While the kiosks our sister company IQ KIOSK manufactures have always been beautiful and provided a great platform for customers to apply their branding, we’ve only just scratched the surface of what is possible given the large available surface for signage. One particularly untapped possibility is lighting.

With that simple problem (and a desire to experiment with the latest mobile development best practices), we designed and developed IQ Lights; a simple remote-controlled lighting solution to produce colourful lighting effects from a mobile device. The app runs on both iOS and Android devices and automatically detects and lists all the compatible lights on the network. Tapping a light takes you to the control screen, where you can add colours in either a repeating pattern or smoothly blended.

iOS and Android were each given a unique design to leverage that platform’s design guidelines while maintaining a clear common design language and brand across both.