Humane Lighting

2019

Freelance work from 2019, through Stephan Ye Design. Old screens, and a handoff problem I still run into.

AirGlow app showing a list of lighting systems and one project's zones with their groups and scenes — Browsing a portfolio of lighting systems, then drilling into one project's zones and scenes

LumenRadio builds wireless connectivity for IoT lighting. Its flagship product, the AirGlow™ smart light controller, connects lighting fixtures wirelessly and runs them as scenes. I was tasked with designing how every stakeholder, from light designers to installers to the person flipping the switch, interacts with it.

Desktop zone editor showing a hotel floor plan with pinned zones and a Setup Zone naming panel — A light designer naming and pinning zones directly on the floor plan, before any fixture goes in

AirGlow turns ceiling lights, ambient lights, and spotlights into scenes: sensors, triggers, and effects combined into a single lighting state a room can call up on demand. The interface had to make that complexity easy to set up and use, on a laptop for the person planning a project and a phone for the person installing it.

Mobile screens for configuring a presence sensor, then grouping luminaires and spotlights into an Office 02 scene with adjustable intensity — Wiring a presence sensor to a group of luminaires and spotlights, one scene at a time

The project started with a strategy for flexible light commissioning, one that could adapt across different project needs and light openings. Stakeholder interviews surfaced where the existing flow broke down: unclear transitions between design and install, design intent lost along the way, setup steps that were too complex.

Diagram of the AirGlow system architecture above a flowchart of the traditional light-commissioning process, marked with pain points at nearly every handoff — Mapping the system, then the traditional commissioning flow it ran on, a pain point at almost every handoff between planning, install, and use

Consolidating the workflow onto one platform gave every stakeholder a consistent experience and cut installation and calibration time. It also made troubleshooting easier and improved handoff across the three-phase Light Commissioning process: planning, installation, and daily use.

The same commissioning flow with LumenRadio's consolidated steps overlaid, most pain-point handoffs replaced by a single account-managed path — One account-managed flow layered over the old one: most of the red pain points become a single blue path