Consumer IoT

Pro lighting, made effortless

Professional-grade connected lighting, reframed for the consumer smart home, enterprise depth under the hood, one-tap simplicity on the surface.

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Color picker
Daily light control
Mesh node map
Daily control · color · topology, one app, three depths
The Brief

Enterprise depth, consumer ease

The strategic opportunity: take enterprise-grade lighting technology, mesh networks, circadian tuning, fleet management, and make it feel as simple as a single switch, to compete directly in the consumer smart-home market.

Enterprise users tolerate friction; consumers abandon it. Every flow had to hide the complexity without removing the power.

Role
Product Designer
Scope
Research & IAUI system · Prototype
Platform
iOS & Android
Users
Residents · Power usersProperty managers
Domain
Consumer IoT · Lighting
Scale
32 → 247 devices
Challenge

Power without complexity

Three tensions shaped every screen, each a constraint the design had to resolve, not a trade-off to accept.

01
Consumers abandon friction
The daily essentials must be reachable in one tap; everything configuration-related stays hidden until asked for.
02
Topology is intimidating
Users don't need to understand a mesh network, they need to trust that it just works, at any size.
03
Install is a chore
Commissioning had to happen before anything is mounted, scan a device in its box, assign it, done.
The Daily Control Screen

Everything you use, one tap away

Color, warm-white, kelvin, and presets, one picker that flexes to how you actually think about light, without a settings maze.

Color picker
Color
Kelvin white picker
Warm ↔ cool
Scene presets
Presets
Approach

Hide the wiring, keep the power

Every advanced capability is there for the power user, but the resident never has to see it. The interface earns trust by being calm first, deep on demand.

01
One-tap daily control
Essentials reachable instantly; configuration tucked behind an accordion that only opens when you want it.
02
Invisible topology
The mesh is shown as a friendly node map, auto-grouping devices so a 32-device condo and a 247-device estate feel the same.
03
Commission before install
NFC/QR lets users scan a device still in the box, assign it to a room, and name it, before a single fixture is mounted.
04
Circadian, automatic
Light follows the day on its own, with simple manual override when someone wants to take the wheel.
Commission Before Install

Set up the light before it's on the wall

Scan a device in its box, watch it appear, and assign it to a room, the chore of installation turns into thirty seconds of satisfying feedback.

Scan a device
Scan in the box
Device found
Device found
Device added
Assigned & named
Outcome

A mesh you never have to think about

The same logical map scales from condo to estate, light follows a natural circadian rhythm, and property managers run many homes from one place, all without surfacing the underlying network.

Mesh auto-grouping
Auto-grouped mesh
Circadian automatic
Circadian, automatic
Circadian phases
Phases through the day
By the Numbers

Scope of the system

0
Devices at estate scale, one map
0-tap
To everything you use daily
0
User tiers, resident, power user, manager
0h
Circadian rhythm, fully automatic
SELF-DIRECTED CONCEPT, NOT VALIDATED PRODUCT METRICS.

Users don't need to understand the mesh, they need to trust that it works. The product's job is to make the complexity disappear.

Design principle · Smart Lighting
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