“Warnings Only When Needed” — a pollen-aware weather station for private health
Personal Health Device Study
Context
Weather stations are familiar, but they rarely translate environmental data into actionable, human-level guidance. Meanwhile, allergies/hay fever create a constant low-grade mental overhead: checking forecasts, guessing triggers, remembering medication, and reacting too late.
Design question:
What if your home environment simply told you when pollen becomes a problem — without forcing you to think about it all day?
Concept
Calm monitoring, targeted warnings
The system combines an outdoor sensor module (measuring weather + particulate/pollen-related signals) with an indoor display station that stays quiet by default.
Interaction logic (Calm UX):
•Default state: behaves like a clean, minimal weather station
•Warnings only when needed: the UI changes its main area to highlight risk states (instead of constant alerts)
•E-ink display: high readability + low energy, ideal for “always on, rarely intrusive” information
•Connected layer: Wi-Fi/app support for setup and deeper context, without pushing complexity onto the main device
Design Direction
Friendly, modular, cost-aware
The physical design is intentionally simple and approachable — aimed at mainstream households, not hobby meteorologists. The concept leans on clear geometry, easy-to-understand surfaces, and a modular architecture (housing shells, separated sensor/display units) to keep assembly and maintenance straightforward.
My Role
End-to-end concept work:
•problem framing + scenario storytelling (including a short explanatory narrative/visualization approach)
•UX principles and information hierarchy (what stays hidden vs. what gets elevated)
•interaction flow + UI states (setup, navigation, warning behavior)
•industrial design ideation, CMF, and system design (sensor + station)
•concept rendering and presentation
Why it matters
This project is basically “calm design” applied to the home: systems that monitor quietly, translate complexity into clarity, and respect attention.
It’s the same strategic muscle as in digital products: don’t make users remember things — build products that show up at the right moment, with the right message.
