Whirlpool Connected All-In-One Washer & Dryer

Overview

Whirlpool’s Connected Washer-Dryer combo eliminates the need to switch your laundry. Reinvent your laundry routine with a washer and dryer in one appliance. Innovative features on the Smart All-In-One Washer & Dryer help you do laundry in fewer steps. This appliance can wash and dry a 6-lb load in less than 3 hours 40 minutes, and features settings such as Regular/Quick Wash cycle, Extra Fast spin speed, and Extra Dry.

My Role

I was responsible for designing the user interface on the Whirlpool app that safely controls the machine (not the physical UI of the machine), creating interactive prototypes, ensuring the experience was consistent across other Whirlpool connected products, overseeing and approving international software development of UI/UX visuals, ensuring the technical and interactive solution supported the digital experience requirements, and providing design recommendations based on digital experience audit results. Available to purchase on the market at Lowe’s, Home Depot, Bekkins, and Menard’s.

To acknowledge and celebrate the cross-functional teams that I worked with: controlling the range operates within the Whirlpool app and was completed in wonderful collaboration with the incredibly hard work and passion of hundreds of engineers, developers, and teams of designers of every concentration. My everyday work with this project couldn't have been done without the knowledge transfers of the on-appliance designers Megan Clayton and her team, members of my team Melanie Riley, Kevin Maenle, Brennan Martin, Shantanu Dhond and his team in Pune, India, and my hilarious manager, Richard Hughes. 

Press

• Consumer Reports | “Smart Washer Innovations Tackle Everyday Laundry Woes”

• CNET | “Whirlpool's smart washer/dryer hybrid now works with Alexa”

• Engadget |”Whirlpool plugs Alexa and Google Assistant into its appliances”

Awards

• CES 2017 | Innovation Award Honoree (Home Appliance Category)