Dyson Lightcycle™
The Dyson LightCycle, the first connected light and a new category for Dyson in terms of connected products. Unlike what had been done before for the Dyson App, this wasn’t a UI re-skin or minor tweak, everything was being designed and thought about at the same time-product and app, another first for Dyson.
Designing the app had challenges - due to being done the same time the product was in development, the product was constantly changing with new things being added or removed. This meant at times the design would either change completely or had to have a major elements added to it. I thoroughly enjoyed this as it was also true in reverse, an idea would be had for the app and then would be changed on the product.
Eventually, working with the UX designers, key stakeholders, feature designers, developers and engineers the design ended up being a topdown view of a tabletop, allowing the user to see exactly the changes they were making replicated on the app (See below).
lANDING PAGE
This is the ‘landing page’ for the Dyson LightCycle. From here the user could access modes, controls, settings and be able to synchronise back to tracking daylight at the users location.
Displayed would be the mode that was currently active, location, name given to the product, kelvin and lux.
If the user increased the brightness (Lux) the centre of app screen would brighten, if they changed the Colour (Kelvin) the background colour would change. This would also happen automatically if the product was in synchronised mode, where it would track daylight at the users location.
Controls
There are 2 different types of controls; Manual control and Modes.
In Manual control, the user could alter the Kelvin (Colour temperature) and Lux (Brightness) to whatever they desired as well as turn off the light and if desired could ‘Boost’ the light which would increase the lux to 1000 (max) and increase the Kelvin to a bluer temperature.
In Modes, the user could choose from a bunch of pre-sets, these are Study, Relax, Precision and the ability to go back to synchronised (this could also be done via the middle button on the ‘landing page’) The user also has the option to add their own modes here for whatever occasion they wish.