Project Home

The best technology knows how and when to come alive. Most of it still asks everyone to use it the same way. Project Home imagines the screen on your wall doing the opposite: adapting to whoever is standing in front of it.

There is no phone to unlock and no app to find. You walk up, raise your hand, and the home responds.

THREE WAYS IN, EQUALLY
• Gesture: hand tracking with the front camera turns your hand into a cursor. Pinch to tap, pinch and drag to scroll.
• Voice: say "Hey Home" and ask for music, the weather, a timer or the lights. Commands are understood on device by a custom language model.
• Touch: everything works with a tap, too.
None of them is the "real" one. The person with flour on their hands, the kid without a phone and the grandfather who can no longer see the screen all get in.

A FAMILY TO MEET
Project Home is told through a day in one family's life: Grandpa's birthday. Each family member needs the home in a different way, and the story walks you through every way of using it. After the story ends, the family keeps talking.

NINE APPS, ONE AMBIENT SCREEN
Music, Books, Controls, Clock, Weather, Messages, Reminders, Settings and Store, plus widgets, an always-on display that wakes when you approach, and an alarm you can silence with your voice from across the room. Every sound effect was composed for it on piano.

ACCESSIBLE FROM THE START
VoiceOver and Reduce Motion were designed in from the first screen, not added at the end.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Camera, microphone and speech are processed on your iPad. Nothing is recorded, stored or sent anywhere.

A NOTE
Project Home is an interactive experience. It does not connect to or control real smart-home devices. It was created as a 2026 Swift Student Challenge submission and is inspired by my grandfather, who went blind late in life and never managed to learn his phone.

Best experienced on an iPad in landscape, mounted or propped up at arm's length.