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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.

Selected Views

Energy, water, and environment — orchestrated in one view.
Energy, water, and environment — orchestrated in one view.
Climate and lighting — a single control hierarchy.
Climate and lighting — a single control hierarchy.
The network layer — every device, present and legible.
The network layer — every device, present and legible.

Outcomes

  • Reframed the smart home as a coordinated operating environment.
  • Designed a unified control hierarchy across systems.
  • Applied ambient-computing principles to everyday orchestration.

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