Artificial Intelligence Enhancement
Automating Celebrations
Situation
Project Details
I love my Philips Hue lights, but they lack a key feature: scheduling and automating holiday lights in advance. While the app offers a wide range of colors, it’s missing predefined holiday scenes and the option to set future schedules, which would greatly improve the festive experience.
My Role
Customer / AI Product Designer
Date
July 2024
Project Type
MIT Designing & Building AI Products Assignment
Process
turning the lightbulb on
One promising enhancement to the Hue app could be the introduction of a dedicated holiday gallery, where users can easily create and toggle between ambiance lighting and holiday-specific scenes.To elevate this experience, AI-driven automation can be implemented in several key areas:
Philips Hue lacks the ability to schedule color changes in advance, which can lead users to forget during events or holidays. Introducing a feature to create, save, and schedule scenes for occasions like holidays, birthdays or sporting events could enhance user experience.
This concept centers around three main screens: a holiday gallery for users to chose from, the ability to create and preview custom scenes and a schedule overview.
The holiday gallery makes it easy to browse popular holidays, birthdays, and custom celebrations, showing what’s scheduled and what’s saved in the library.
The custom scene creator lets users preview how the lights will look on their actual home, making it more intuitive than Philips Hue’s current stock photo previews. The schedule overview gives a clear picture of upcoming lights, with both calendar and list views for flexible planning.
The holiday gallery makes it easy to browse popular holidays, birthdays, and custom celebrations, showing what’s scheduled and what’s saved in the library.
The custom scene creator lets users preview how the lights will look on their actual home, making it more intuitive than Philips Hue’s current stock photo previews. The schedule overview gives a clear picture of upcoming lights, with both calendar and list views for flexible planning.
AI can enhance the holiday gallery by pulling data from the internet or user calendars to factor in local holidays and events.
This way, the light schedules can be automatically adjusted, ensuring they’re always relevant to the occasion.
This way, the light schedules can be automatically adjusted, ensuring they’re always relevant to the occasion.
Users can input specific dates and desired lighting effects, and AI will automatically adjust the brightness, hue, and saturation based on the time of day and the specific event.
AI could introduce dynamic holiday themes that evolve over the holiday period, gradually transitioning from one color scheme to another, keeping the lighting fresh and engaging throughout the season.
To continuously improve the system, the AI could learn from user feedback, refining its scheduling and theme suggestions based on user satisfaction with the automated schedules.
Action
Recommended Solution
The screen design should integrate smoothly with Philips Hue's current interface while emphasizing improvements that relate to the features of the lights. Key enhancements include showcasing the lights' gradient effects directly within the UI/UX for a more immersive and authentic experience, replacing the use stock photography.
Customize your celebration Scene
schedule celebration scenes
Results
Final Deliverable
This project earned an A from MIT AI professionals and contributed to my certification in Building and Designing AI Products at MIT.
By Christmas 2024, permanent holiday lights with scheduling features gained popularity, validating the concept as a clear need and desire for users.
By Christmas 2024, permanent holiday lights with scheduling features gained popularity, validating the concept as a clear need and desire for users.
Supports advanced scheduling and automation of synchronized shows, letting you set specific times for your lights to run.
Includes a robust scheduling feature that allows you to pre-program lighting scenes and effects for specific dates and times.
Offers a scheduler tool that can run pre-designed light shows on a set schedule, perfect for holiday displays.
Features a calendar-based scheduler where you can program different lighting patterns and colors for holidays or special occasions well in advance.
