A mobile control panel for connected climate — set points, comfort profiles, schedules, and exceptions.

A smart-thermostat app for connected buildings — set the week once, drop in a one-off exception when life changes, and trust the routine to resume on its own.

IoT Smart Control

Role: Lead Product Designer
Timeline: 2022 – Present
Client: Facilio

The problem

A smart thermostat is only smart while nothing changes. Leave early, work from home, fly out — and most apps make you fight the automation or tear up the schedule.

The goal: set the week once, drop in a one-off change, and trust the plan to resume on its own.

The idea

Profiles name the comfort. Home, Away, Vacation — set the numbers once, refer to them by name.
The schedule places them in time. A day is just blocks handing off to each other.
Exceptions sit on top, never instead. Every override has an end date, and the routine stays visible beneath it.

The control panel

Home answers three questions in order: what is it right now, is the system on, can I change it.

Switch to Heat and the slider warms to amber and a fan-speed card slides in. Only the current mode's controls appear.

On, off, and heating — off greys out every control.

1State before controls

Indoor temperature and power lead; weather and last sync are context.

2Occupancy is the big lever

Auto, Home, Away, Vacation — one tap switches the whole target.

3Set point, colour-coded

Blue for cooling, amber for heating.

4Mode as chips

Power, Auto, Heat, Cool — one reversible choice.

Top to bottom — status, occupancy, target, mode.

Comfort profiles

Three named presets, each a bundle of heating, cooling and fan speed, described by intent rather than numbers. Vacation reframes the same editor as “preference” — keep it safe, not comfortable.

1Intent first

“Keep your home cozy when you’re there” — each profile leads with why.

2Heating and cooling together

A profile is a complete comfort stance, on one line.

3Fan carries the energy story

Home runs 40% / 80%; Away and Vacation lean on Auto.

Three profiles at a glance.

Home, Away, Vacation — the same anatomy every time.

The schedule

A week strip over a timeline of comfort blocks — a calendar, not a config screen.

Adding a block asks three things: which profile, which days, what start time. No end time — the next block is the end.

Pick a profile, pick days, pick a time.

Each block hands off to the next; the last one holds “Until Next Day.”

Exceptions

“Today is different.” Flip the same sheet's Type toggle to Exception and the day picker becomes a start and end. One form, two jobs.

The exception lands as an orange block that overrides — not deletes — the schedule.

Vacation mode

A holiday is just a long exception. Pick Vacation, sweep a date range, and it lands as a purple block. Because it has an end date, the normal week snaps back the moment you're home.

Pick the profile, sweep a range, done.

Settings

Deliberately shallow. The one thing that matters is the activity log — for a device that runs itself, it answers “why is it 27° right now?”

Light on purpose, with the activity log as the trust anchor.

What held it together

One form and one vocabulary doing double duty. Profiles name the comfort, the schedule places it in time, and a single Type toggle turns the same sheet into either the routine or the override — and every override ends on its own.