Innovation Tools + Techniques
A DYNAMIC WORKFLOW CALENDAR APP THAT OPTIMIZES YOUR LIFE
Responsive. Intuitive. Habitual.
Eliminate the 9-5 grind.
This tool will help you track progress of your work. Help plan your weekly work-flow. Stay on track. Optimize your time by generating a calendar to make your working hours as effective as possible. This app programs your schedule to the hours you work best so you won’t be at work physically when you are not mentally.
App Objective:
Personal growth: learn about yourself and the way you want to work day in and day out.
By analyzing a persons unique productivity, best practices, and finding out what environments prosper good ideas this app will learn and recognize patterns in a persons working habits to see where time and process could be optimized. It will also get to know its user with questionnaires invented to specify individualisms. Additionally, it will look for areas of time wasted and suggest alternate or crossover activities for those times building the user a custom calendar.
RESEARCH: BIOMIMICRY
RESEARCH: DESIGN NEED
The Problem
A creative staring at a computer screen when the idea or creative juices just aren’t flowing is NOT productive. Everyone works at different paces and are most productive in different environments. This tool’s aim would be to help a person own their creative process by understanding the best ways they work, at what times, and in what environment. With interactive questionnaires that can hone in on what a persons unique work style and flow is.
The Solution
By analyzing a persons unique productivity, best practices, and finding out what environments prosper good ideas this app will learn and recognize patterns in a persons working habits to see where time and process could be optimized. It will also get to know its user with questionnaires invented to specify individualisms. Additionally, it will look for areas of time wasted and suggest alternate or crossover activities for those times.
Situation
This app will be accessible from any phone, computer, tablet, any digital device that is accessible on a daily basis. It will be accessible from app stores unilaterally.
Users
Inspired and created for creatives of all types, however, it will be effective for anyone with a busy, dynamic life.
Stakeholders: Workplaces & employers that want to optimize their employee ‘s time at work.
End Product
The goal will be to design the questionnaires for customization, and the user experience of the app. User interface will come last in design.
RESEARCH: WHAT ALREADY EXISTS IN THE MARKETPLACE
DEVELOPMENT: HOW DOES IT WORK
TEST DRIVE THE APP: HERE
REFLECTION
This project has been a great learning experience. Throughout the entire process, the idea has evolved into what it is today. If I were to pursue the development of this idea to fruition I can only imagine where it would end up! That is what is so exciting about innovations, the unforeseen ways they will evolve. One of the biggest challenges for this project was keeping the idea a manageable size. This app idea is still quite abstract in mind, which leads to exponential detours when I brainstorm how it would actually materialize. However, with the help of experts that lead the thought in productivity and human behavior, I think that boundaries of ideation could be more easily set. If I were to continue the development of this app, that would be my next step, finding my team. For this team I would need to step out of my current network for some areas, to find the best persons for the job. Also, funding would be my next step. Here I feel I am set up to start gaining investors because of my final project presentation.
