Zooly is an informative energy tracking app for household appliances. We propose that it be provided by local power companies as a way to help families conserve energy and money and have built the app off the concept of energy disaggregation, which takes a whole-home energy signal and separates it into its component appliances.
Zooly puts a playful spin on energy tracking by visually personifying home appliances as living, breathing pets in a menagerie of sorts. They can be healthy, sick, a vampire, or a ghost and hopefully, they prompt the owners to be more mindful of the way they use their appliances. In our prototype, we specifically focused on 3 parts of the Zooly experience: 1) how to add a new appliance 2) how to monitor all appliances 3) how to look into a specific appliance.
Skill: Concept development, UI design, keynote prototyping, storyboarding, product video editing.
Collaborated with Michie Cao.
Zooly - Product Concept Video
Zooly - Interface Prototype Demo Video
APPLIANCE STATES - One of our goals for this project was to figure out how to visually communicate the health of an appliance at first glance. We came up with four common states - health, sick, vampire, and ghost - and took inspiration from anime and cartoon drawings in expressing those conditions.
Interface Screenshots (from left to right) - Intro page; Adding a new appliance; Appliances dashboard; Appliance status page
Appliance Status - Zooly will provide maintenance/energy tips on how to better manage a specific appliance, such as replacing an AC's filter or unplugging a vampire toaster. It will also tell you how much it will cost you to use the appliance during off hours and peak hours and how well it performs in comparison to a standard appliance on the market right now.
A closer look of a "vampire" appliance status - Zooly informs you about the appliance maintainance tip and the peak hour energy consumption. Through intuitive visualization graph user can easily get a sense of the peak hour performance.
Concept Development - Paper prototyping; User flow and interface sketches
Keynote Prototyping