SLATE MIRROR
(2019)
Slate Mirror is a prospective innovative product that acts as a sleek dashboard to improve morning/night productivity without having to rely on your smartphones.
User interface was designed to be simplistic and with acknowledgement of the mirror features. User experience was tested through usability tests and interactive prototyping.
The team conducted/implemented competitive analyses, personas, surveys, scenario tests, interaction frameworks, wire-framing, ethical considerations and more before reaching the final product design.
Team Members: Rachel Lackmann, Ashley Chen
ABSTRACT
Slate acts as your dashboard for everything you need, making your routines easier. Getting ready in the morning or wrapping up the day at night is made simpler with a view of the weather forecast, calendar, news, notifications and more. Fast wireless internet connection provided from Slate’s external app makes productivity easier. Slate syncs to your calendars, music streaming services, and more, making it a completely custom experience. Slate can also help remind you to take medicine, follow a skincare routine, or even to brush your teeth before you leave.
Using a pressure sensitive screen allows for Slate to serve as a touchscreen mirror to assist you in your daily tasks. The usage of a mirror as a base with a glass and plastic film with a grid of electrical conductors result in a highly responsive and multi-functional product. Coding from multiple sources and languages are used to create the technical wireframe and interface to produce the responsive functions of the mirror. This product widely diversifies the purposes of mirrors in homes. The range of capabilities that other intelligent mirrors have out today are very limited and also presented non‑commercialized platforms and more of an innovative idea or project than a fully developed and marketed product.
Many iterations/wireframes were adjusted after receiving feedback from usability tests, critiques, as well as adapted to fit our persona’s scenarios.
PROCESS
DESIGN
For the design of the elements that appear on the mirror, the team had to think about what kind of colors would realistically appear on a complex surface where legibility can easily be an issue. We used a range of light colors and a bold accent color (golden hour yellow) to highlight certain features throughout the interface. Branding was kept sleek and simple.