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Vestel UX and UI Design Group Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Vestel Evin Akli Smart Home Mobile Application in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
Vestel UX and UI Design Group recognized for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Vestel Evin Akli Smart Home Mobile Application by Vestel UX and UI Design Group, designed for Vestel UX/UI Design Group, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Vestel Evin Akli Smart Home Mobile Application
Evin Akli is a mobile and television application for controlling and monitoring connected home appliances remotely. The interface and experience design are consistent across device groups, so users learn to control newly added appliances quickly. The flexible software architecture allows new devices, functions and features to be added over time. Functions such as remote control, an assistant, user scenarios and electricity consumption tracking are included. All features are compatible with voiceover and talkback for visually impaired users.
About Vestel UX and UI Design Group
Vestel User Experience Group consists of user experience designers and visual communication designers. The group works under the Vestel which is a Turkish home and professional appliances manufacturing company. Vestel UX belongs to Electronics department and creates projects with IOT groups. UX group projects include mobile and TV applications & interfaces that work with Vestel devices such as smart home devices, smart watch, electric vehicle and battery.
Award Record
With this recognition, Vestel UX and UI Design Group is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Award
The A' Interface Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good user interface designs by the best UI/UX designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interface designers, interaction designers, user experience designers and digital product designers from all countries. Typical entries include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. The awarded interface designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interface
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/120915
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120915
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120915
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/292840
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.vestel.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Vestel Evin Akli Smart Home Mobile Application
- Function
- Smart Home Mobile Application
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Light Sea Green, Dark Turquoise, Dark Cyan, White Smoke and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Vestel UX/UI Design Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Vestel UX and UI Design Group
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120915
Credits
- Team
- Can Erkman, Cemre Fidan Tuzun, Sezgi Kaya, Sultan Sel and Vestel UX/UI Design Group
- Image Credits
- Main; Vestel UX/UI Design Group,Vestel Optional; Vestel UX/UI Design Group,Vestel Video: Vestel UX/UI Design Group,Vestel PDF: Vestel UX/UI Design Group,Vestel
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Evin Akli which is a mobile application and TV. application developed for users to control and monitor their connected home appliances remotely anytime. Thanks to the similarly designed interface and experience design, learning to use and control the newly added devices takes short time for users. Architecture of Evin Akli mobile app supports to add new devices, functions and features with its flexible structure open to development.
- Inspiration
- Thanks to Evin Akli's meticulously created, flexible software and design architecture, the application easily adapts to new devices and features that will be added. Users can also track their electricity consumption levels. The user’s existing device is kept available to development with the new features and programs that will be added to the application. At the same time, all features are made available to the usage of visually impaired users with voiceover and talkback compatibility.
- Research
- Vestel UX Group do user researches and A/B testing according to appropriate user group for defining exact user needs and related project guidelines. UX Group, after creating user journey maps, combines them with suitable interfaces for create better user experiences for Vestel smart device’s users. While designing these interfaces, user research insights, emotional impacts, usage scenarios, various design architecture systems and actual design trends are considered.
- Challenge
- Evin Akli mobile application's interface is designed with the aim of easy understandable usage while considering Vestel smart devices' design style and today's aesthetic values. Control and configuration screens which are separately designed for each device group, provide user experience with simple and coherent visual architecture.
- Realization and Technology
- App is available on the market for both iOS and Android users.
- Operation and Interaction
- Evin Akli application has an easily understandable and usable UX / UI design and information architecture. Thanks to the application, remote commands can be given to the devices and the status of the devices can be learned. It provides convenience to the customer with its specialized functions such as Remote Control, Assistant, User Scenarios, and Easybill. Consistent UI and information architecture results in unified UX and enables users to control devices intuitively.
- Project Duration and Location
- The Project started in 2018 in Manisa, realized in 2019 and still being developed.
- Specifications
- The application is designed for all Android, iOS smart phone sizes and 16: 9 and wider Smart TVs.
- Keywords
- smart home, home appliances, technology, smart devices, mobile application, smart tv app, remote control, remote monitoring
