Room-Based Control
Devices are organized around real home zones, making control feel natural and easy to understand.
Technology & Media · 2025
Nexhome
A focused smart home platform shaped around device control, automation, and connected living.
Overview
Nexhome is a smart home platform developed for users managing connected devices across rooms, scenes, energy usage, security, and climate control. The work focused on creating a dark, immersive interface that brings daily home control, automation suggestions, device setup, and energy insight into one composed digital system.
Initial condition
Smart home systems often become fragmented across separate controls, device lists, schedules, and automation tools. The project needed stronger structure, clearer device hierarchy, and a more controlled relationship between room-based control, energy data, and automated scenes.
Design intent
- Create a calm command center for connected home control
- Make device status, usage, and automation easier to read
- Support room-based management across lights, appliances, climate, and security
- Guide users through device setup without technical friction
- Build a dark interface that feels premium, focused, and personal
Approach
- 01
Research
Understanding smart home behavior, daily control patterns, room logic, and automation use cases.
- 02
Direction
Defining a dark, atmospheric product experience that feels closer to a home environment than a technical dashboard.
- 03
System
Developing device cards, room filters, scene controls, energy charts, QR activation, and setup flows.
- 04
Application
Extending the system across mobile screens, desktop dashboards, automation scenes, garage control, and device onboarding.
- 05
Refinement
Adjusting contrast, spacing, card rhythm, status labels, and interaction states for a clearer control experience.
Visual language
The visual language is built on a dark gradient background, soft black cards, violet accents, rounded controls, and compact status indicators. Each screen uses controlled spacing, low-contrast depth, and clear active states to make the interface feel calm, modern, and easy to operate.
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Deliverables
- Smart home overview dashboard
- Mobile device management screens
- Usage status dashboard
- Automation scenes screen
- Garage management dashboard
- Room-based device control
- Energy consumption insights
- Recommended automation panel
- Device updates module
- Add device setup flow
- Device detection and compatibility check
- Device customization and final setup screens
Key design moves
Clear Device Status
Each card shows whether a device is active, weak, disconnected, or ready for adjustment.
Automation Suggestions
The system recommends useful actions, helping users reduce manual control without losing oversight.
Energy Awareness
Usage charts, schedules, and reports help users understand consumption across devices and rooms.
Guided Device Setup
The add-device journey breaks technical setup into clear steps from category selection to final configuration.
Atmospheric Dark Interface
The visual system creates a calm smart-home mood while keeping controls readable and direct.
Outcome
The final system gave Nexhome a clear and premium smart home experience across mobile and desktop. The platform connects device control, automation, energy tracking, room management, and setup into one consistent interface built around comfort, clarity, and control.
A clear smart home system makes connected living easier to manage, adjust, and trust.
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