Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Goes to Smart Center TV Application by Vestel UX and UI Design Group
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 confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category for Smart Center TV Application by Vestel UX and UI Design Group, designed for Vestel UX/UI Design Group. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
About Smart Center TV Application
Smart Center is a mobile application that remotely controls Wi-Fi enabled Vestel smart televisions. The application shows broadcast schedules and detailed program information. Users can record programs to watch later, set reminders and share mobile content on the television screen. Voice control, channel list creation and media mirroring between phone and television are also included. Features are grouped into a main menu, remote control, television guide, applications and settings. A dark interface and a grid layout reduce eye strain and support easy reading.
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 4 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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. The competition 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. Entries typically include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. Awarded interface designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interface
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/121063
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/121063
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!121063
- 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
- Smart Center TV Application
- Function
- TV Application
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- White, Black, Dark Slate Gray, Lavender and Gray
- 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
- #121063
Credits
- Team
- İlayda Yesilova, Cemre Fidan Tuzun, Sultan Sel, Vestel UX/UI Design Group and Userspots
- 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
- Smart Center mobile app provides users to control remotely connected WiFi-enabled, smart Vestel televisions. With the help of Smart Center, information about program broadcasting and program details are always at hand. Users can also record broadcast programs to watch later, set reminders for programs, and share content on their mobile phones with their TVs. Users will be able to follow their TV routines and favorite channels & programs and more easily while they are controlling their TVs.
- Inspiration
- Vestel Smart Center is an easy-to-use remote controller mobile application developed for Vestel Smart televisions. Standard remote controls are very limited for controlling a TV. that has various smart features. This causes deficiencies in the interaction between users and TVs. SmartCenter mobile app is designed and developed for improving this interaction. In addition to basic remote control features SmartCenter offers voice control, creating channel list, mirroring media between phone and TV.
- Research
- The dark interface is designed for a comfortable use that will not be tiring for the user while controlling the TV. Since the remote control feature is similar to the generic control elements and aspects universal, standard rules, the user can easily and intuitively control their television. The grid structured layout of SmartCenter provides user to follow TV guide and view program details easily while strengthening eye tracking.
- Challenge
- 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.
- Realization and Technology
- Application is available on the market for both iOS and Android users.
- Operation and Interaction
- Smart Center has an easy-to-understand and usable UX and UI design, and information architecture. SmartCenter gathers relevant features under different gorups such as Main Menu which includes primetime programs and their details, Remote Control, TV Guide, Applications and Settings. All these menus meet different needs of TV users. Users can remotely turn on/off and control their connected TVs by Remote Control feature. It also offers program suggestions to the user according to previous choices.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2019 in Manisa.
- Specifications
- The application is designed for all Android and iOS smart phone sizes.
- Keywords
- Smart TV., remote control, program recommendations, program guide
