Context

My primary inspiration behind my idea was the connotation of colors in relation to temperature. Typically when temperature is described, red correlates with heat and blue correlates with cold. When it is hot we typically try to cool down and when it is cold we try to warm up. Since I was focusing on the on/off modes of a fan, I mapped heat to a fan being on (trying to cool down) and cold to a fan being off (trying to warm up). Thus, I came to my final idea of mapping red colors to a fan being turned on and blue colors to a fan being turned off.

In the bigger picture, a color identifying your current state and acting upon it has some spooky properties. Imagine if a user could input how warm they were feeling at a given moment and the fan could determine the right speed to set to by mapping the user input to a color. Being able to curate the perfect cooling speed is indeed a spooky concept.