GadgetlyHome

A smart home planner that starts from your home and its annoyances, not from products

Play a day: a floor plan and a timeline showing what each device does through the day

Role: Research, UX, UI, prototyping and build
Focus: Web app, Research, Smart home

Problem

Smart home shopping starts with products, not with your home. I asked r/smarthome how people decide what to buy. The post got 13K views and 30 comments, and the strongest pattern in the 19 real answers was to start from an annoyance, not a device. People also distrusted tools that claim to know better.

Approach

So I designed GadgetlyHome around that. You tap the rooms that bother you, and devices appear where they help, each with a plain reason you can keep or remove. Then you “play a day” to see what each one does, and leave with a priced, ordered plan and where to buy. Solar is sized down to the panel. No account needed.

Highlights

Research-driven design decisions
Four flow framings built and compared
A planned A/B test to raise sign-up confirmation

Set up your home: pick a layout, then tap a room to edit its objects — Your home: pick a layout, then tap a room to edit what is in it.

Budget and priority: a budget slider, a top priority and how hands-on you want to be — Your life: budget, top priority, and how hands-on you want to be.