HiPhi Portable
Power Station
24 WEEKS / OUTDOOR PORTABLE BATTERY
A pioneering product in the HiPhi ecosystem lineup. It offers a compact design with a capacity of 3.6 kWh, providing dependable power for home emergencies, camping, and outdoor activities. The HiPhi Power station is the first on the market to utilize Vehicle-grade batteries, offering user power security and independence, wherever you are.
When- 2023.02
What- HiPhi Design 高合设计
Where- HiPhi, Shanghai
DESIGN PROMPT
New avenues for product innovation through battery upgrade program.
As the EV and battery pack markets evolve rapidly, EV makers provide plans for customers to upgrade their old batteries pack.
How to utilize these replaced, high energy-density, vehicle-grade batteries to enhances brand capabilities, product ecosystems, and product competitiveness become the main challenge.
“WHY?”
128
Batteries
Business Value
Brand Value
3KW/h
Each replaced 98 kWh old battery pack contains 32 battery modules.
Combine HiPhi's outdoor camping products, energy storage products, and in-vehicle products to create comprehensive ecosystem opportunities.
Product Value
Automotive grade batteries pack have higher energy density, and lighter weight.
“Summarize user insights into features”
After summarize three main user scenarios for outdoor power station, I translated those insights into the main design criteria.
Design Ideations
Brainstorming product features after understanding the user insights. Communicate with the SDE team through sketches for initial visualization.
Benchmark and Matrix
A regular round of market competitor analysis focuses primarily on form factor.
Inspiration and Benchmark
Themes and Form Development
Borrowing the power from AI generation, generates 200+ form designs in different themes.
"EdgePulse"
"MetalMint"
"CozyCharge"
Design around our SDE package
"AeroFlow"
After all, summarize those designs into 4 main themes and analyzed for design rationality.
PROTOTYPE TESTING
The design of battery products is strongly related to the ability to stack impact-resistant skeletons and modules (inverters, charging plates, MPPTs, battery packs).
Studying SDE package and Discuss solutions for mold restrictions
Proportional study with clay
Energize Your Future Hi-Sustainably.
Cozy father-daughter time
User's own Installment
Parallel Connect & Wireless Charge
HiPhi portable power are able to connect with one Extra Batteries for up to 6kWh of home backup.
Dc5521
Car Charging
AC charging cable
With two 60-watt USB-C output, the total power can reach 120 watts, compared with the common dual 100-watt USB-C output ports in the market, the power is increased by 20%;
Multiple Ports for multiple scenarios
UI Design
Considering to satisfy all user touchpoints of the product. I also provide user interface design solutions for product's display screens and mobile app.
01. Mobile UX
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Enter Page
Incorporating new features into official app
The entrance of all smart ecosystem products should be similar to Mijia, integrating car and home smart products into one entrance card. This card facilitates possibilities for the integration of future ecosystem products. I named it Hi Ecology.
Connect+ Add
Detect new device through Bluetooth
Once inside the Hi ecosystem, users are able to view connected devices. It will also automatically find devices around you that can be connected via Bluetooth.
The top right of the interface also opens up the 'Add' button for manual connection.
Charging
Better visualization with 3D & Motion
The main control page of the power station includes two states, Charging and Output, and the 3D will show different colors according to these states. These interface helps users to control each module via the app, even remotely, such as camping.
Fast Output
Color differentiation in different state
Battery Specific
Detect new device through Bluetooth
Users can click on the 3D Battery to enter the monitoring interface. This page help user understand more details of the station usage, power consumption, etc. It helps customers to prolong the life of the machine usage.
Setting
Detect new device through Bluetooth
The settings interface allows the user to control the discharge status of each module, as well as providing some quick scenario cards to response of diverse scenarios.
02. Digital Display
LAYOUT SPECIFICATION
The HiPhi Outdoor Power Station features a dot-matrix display to present product status and additional details. This screen design diverges from conventional capacitive UI designs, emphasizing on categorization and limitation, only left with essentials.
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