wRetro
A website you can play with: tap the app or remote on screen and watch the lights, fan, TV and AC switch on in a virtual room.
- Industry
- Smart home / Electrical
- Platform
- Custom PHP
- Client
- wRetro
Interactive designFront-end buildCodeIgniter build
(the challenge)
Smart switches are easier to show than to explain.
Most visitors had never used a modular smart switch. Text made the idea sound complicated; a photo couldn't show what controlling a room from a phone feels like.
(the approach)
Put a working demo on the first screen.
Visitors control a virtual living room through an on-screen wRetro app — lights glow, the fan spins, the TV and AC turn on — or switch to the remote and try its scene buttons. The rest of the site, built on CodeIgniter, introduces the range.
What was delivered
- Virtual living room demo
- On-screen app that switches each appliance
- One-tap All On and All Off
- Toggle between app and remote
- Remote scene buttons for home and away
- Runs on CodeIgniter (PHP) with jQuery
