Hisense, ConnectLife 3.0

Smart living is only one app away.

Project Details

Category: UX/UI design
Discipline: UI design, UX design, configurator, AR product placement
Team: Individual project

ConnectLife app’s new shop feature for Hisense appliances and testing them in your home with AR.

One app

for the Hisense Group brands, each keeping its own identity.

360° and AR

to see the chosen appliances, or place them in your own home, before buying.

Sustainable habits

with tips for energy-efficient cooking, laundry and everyday energy use.

Context

Hisense Group brings together several household appliance brands.

Until now, many of them have had their own separate apps for controlling smart appliances, so users with devices from different brands had to switch between several apps, each with its own logic and interface.

The project started from the question of how to improve the user experience of the ConnectLife app and turn it into a single platform for the whole Hisense Group smart home ecosystem.

Hisense, Gorenje, ASKO, ATAG, Pelgrim, VIDAA

Platform

ConnectLife 3.0 unifies all brands in one app while keeping each brand’s identity.

After signing up, users choose their brand, and the app adapts its look and feel. The designer developed the concept further for the Hisense brand.

Besides connecting and controlling smart appliances by category, the app includes a sustainable habits section with tips for energy-efficient cooking, laundry and everyday energy use.

Two screens: Connect, with the Hisense categories smart laundry, smart kitchen, smart air treatment and smart TV and audio; Sustainable habits, with favourites, cooking, laundry and energy consumption — Connect appliances by category, or open the tips on sustainable habits.

Shopping

The new feature has an integrated shopping experience.

Users can choose an appliance category, select the appliances they need, such as a washing machine and dryer, decide on a side-by-side or stacked configuration and compare models by dimensions, capacity and features.

The chosen appliances can be viewed in 360° or placed in the user’s own home with augmented reality. The virtual appliance blends with the real environment, so users can check how it fits their space and looks in their interior before buying, and capture a photo or video to share. The appliance can then be added to the cart directly in the app.

Two screens: Choose appliances, with washing machine, washer-dryer and dryer; Choose configuration, with side-by-side or stacked — Choose the appliances, then a side-by-side or stacked configuration.

Two screens for choosing a washing machine model: models listed with their capacity and dimensions, and one model opened to show its features and specifications — Compare models by dimensions, capacity and features.

Hand holding a phone with the ConnectLife screen View the appliances in your room: a washing machine shown in 360°, with an AR button below

360° viewThe chosen appliances can be viewed in 360° before they are placed in the room with AR.

Hand holding a phone in a sage-green bathroom; the AR screen says Point the phone down towards an empty space and move it slowly — “Point the phone down towards an empty space and move it slowly.”

The same bathroom through the phone, now with a stacked dryer and washing machine placed in AR, and the tip The appliance adapts to your environment by blending in with the real world — The virtual appliance blends with the real environment.

Two screens: the AR view with Press for photo and Hold to record video; Chosen models and configuration, with Add to cart and 3D buttons

Share, then buyPress for a photo or hold to record a video of the appliance in the room, then add it to the cart without leaving the app.

Result

With a clean, intuitive and recognisable design, ConnectLife 3.0 connects control, sustainability and shopping in one place and makes choosing the right appliance simpler and smarter.

ConnectLife 3.0, from the brand choice to AR placement.

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