bio

A smart bedside device that combines a plant grow light, wireless charger, and alarm clock into one calm, uncluttered object

problem

The nightstand is one of the most personal spaces in a home. It's the last thing you see before you sleep and the first thing you reach for when you wake up. And for most people, it's a mess. An alarm clock that only tells time. A charger cable snaking across the surface. A plant that needs light it isn't getting. Each object doing one thing, taking up space, and adding a low level of visual noise to what should be the most restful corner of a room. The problem isn't any single item. It's that none of them were ever designed to coexist. They just accumulate.

solution

BIO answers the clutter not by removing things, but by rethinking what a single object can hold. A compact bedside device that wakes you up, charges your devices wirelessly through a built-in copper coil, and keeps your plants alive with a UV grow light that does its job without drawing attention to itself. Every feature earns its place. Nothing is there for decoration. The design process moved from sketch to scale model to user scenario, stress testing not just the form but the way someone would actually reach for it at midnight or fumble with it half asleep at seven in the morning. The result is an object that disappears into the space it occupies and quietly takes care of everything around it.

BIO is about the kind of design that doesn't announce itself. The nightstand is an intimate space, and the goal was never to add something to it. It was to give back the calm it was supposed to have all along

Throughout the process, the constraint was also the brief. How do you combine multiple functions into a single object without it feeling like a compromise or a gadget? The answer kept coming back to the same principle: every feature had to disappear into the whole. Not hidden, just quiet. The UV light isn't a spotlight. The wireless charger isn't a pad you have to find in the dark. The alarm isn't a screen competing with the ceiling at two in the morning. Each decision was about reducing, not adding.

Working through sketches and scale models forced an honesty that rendering alone never could. You have to hold something to know if it's right. The user scenarios made that even clearer, mapping out the small, half-conscious moments of a real morning routine and asking whether the object held up in each one. Reaching for your phone without looking. Watering a plant you almost forgot about. Waking up slowly instead of being startled into the day.