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Feit Electric
A smart-home app that leads with rooms, not devices
A concept app for controlling Feit Electric smart lighting. Most smart-home apps present a flat list of paired devices, which matches how the hardware is registered and not how anyone reasons about their house. This set organizes the same controls by room first — kitchen, living room, garage — and treats the device list as the secondary view. Alongside control it covers the two screens these apps usually bury: what the lighting is costing, and what it is saving.
The idea
A smart bulb is registered as a device, so most apps for them show you a list of devices. That is the manufacturer’s model, not the customer’s. Nobody stands in their kitchen thinking about a paired endpoint; they think kitchen.
So the primary screen here is rooms, each showing what is on and what it is drawing. Devices still exist — you need them to pair hardware and to fix things — but they sit behind a tab rather than in front of the person who just wants the pendants off.
The other decision worth naming is that consumption is a first-class screen rather than a settings page. A smart bulb’s whole commercial argument is that it costs less to run, and an app that never shows you the number is not making the argument it was bought on.
The screens
Welcome
Log in
Rooms — the default view
Inside a room
Fixture controls
Devices
Usage
Savings, per room