Assisting a user in selecting a lighting device design

A method for suggesting a lighting device design to a user, the method comprising the steps of:

• acquiring, by a server, user interest information relating to the user, from one or more data sources;
• acquiring, by the server, a first scene comprising data representing a first physical space, wherein said first scene is one of a set of scenes representing respective physical spaces stored in a repository;
• determining, by the server, a lighting device design related variable based on the acquired user interest information and on analysis of the data;
• providing, by the server, a first lighting device design based on the lighting device design related variable, wherein the first lighting device design is one of a set of lighting device designs stored in the repository separately from the set of scenes, and a first lighting effect, wherein the first lighting effect is one of a set of lighting effects stored in the repository separately from the set of scenes and separately from the set of lighting device designs;
• rendering a composite image of the first lighting device design by combining the first scene, the first lighting device design and the first lighting effect into the composite image;
• and
• displaying the composite image of the first lighting device design.