01 / The question
What needed
exploring?
How might a household move from individual routines and energy use toward shared activities and more conscious choices?
← Selected work
04 / 04 UX/UI / MSc project
OURBIT
Connecting family time and energy awareness in one app.
Project
overview.
An interactive smart meter app concept that starts with shared family time and uses it as an opening for energy awareness.
Behavioural research · Interaction design · Figma prototype
Rhi independently designed and completed this project. Open the image for a larger view.
What needed
02 / The approach
How Rhi
worked.
Rhi used a lean design process to challenge research assumptions and define the problem. She applied the COM-B model and a risk matrix, then developed an empathy map, UX vision, design principles, wireframes and an interactive prototype.
03 / The outcome
What she
designed.
The prototype explores overlapping schedules, activity requests, family profiles, scores and energy information. Rhi’s final reflection identifies open questions about whether families would choose the activities, keep using the app and need digital prompts to connect. Smart-meter syncing and adaptive AI are proposed capabilities; measured savings or family outcomes are not claimed.
A design decision, in context
From family connection to energy use.
What informed it
Rhi mapped the problem from household fragmentation through reduced communication to individual energy use. The original research page makes her reasoning legible at full size.
What the work shows
The insight sequence led to a family schedule and shared activity concept. The wireframes and high fidelity screens show how she translated that decision into navigation and interface choices; energy savings and AI personalisation remain proposed capabilities.
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