Press
- BusinessWire: Emerson Adds Touchscreen Display and Apple HomeKit-Compatible Thermostats to Nationally Recognized Sensi Smarthome Product Line
- CNet: Use Siri to control Emerson’s latest Wi-Fi thermostat
- 9 to 5 Mac: Emerson announces two new HomeKit Sensi thermostats, one with a color shifting HD display
- MacRumors: Emerson Announces HomeKit-Compatible Sensi Thermostat With Touchscreen
- Apple Insider: Emerson Sensi thermostat line expanding with two HomeKit compatible models
- iClarified: Emerson Announces New Sensi Touch Wi-Fi Thermostat With Apple HomeKit Support
- TechHive: Sensi Touch Review – A Big Step Up From the First-Generation
- New York Times: How to Make a Smart Home
- MacRumors: Review – Emerson’s $200 Sensi Touch HomeKit Thermostat Offers a Large Color Display and Easy Setup
- Reviewed.com: Best Smart Thermostats of 2017
- MacRumors: The Best HomeKit Products You Can Buy
- New York Times: Emerson Adds Support for the Google Assistant to Award-Winning Sensi Smart Thermostat Platform
Design Process
Design Iterations
We went through quite a bit of design iterations. Here’s a sample of what hit the cutting room floor:
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My team was tasked with delivering a full user interface and interaction design treatment for the new Sensi Touch thermostat. With this came a unique set of challenges that were deftly solved through cross-functional collaboration between hardware, software, and firmware teams and the Emerson New Product Design (NPD) process.
The result is the Sensi Touch Wi-Fi Thermostat, which is available for purchase at big-box home improvement retailers 
- Affinity Mapping
- Contextual Inquiry
- Design
- Ethnographic Research
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- Interface Design
- Prototyping
- Usability Testing
