Smart Home Systems
- Teral, Bodkin Technologies Pvt Ltd
PartyBowl is an API that could be integrated as a feature with all food delivery platforms to help make the group order process easy and hassle-free.
Collaborated with Bodkin Technologies Pvt Ltd, a startup in the home automation industry to design web and mobile applications for their smart home devices
Role: Product Designer
Setting: A collaborative design team
Timeline: 12 months
The Problem
Bodkin Technologies need a better way to operate and control their smart home devices because their customers currently use a rudimentary web application, initially developed to test the functionality of the connected devices, making it less user-friendly.
The application enables you to control all your equipment at home from anywhere in the world through your smartphone tablet or PC.
The Process
01
Empathize
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Interviews (Interviewed the initial customers)
02
Define
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Identified pain points
03
Ideate
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Made journey maps
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Stroryboarding and paper wireframes
04
Prototype
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Made Low-fidelity protytypes
05
Test
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Conducted Usability testing of the low-fidelity prototypes
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Made High-fidelity prototypes
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We started by interviewing the stakeholders to get a deeper understanding of the product and then interviewed their customers.
Discovery
Stakeholder Discussions
Customer Interviews
Rudimentary web application is not intuitive
It is difficult to search and find connected devices
Devices were arraged into various modules. This system was confusing
Only allows to turn the lights on and off, and does not have a dimmer.
Each device has to be controlled individually, which is time-consuming.
Pain Points
Features
Option to view the list of devices or to categorize them into rooms.
Recently used devices appear on the home screen
Devices were categorized into rooms and eliminated the module system
Quick actions to control a set of devices together.
Mockups
