Description

Smart TV interface for remote conferencing environments

📌 Note

Confero TV is an adaptation of the core Confero Web & Desktop platform, designed for a seamless video conferencing experience on large screens.

The project was developed alongside the mobile version, optimized for iOS and Android.

🔗 Web & Desktop | 🔗 Mobile App | 🔗 Behance Case

Case Overview

Confero TV brings the power of Confero to modern conference rooms, ensuring a smooth, intuitive experience on large screens. The project focused on adapting core functionality for remote control navigation, ensuring readability from a distance, and maintaining consistency with the Web & Mobile versions.

1️⃣ Introduction

When I joined the team, Confero was already established as a Web & Desktop platform. I was actively improving it when a new challenge emerged — adapting the product for Smart TVs.

💡 Why it mattered: Modern meeting rooms rely on large screens for video calls, but simply mirroring the desktop UI wasn’t enough. Remote control navigation, screen distance, and interaction required a tailored UX approach.

🔍 Key Challenges & Insights

Challenge	Impact
Remote control navigation	Users needed intuitive, button-based navigation rather than point-and-click.
Readability from a distance	Text and key elements had to be larger and clearer for visibility.
Quick feature access	Camera, mic, and participant controls needed to be reachable instantly.

2️⃣ Research & Competitor Analysis

🧠 Research Focus:

Analyzed how users interact with Smart TV apps (including conferencing platforms).
Studied Microsoft Teams Rooms, Cisco Webex Room Devices, and Poly Studio solutions.
Defined how to adapt Confero’s logic for large screens while ensuring consistency.

Key Takeaway

TV UX requires more than resizing—it’s about rethinking interaction logic to match remote control behavior.

3️⃣ Key UX Improvements

🔹 1. Universal Dashboard

⚠️ Key Challenge

The desktop’s screen-by-screen navigation would be too slow and complex for TV users.

✅ What I Did

Created a unified dashboard that combines events, calls, and rooms in one screen.
Used horizontal carousels for intuitive remote control scrolling.
Integrated self-view and PTZ camera controls directly into the dashboard.

🏆 Result

Users can access everything from one screen with minimal clicks.

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Want to see it in action? Check out the animated prototype on my Behance case

🔹 2. Quick Actions

⚠️ Key Challenge

The desktop’s multi-step actions were too slow for remote control users.

✅ What I Did

Added direct actions to the dashboard: Call, Start Now, Join via ID.
Enabled one-click meeting launches without extra screens.
Designed floating action panels for quick contextual controls without leaving the current screen.

🏆 Result

Key actions are faster and require fewer steps, optimized for remote navigation.

🔹 3. Simplified Event Creation

⚠️ Key Challenge

The web’s freeform event creation process was cumbersome for TV users with remote control.

✅ What I Did

Built a step-by-step wizard with clear stages: Details, Date, Participants, Settings.
Added auto-saving, so users never lose progress.

🏆 Result

Event creation became intuitive and frustration-free for remote control users.

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Want to see it in action? Check out the animated prototype on my Behance case

4️⃣ Conclusion

🔹 Key Takeaways

This project taught me how to redesign complex products for remote control navigation, ensuring feature richness without overwhelming the user.

Key Achievements

✅ Mastered Smart TV UX patterns.
✅ Balanced feature depth with ease of navigation.
✅ Maintained platform consistency across Web, Mobile, and TV.

🚀 Business Impact

Expanded Confero to new environments (meeting rooms and conference halls).
Strengthened Confero’s competitive position with a true cross-platform experience.
Opened opportunities to partner with hardware vendors for integrated solutions.