BOSE is best known for its home audio systems and speakers, noise-cancelling headphones, professional audio products and automobile sound systems. The Home Theater was a stereo system with an integrated TV UI, dedicated Remote Control peripheral, and Native Mobile control application.
Projects and Accomplishments
• Joint Hardware and Software project
• Designed consistent screen layouts for TV, Tablet and Smartphone
• Co-ordinated Concept Designs with in-house Developers remotely
• Technical line art for Equipment Terms, Documentation
Challenge: Dark and Dusty UI
Earlier generations of BOSE’s Home Theater included a Setup Wizard that was more than a decade old. The previous visual style was an overly cluttered skeuomorphic mess of dark, glowing textures and beveled borders. Not only did the existing UI need a serious visual face-lift, the entire User Experience had to translate across multiple interfaces – TV, Tablet, and Smartphone
Solution
I established a clean and open layout. This accomplished more than just modernizing the UI’s appearance, it provided a better contextual link between the multiple interfaces.
Example: Searching for Television Brands – On the TV platform, the user must interface with the on-screen ABC keyboard using their remote control. Then, the user must key over to a list of available brands and select one.
In comparison, the mobile platform uses the phone’s default QWERTY keyboard and a scrollable carousel list. These are two significantly different User Experiences. Providing clean visual landmarks helps the user intuitively locate similar cues across multiple systems.
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