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Oleh Smieltsov
Camera view of a living room with a motion zone drawn around the couch

Motion Zones

Most motion alerts are junk — sunlight shifts, a shadow moves, your phone buzzes for nothing. Motion Zones cut the noise: you draw a box around what you actually care about — the front door, the couch the dog's not allowed on — and the camera watches only that. Everything else, it ignores.

Year
2024
My Role
Lead Designer
What I Did
Market Research
Wireframing
UI Design
Interaction Design
Prototyping

5x

Day-one engagement with smart alerts

15%

Lower churn over three months

Ideation

We sketched fast, argued in the comments, talked each other out of bad ideas and into worse ones. Almost none of it shipped, most screens looked great at midnight and dumb by morning.

Motion Zones ideation board with early sketches

Set Up

Just draw a box around what matters — the front door, the crib, the shelf the cat keeps clearing. Done, alerts come from inside the box and nowhere else.

Drawing a motion zone in the Petcube app
Motion zone covering the front door in the app
Motion Zones alerts on a phone

Voice Commands

Record a command once — "Nimbus, off" — pin it to the zone, and the camera plays it back every time he wanders in. You could be asleep, at work, on a plane, but he still hears you.

Recording a voice command for a motion zone
Cat walking away from a motion zone

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