Room Visualizer Redesign & Feature Exploration

This project began as a design assessment exploring improvements to an existing room visualization experience.

The challenge combined two objectives:

1. Refine and improve the existing desktop experience while translating it to mobile using reusable patterns.

2. Introduce two new features:

   • A way for users to view products currently applied in their room

   • A method for launching a modular “Virtual Samples” experience directly from within the visualizer

The assignment emphasized discoverability, scalability, interaction design, and visual consistency.

This project was completed independently as a concept exploration and was not implemented in production.

Room visualization tools often balance three competing needs:

• Product discovery

• Product configuration

• Immersive visualization

As additional features are introduced, interfaces can become crowded and difficult to navigate.

The challenge was to improve clarity and hierarchy while creating space for future extensibility.

UX Goals

• Improve visual hierarchy

• Reduce interface competition with the visualizer

• Create reusable interaction patterns

• Preserve access to important actions

Product Goals

• Introduce a scalable “selected products” pattern

• Integrate Virtual Samples naturally into the browsing workflow

• Support both desktop and mobile experiences

Floating Panel System

Rather than anchoring controls directly to edges, I introduced floating containers.

This created:

• Stronger visual hierarchy

• Better separation of interaction layers

• More visual emphasis on the room itself

The second challenge was introducing a modular Virtual Samples experience.

My goal was to make it feel connected to product exploration without competing with the visualizer.

• Introduced a bottom sheet pattern on mobile to replace the desktop side panel, simplifying navigation and prioritizing touch interactions

• Prioritized contextual actions by surfacing object controls and Virtual Samples only when relevant

• Integrated Virtual Samples as a product action rather than a primary entry point

• Simplified onboarding to focus users on entering the experience before browsing

• Treated lighting states as scalable system behavior rather than fixed screens

If expanded further, I would explore:

• Filtering products that support Virtual Samples

• Persistent comparison between room view and sample view

• Multi-product room summaries

• Deeper product management flows

This project challenged me to design inside an existing system while balancing hierarchy, scalability, and immersion.

The most valuable takeaway was learning where to remove UI rather than add more of it.

I also spent significant time defining interaction ownership, ensuring that browsing, configuration, and visualization each had a clear role within the experience.