Internet of Things

We based our target audience on interviews with potential customers. User journeys and personas gave us a better understanding about what the user’s really want and need from a smart mirror. Most of them already own a lot of different wearables like smart watches and smart blood pressure monitors and some of them also use smart home devices. Nearly all wearables have their own app however there is currently nothing that can give the user an overview of their current health status and their upcoming day.

Before we started designing our own smart mirror we researched different existing smart mirrors. Nearly all of them had the same problems. Some couldn’t be used as a normal mirror anymore, because data was covering the user’s face and others were covered in fingerprints because the mirror had a touch interface.

Based on the core features from our research, we started building our own smart mirror with wireframes. We assembled a prototype using a smart TV and a two way mirror early on in the project. This prototype was especially helpful for testing different colours as well as the face tracking function and the interaction with the mirror through swipe gestures and voice recognition. Our main focus was on creating a clean and meaningful user interface. To allow every user to personalize their own dashboard according to their needs the design had to be modular.