This is the illustrator: https://linktr.ee/owenyeconiel

It’s cool they hired an actual person but if I was so happy with their work to write-up a whole article about it, I’d be crediting them in a much more prominent way!

The illustrator did beautiful work, it's amazing how much different your program became from the original dashboard to one simple home gui.

1. Hiring a human illustrator is the right thing to do, and I applaud this guy.

2. AI kinda ruined this style for me. The first thing I did when I saw it was start searching for AI incongruities which is sad.

I love that you hired an illustrator to make this!

Great job and a cracking write up. The notes on making sure you get layers etc right so you can animate effectively is great advice.

Thank you.

where are you based, how much you paid for it ?

appreciate you sharing the artist name!

Really well done, nice work!

this is so cool! i love it.

This is beautiful. Reminds me floor796.

I used AI to get it draw it. What worked is giving floor plan I already had and putting some labels on it - brown dining table here, fridge here, etc.

What didn't work was giving it bunch of photos and asking it to just figure it out. For things it did figure out - it was nice, but it made way too make mistakes.

The entire point of it was to put light switches and heaters on the map so I don't have to fiddle with a number of toggles in a table/list.

p.s. I wish I had huge eink display for home assistant dashboards. Some concepts I made and seen online are glorious.

Cool, but if you can afford to hire an illustrator to make a custom dashboard for your lights and thermostat, you're clearly in the 1%.

I hired an AI to do it faster and cheaper

Pro tip you don’t even need an illustrator. While I do encourage hiring humans to do this work you can also use PolyCam with a phone that supports lidar, export it to Claude with Blender and voila.