What You Will Learn
Smart home technology is no longer limited to luxury homes or tech-savvy clients. Today, designers are increasingly expected to understand how smart home devices impact residential design, especially in kitchens, bathrooms, lighting, and entry points. This webinar provides a practical, design-focused overview of smart home devices that influence how homes function, adapt, and support the people who live in them.
Rather than focusing on installation or brand-specific systems, this session is designed to help residential designers understand what these technologies do, where they affect design decisions, and how to plan for them early in the design process. Attendees will explore common categories of smart home devices, including lighting controls, voice-activated systems, motion sensors, safety features, and touchless technologies, with a focus on how these elements intersect with layout, accessibility, aesthetics, and long-term usability.
The webinar also addresses how smart home features can support changing client needs over time, including convenience, safety, and ease of use, without compromising the overall design intent. Designers will gain insight into how thoughtful planning and coordination can reduce future retrofits, improve client satisfaction, and create spaces that are both functional and future-ready.
This session is ideal for kitchen and bath designers, residential designers, remodelers, and home professionals who want a clearer understanding of smart home technology as it relates to design, collaboration with contractors, and evolving client expectations.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common types of smart home devices that influence residential design decisions in kitchens, bathrooms, and living spaces.
- Apply basic planning strategies to integrate smart home technology into designs without compromising aesthetics or functionality.
- Recognize how smart home devices can support long-term usability, safety, and adaptability for clients over time.
Featured Presenter
Esther Kane
SEO Webmaster, Aging in Place Directory
Esther C. Kane is the founder of Aging in Place Directory Hub, a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS), and a retired occupational therapist whose career has been dedicated to helping older adults live safely, comfortably, and independently in their own homes. She blends more than 25 years of digital marketing expertise with hands-on clinical experience in senior care, a rare combination that shapes the heart and vision of the platform.
As an occupational therapist, Esther spent years inside people’s homes, evaluating fall risks, identifying safety hazards, and designing practical, personalized solutions that supported aging with dignity.
Esther created the Aging in Place Directory to solve real problems she witnessed on both sides: families desperate for reliable guidance, and professionals struggling to reach the people who needed them most.
Today, thanks to her leadership, the directory has become a nationwide hub that connects homeowners and caregivers with vetted specialists, including remodelers, CAPS contractors, occupational therapists, designers, home care agencies, and technology providers, all focused on helping people remain safely in the homes they love.
In addition to running the directory, Esther leads weekly marketing webinars, monthly mastermind sessions, and professional training programs that teach aging-in-place providers how to grow their businesses through modern marketing techniques, AI tools, and digital strategy.
CEU Requirements
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Disclaimer: This quiz will be available after the webinar airs. We only offer two opportunities to take the quiz for CEU credit.
