PANI SMART WATER METER
Conserving water by minimizing waste.
01
Concept Development
Defining the concept involved a series of meetings and workshops with stakeholders, such as the founders, mechanical, and electrical engineers.
02
Market Validation
To validate concepts developed with the team, we interviewed and surveyed representative customers to generate a definitive picture of the problem we were solving.
03
Design and Build
Both the software and hardware components began at basic wireframe levels and were refined over time into the shipping product.
End to end user experience
A unique aspect of this project was that it was not limited to software. Users are incredibly sensitive to the way they interact with smart home products and they must also integrate beautifully into the home, a challenge not present in software only products.
Kinetic Theory partnered with a long time collaborator to codevelop the industrial design to achieve the harmony required for a successful smart home product. This allowed us to make user driven decisions such as LEDs for communicating with the user as well as a step by step installation and troubleshooting guide built into the app.
From zero to product and beyond
Pani is an Austin based startup, incubated by my product design firm, Kinetic Theory.
It began with founder Allen Tsai’s vision to create the “Fitbit for water”. Like many early ideas, when we first engaged with Pani, it needed to be refined from a broad concept into an executable product. We brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, UX designers, marketers, industrial designers, and hardware and software engineers to develop the idea.
The final product design was fully executed and shipped by Kinetic Theory, from both a user experience and industrial design perspective.
