Silver Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design · 2021
Vestel Evin Akli Smart Home Mobile Application
by Vestel UX and UI Design Group
- A' Design Award 2021 Silver Winner in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Vestel UX/UI Design Group
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 40,019
- Verification code 2E6641537E · Verify this award
About Vestel Evin Akli Smart Home Mobile Application
Evin Akli is a mobile and television application for controlling and monitoring connected home appliances remotely. The interface and experience design are consistent across device groups, so users learn to control newly added appliances quickly. The flexible software architecture allows new devices, functions and features to be added over time. Functions such as remote control, an assistant, user scenarios and electricity consumption tracking are included. All features are compatible with voiceover and talkback for visually impaired users.
The Evin Akli Smart Home Mobile Application by Vestel UX/UI Design Group exemplifies the contemporary evolution of domestic technology interfaces, positioning itself within the broader tradition of human-centered design that prioritizes clarity, accessibility, and intuitive interaction paradigms. This presentation demonstrates the application's cross-platform coherence, displaying consistent visual language across monitor, smartphone, and tablet environments while adapting appropriately to each format's unique constraints and affordances. The compositional strategy reveals sophisticated understanding of information architecture, organizing household appliances into logical categorical groupings while providing immediate access to critical status data such as temperature readings, operational timers, and connectivity states through carefully designed card modules. The chromatic decisions reflect contemporary interface conventions while establishing distinctive brand identity through the graduated teal-to-cyan header treatment that evokes associations of technological freshness and environmental consciousness. Technical accomplishment is evident in the precise alignment systems, the harmonious proportional relationships between typographic elements, and the judicious application of color as functional signifier rather than mere decoration. The iconographic vocabulary demonstrates clarity of communication, with simplified line-drawn representations of household appliances achieving immediate recognition while maintaining aesthetic cohesion across the visual system. The washing machine detail screens visible at right reveal deeper interaction layers, presenting program options through an organized array of fabric care symbols and cycle selections that translate complex functionality into approachable visual choices. This interface invites consideration of how thoughtful design mediates between technological complexity and human understanding, transforming the management of interconnected domestic systems into an experience of empowered simplicity rather than overwhelming technicality.
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- Unique Properties
- Evin Akli which is a mobile application and TV. application developed for users to control and monitor their connected home appliances remotely anytime. Thanks to the similarly designed interface and experience design, learning to use and control the newly added devices takes short time for users. Architecture of Evin Akli mobile app supports to add new devices, functions and features with its flexible structure open to development.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The application is designed for all Android, iOS smart phone sizes and 16: 9 and wider Smart TVs.
- Tags
- smart home, home appliances, technology, smart devices, mobile application, smart tv app, remote control, remote monitoring
- Production Technology
- App is available on the market for both iOS and Android users.
- Design Challenge
- Evin Akli mobile application's interface is designed with the aim of easy understandable usage while considering Vestel smart devices' design style and today's aesthetic values. Control and configuration screens which are separately designed for each device group, provide user experience with simple and coherent visual architecture.
- Project Duration
- The Project started in 2018 in Manisa, realized in 2019 and still being developed.
- Operation Flow
- Evin Akli application has an easily understandable and usable UX / UI design and information architecture. Thanks to the application, remote commands can be given to the devices and the status of the devices can be learned. It provides convenience to the customer with its specialized functions such as Remote Control, Assistant, User Scenarios, and Easybill. Consistent UI and information architecture results in unified UX and enables users to control devices intuitively.
- Research
- Vestel UX Group do user researches and A/B testing according to appropriate user group for defining exact user needs and related project guidelines. UX Group, after creating user journey maps, combines them with suitable interfaces for create better user experiences for Vestel smart device’s users. While designing these interfaces, user research insights, emotional impacts, usage scenarios, various design architecture systems and actual design trends are considered.
- Inspiration
- Thanks to Evin Akli's meticulously created, flexible software and design architecture, the application easily adapts to new devices and features that will be added. Users can also track their electricity consumption levels. The user’s existing device is kept available to development with the new features and programs that will be added to the application. At the same time, all features are made available to the usage of visually impaired users with voiceover and talkback compatibility.
- Image Credits
- Main image #1 : Vestel UX/UI Design Group,Vestel
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