Hearth
UX Research
Mobile + TV
Prototyping
A smart home app where everyone in the household gets their own space, not just whoever set it up.
Right now, one person sets up the smart home and everyone else is locked out. Your mom wants to turn off a light but she'd need a full account to do that. You open the app and it's all your dad's routines. And nobody can see who's allowed to control what.
Hearth lets you invite household members with a link instead of a full account, gives everyone their own profile with personal routines and preferences, and makes permissions visible so people actually know what they can and can't control.
Methods
Research
Competitive Audit
Contextual Interviews
Insight Synthesis
Design
Frictionless Invite Flow
Profile Switching & My Comfort
Permission Management
Validation
Household Usability Testing
Onboarding Iteration
Permission Visibility Testing

