Meet Okyo
Making Smart Homes, Secure Homes
Okyo, by Palo Alto Networks, is a router and network security product offering advanced protections, family controls, and content filtering capabilities to protect homes with enterprise-level saftey. Okyo required a consumer-friendly and simple mobile application to interact with and manage its high-level intelligence.
Project Lead
During my time as Co-CEO of the agency Make&Model, I worked directly with product owners at Palo Alto Networks on the launch of the mobile app for their new router, Okyo Garde.
Services
UX Research - Interviews with prospective customers
Information Architecture & Feature Planning
Mobile Interaction Design & Prototyping
Visual UI Design
Discovery
Palo Alto Networks offers enterprise level security for consumers and their homes with Okyo Garde, better cybersecurity for remote work. The key features of the hardware/software package are to:
monitor security events and threats
customize network access through parental controls and monitoring
smartly recognize devices that join
automatically protect for malware, viruses, phishing and more
Feature Design
For average homeowners, security can feel complicated. The outcomes of various user research initiatives informed us that we needed to provide simple and clear security information to our users, as well as meet their needs for additional features like parental monitoring, with:
Content filtering making it easy to quickly apply best-practice filter settings for diverse ages
Scheduled WiFi downtime for pausing internet access
Granting or denying access remotely at the touch of a button
Designing for the Dark
Dark Mode
In addition to the default design system, we explored an additional dark mode, for ease of viewing data and content in scenarios of low light or nighttime use.
Visual Design
To support a data heavy product, we crafted design details that helped tell the story visually: a device iconography library, alert indicators, charts, graphs, and status rings.
