ALARM.COM DESIGN CHALLENGE
An app featuring smart home technology that prioritizes and facilitates homeowner security and control.
The Challenge
Alarm.com professionals asked us to identify three new devices to integrate into their mobile interface. They tasked us with designing and wireframing proposed devices in line with their current app's style and navigation framework.
Proposed home screen with new product integration
Approach
We came up with three new devices to incorporate into the existing application that prioritizes and facilitates homeowner security and control. The three devices we chose were a smart mailbox, smart vents, and smart sockets. These devices will allow the user to be able to lock and secure their mailbox and monitor it by seeing live footage. They will also be allowed to adjust the individual vents and temperatures in each room to suit their preferences. Finally, they will be able to monitor and turn on and off different sockets within their house.
User Research
To come up with the types of products we wanted to incorporate, we thought of everyday problems that we encounter in our lives and what we might want to see or use in the future. We also asked our peers what they felt they needed and what they would want to control. From what we heard, we looked at the available smart technology on the market and what would find into the existing Alarm.com system.Prototyping
Because our task was to fit our devices into the pre-existing application interface, we started with a low fidelty digital prototype with some of the existing elements from the application.
Final Iteration
April 2019
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