Good Night Lamp is a connected object. When a big lamp is turned on, any little lamps connected to it also turn on - no matter where they are in the world. I’ve done a few pieces of consultancy work for the GNL team, focusing both on technological implementation and designing interactions.

In 2012, I did some discovery and design work with GNL around the possible online interactions around lamps. That involved some meetings and discussion, followed by a lot of thinking and drawing. I ended up delivering a set of wireframes and interaction designs for online configuration of lamps and possible physical interactions with them.

I wrote this work up at the time over on the GNL website.

In 2016, Alex got in touch with me about building what I would come to call ‘fleet management’ software: an administration tool for the GNL team to manage lamps. This would allow the GNL team to connect and manipulate lamps themselves from a simple web-based UI - tracking their wherabouts in the world, logging notes on them, all interfacing through their connectivity partner’s API.

Even though the fleet management tools were relatively straightforward, they represented a big quality-of-life improvement for the GNL team. Slowly, we’ve replaced some regimented and careful use of shared spreadsheets with a domain-specific tool, that’s more reliable and more directly integrated with lamps themselves.

It’s hopefully a platform the company can build upon in due course - and I’m continuing to work occasionally on adding features to it. It’s also been rewarding to see early language and ideas I worked on a few years back still shaping ideas within the product.

Projects involving technology strategy

CaptionHub

Building the world's most advanced subtitling platform.

Good Night Lamp

Design and software consultancy for an IOT startup