Annie's project
From AZ Studio
Design & Develop
Test the best ideas through interaction with the client and finalize the final concept design.
Through the research of the last topic, I have determined my final statement on How might we apply time management properly. Then I began to discuss this statement in combination with the mind mapping I did in the last project and expressed my conceptual ideas through painting and writing.
30+ Ideas
Through discussion and research with people around me, I discovered some small problems in life and from that, I produced over 30 ideas. And some of them are presented in graphic ways.
I found that it wasn't enough for 30 ideas through the previous ideas collection. Therefore, I further detailed the previous concept idea and made the concept extension product and some details. These products are partly inspired by daily articles in daily life, and I design them more intelligently to better meet the needs of users for time management.
Top Five
Then I communicated with my clients and selected the top five ideas in their mind.
Through analysis, I finally selected the same idea that my client was interested in the more concise organisation of book items and the use of different colours to highlight the schedule. In addition, I thought that the interactive schedule chosen by my client could be combined with my idea of the interactive app, so I chose these three for detailed research and sketch drawing.
3 ideas
Then I thought about the three ideas I chose. This includes details of how these ideas should be applied to actual products and what other aspects of design these products can lead to. These sketches also laid the foundation for how I chose the final product.
Be the prototype
Next, I conducted a prototype simulation test of my product.
In this study, I will cooperate with my friend to observe her reaction when dividing tasks in daily life and completing them one by one using colour categorization. Feedback: "I used to do a lot of tasks without knowing what I should do first, even if I made a plan, I might be interrupted, but after classifying the colours, I can know exactly what I should do first. How to cut down my time so much."
To study the problem of reducing the time spent cleaning desktop items. I helped my friend clean and label her desk before she started her task. She didn't get the best feedback. She thought that even this neat tidiness would still mess things up because you don't have time to reorganize when you're busy with your work and that would lead to a mess again.
The last question is about researching my interactive software. My experiment focused on whether adding interactive rewards to a schedule would work. I went to my friend again and gave her a task schedule and told her, "I will give you 10 tokens and encouragement in your favourite game for every task you complete." This turned out to be the study with the best feedback and she did her task in the shortest amount of time.
conclusion
The final concept that I found most valuable to clients through testing was my time management software. It's much easier and more effective to stick to a boring to-do list with interactive rewards. It is also possible to change the user's time usage habits through long-term use. But the software is not comprehensive enough and many of the details are still missing.