Product Design · Smart Home · Interface Design
Living Systems
Designing the Interface Between Humans and Intelligent Environments
- Role
- Creative Director · Product Designer · Systems Thinker
- Year
- 2023–2025
- Categories
- Product + AI · Experience · Innovation
- Tools
- Home Assistant · UniFi · Lutron · Figma · Span · Automation
Overview
Living Systems elevates smart-home work beyond hobbyist dashboards into a study of ambient computing — the home as a coordinated operating environment rather than a collection of apps.
The Challenge
A modern home runs dozens of disconnected apps — lighting, cameras, access, climate, energy, vehicles, displays. Each solves one thing; together they create friction. The challenge was orchestration and a coherent control hierarchy.
Creative Direction
Direction focused on human-centered automation: an interface language that unifies UniFi, cameras, access, lighting, climate, energy, and vehicles under one calm, legible system. The home becomes ambient — present when needed, invisible when not.
