A smart-lighting app is the only piece of the product the customer ever holds. It either feels like the brand, or it doesn’t, the design system is the only thing that keeps the answer the same across every app you ship.
Cleanlife is an IoT smart-lighting brand based in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Hardware that controls and customizes lighting; mobile + web apps that drive it. They needed a partner who could extend their global design system across multiple new mobile apps, scenes, routines, music sync, color-wheel hue control, without spinning up a full in-house design team. They came to us because of the embedded-designer model: one senior, dedicated, in your tools.
Multiple apps, one brand. The global system needed to extend cleanly across every Cleanlife mobile app, same nav primitives, same status pills, same iOS-native interactions, regardless of which feature shipped next.
Engineers shipping faster than design. Hardware teams ship on a roadmap. Design had to keep up, embedded in standups, not in a queue.
Mood-first UX on top of IoT. Customers don’t want brightness 78%. They want Goodnight. They want Disco. The surface had to lead with mood and keep the precise controls one tap away.
Denovers was excellent to work with in every aspect. Earning a complete design system from them alongside multiple mobile apps was truly seamless. Their pod stretched our brand across every smart-lighting surface we shipped without dropping a beat, same Figma, same release cadence, same quality bar as our internal team.
Cleanlife is a smart-lighting solutions brand headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The hardware controls and customizes lighting via mobile and web. They needed a partner who could extend their global design system across multiple new mobile apps without spinning up a full in-house design team. A smart-lighting app is the only piece of the product the customer ever holds; the design system is the only thing keeping the brand consistent across every new app shipped.
We assigned a dedicated embedded designer who joined daily standups, audited the existing components, added the mobile-specific primitives, and shipped feature after feature on the hardened system: scenes, routines, music sync, color-wheel hue. Mood-first IA throughout (Goodnight, Reading, Disco, Cuddle Up), with the precise controls always one tap away. CEO Muzammil stayed in the loop on every release. Multiple apps shipped on one system; verified Clutch 5.0 across every category.
Three primitives compound across every Cleanlife app: a per-bulb control surface (dimmer ring + on/off + brightness slider), a full-spectrum color-wheel hue picker with brightness/saturation, and a Custom Scene editor where users save the exact setup they just dialled in. All three stitched into the global system, same icon set, same status pills, same iOS-native behaviours. Once users could save and re-summon their own moods, time-on-screen jumped.
Customers want Goodnight, not brightness 78%. Scenes promoted to a first-class IA element, a tile grid of named pre-sets (Goodnight, Reading, Disco, Cuddle Up, Cozy Up, Sunflower, Halloween, Coffee), each with a colour-coded swatch. A Custom Scene path is one tap away on every Scenes screen with save-and-name. We treated it like the brand’s gallery, not a settings page.
Routines as a list of named rules ("When sunset", "Workout time", "It’s bedtime") instead of raw timestamps. Each binds a Mode (a Scene) to a time window + day-of-week pattern with a clean repeat option. Integrates with Cleanlife’s IoT layer underneath so the user never sees the device-level wiring. Reads like an iOS-native settings flow: clear inputs, day pills, Select-a-Mode picker handing off to Scenes.
Music sync is the surface customers show their friends. Toggle Disco and the room becomes the visualiser, lights pulse with the track, intensities follow the bass, colours shift on the beat. We designed it around a live multicolour audio waveform across the screen. Sensitivity sliders, mode selector (rotation / single / off), and a Save Customisation CTA, all reusing the design system’s primitives. Same components, different job, on-brand top to bottom.
An IoT smart-lighting brand that didn’t want a project shop. One dedicated designer, embedded in their team. Multiple mobile apps shipped on one design system; brand consistent end to end. The partnership is still running.
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