 Provide transparent data policies and try to give sensory control of devices in hands of user to build trust.
⚙️ Refine automation features to ensure they work consistently and as intended.
📱 Make apps and devices easier to use with clear instructions, larger buttons, and guided tutorials.
🔗 Ensure devices from different brands work seamlessly together for hassle-free operation.
🔒 Provide transparent data policies and reduce the need for account-based controls to build trust.
⚙️ Refine automation features to ensure they work consistently and as intended.
🎨 Make customization features more accessible and easy to use so everyone can personalize their devices effortlessly.
Empathy Mapping
Empathy Maping
Persona Peek
Persona Peek
After brainstorming and mapping out different user types 🤔, our team created 4 unique personas to understand our potential users better.
After brainstorming and mapping out different user types 🤔, our team created 4 unique personas to understand our potential users better.
We then mixed the best parts of each persona, and boom! That's how Alex, our primary user persona turned out! ✨
We then mixed the best parts of each persona, and boom! That's how Alex, our primary user persona turned out! ✨
Creative Scribbles
Creative Scribbles
Low-Fi Lab
Low-Fi Lab
Putting it to the Test
Putting it to the Test
Our team of 4 people (👨💻 Rick, 👩💻 Neha, 👨💻 Taylor, and 👨💻 Shreyas), tested the smart home app prototype with users to see how well they could handle basic tasks. Here's what we discovered
Our team of 4 people (👨💻 Rick, 👩💻 Neha, 👨💻 Taylor, and 👨💻 Shreyas), tested the smart home app prototype with users to see how well they could handle basic tasks. Here's what we discovered
Key Findings
Key Findings
🎬 Users could locate the "Add Scene" option quickly but were unsure what it really does.
📊 Users struggled to find activity tracking as it was hidden in settings. They suggested adding quick access on the main dashboard.
🛠️ Users want intuitive setups and seamless device integration into daily life.
🎨 Personalization and fun features are highly valued, allowing users to express their unique personalities.
🔒 Privacy and security are critical concerns, with trust being a major factor for adoption and continued use.
😤 Common frustrations include unclear setup processes, technical challenges, and automation failures.
What's Being Fixed
What's Being Fixed
🏠 Moving important features to the home screen
📚 Consolidating all help resources
💡 Adding smart tips that appear while using features
🏠 Moving important features to the home screen
📚 Consolidating all help resources
💡 Adding smart tips that appear while using features
All these updates aim to make the app more intuitive for users like Alex, our tech-savvy target user 🎯
All these updates aim to make the app more intuitive for users like Alex, our tech-savvy target user 🎯
Early Hi-Fi iterations
Early Hi-Fi iterations
Started with basic UI mockups based on low-fi feedback, but users found them 'meh' 🤷♀️ - they said it worked but felt soulless and didn't spark joy.
After some creative soul-searching and design magic 🪄, I transformed those lifeless wireframes into something that made users go "wow" and actually feel connected to the experience! 🌟…
Started with basic UI mockups based on low-fi feedback, but users found them 'meh' 🤷♀️ - they said it worked but felt soulless and didn't spark joy.
After some creative soul-searching and design magic 🪄, I transformed those lifeless wireframes into something that made users go "wow" and actually feel connected to the experience! 🌟…
Hi-Fi Magic
Run-Down
Screens
In a Nutshell
In a Nutshell
The Sentri project was a collaborative effort 🤝 to simplify smart home technology 🏠, addressing user needs like seamless device integration, automation, and privacy protection. Through research, iterative design ✏️, and user testing 👨💻, we created an intuitive app that reduces complexity while enhancing daily life 🌈.
Sentri empowers users to manage their homes effortlessly✨, ensuring both functionality and fun. It’s smart living made simple!
The Sentri project was a collaborative effort 🤝 to simplify smart home technology 🏠, addressing user needs like seamless device integration, automation, and privacy protection. Through research, iterative design ✏️, and user testing 👨💻, we created an intuitive app that reduces complexity while enhancing daily life 🌈.
Sentri empowers users to manage their homes effortlessly✨, ensuring both functionality and fun. It’s smart living made simple!
Lessons Unlocked
Lessons
Unlocked
User-centered design is all about tackling real frustrations like privacy concerns and device issues to create solutions that really hit the mark 🎯. Small tweaks, like clearer instructions or better help, can work wonders in improving the user experience ✨. It’s all about balancing simplicity with functionality—users want intuitive designs but still need control 🎨.
Collaborating with my team sparked fresh ideas and better solutions 💡. Privacy is a top priority, so transparent data controls are essential 🛡️. And adding contextual help where it’s needed makes everything smoother 💪.
User-centered design is all about tackling real frustrations like privacy concerns and device issues to create solutions that really hit the mark 🎯. Small tweaks, like clearer instructions or better help, can work wonders in improving the user experience ✨. It’s all about balancing simplicity with functionality—users want intuitive designs but still need control 🎨.
Collaborating with my team sparked fresh ideas and better solutions 💡. Privacy is a top priority, so transparent data controls are essential 🛡️. And adding contextual help where it’s needed makes everything smoother 💪.
Thanks for checking out my project—now go tell your smart fridge I said hi! 👋
Thanks for checking out my project—now go tell your smart fridge I said hi! 👋
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Officially the end of the page 📜.
Unofficially the start of our collaboration? 🤝✨
Dreamed in daylight 🌅, built in the quiet of the night 🌙
Officially the end of the page 📜.
Unofficially the start of our collaboration? 🤝✨
Dreamed in daylight 🌅
built in the quiet of the night 🌙
Officially the end of the page 📜.
Unofficially the start of our collaboration? 🤝✨
Dreamed in daylight 🌅
built in the quiet of the night 🌙