Rapid prototyping

Light switch

We were separated into groups, then were told to redesign the light switch used for the room. We started by picking apart the light switch and saying what was good and bad about it. We decided that there was too many buttons, and that they were over complicating what a light switch should be which made it quite unfriendly for the user.

So we decided that the new design should be more simple and user friendly. We wanted the switch to be a touch screen panel on the wall, this would eliminate buttons all together and mean that there could be more functions in a smaller panel. The screen would turn on my tapping it, then there would be a circle that you touch to turn on the lights, this also allows you to have the lights at different brightness’. There would then be a small cog in the corner, that when pressed will take the user to the settings page, where they can access a section where they can set up times when the lights will automatically turn on or off, you can also get to the Eco mode settings.