P.
04
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Product design
Kiln OS
Firing software for 3,000 independent studios.
Client
Kiln
Year
2024
Discipline
Product design
Studio
Montréal
Direction
Amélie Tremblay
Disciplines
Digital · Identity · Technology
Fig.
04
.01 — Key frame
Kiln
,
2024
F.002 — Brief
Kiln builds the controllers that independent ceramic studios use to fire their work. The hardware was trusted; the software felt like a thermostat from another decade, and a bad firing can cost a potter a month of work.
F.003 — The interval
Dial
→
Curve
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State A — DialState B — CurveWe designed the product around the firing curve itself. Temperature over time became the primary interface: draw the curve, and the software turns it into a schedule the kiln can follow.
Everything else steps back. Alerts are rare and specific, and the screen you see at three in the morning is designed to be read half-asleep.
Drag the playhead — first frame left, final frame right.
F.004 — Frames
Drag or scroll sideways · 04 frames
F.04.02
Firing curve, cone 6
F.04.03
Controller, night mode
F.04.04
Studio map, density
F.04.05
Type specimen, labels
F.005 — Outcome
A product system, from controller screen to phone, that turned the most anxious hours of a potter’s week into a quiet, legible process.
“The work didn’t just look different. It changed how our whole team talks about the product.”
Mara Lindqvist
/
Chief Product Officer, Kiln
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2024
F.006 — Next frame · P.
05
Murmur
Creative technology
2023
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