Weak will vs Netflix
Are you the one in control?
Description
A tool supporting the fight against addiction to watching series. The application is divided into three parts:
1. Awareness (knowledge) – articles on behavioral addictions and other related topics
2. Support (methods) – advices on how to develop useful habits
3. Activities (challenges) – set of profiled activities users can do, based on their favourite show characters; making people aware that compulsive viewing can be just as harmful, and it is worthwhile to diversify your activities
Responsibilities: year long research, content readjustment, information architecture, interface design and much more
MA diploma
Goal
Encourage students to pay attention to their approach to watching TV series and help them diversify their activities in their free time. It’s not about demonizing watching. However, moderation and self-control are important. The project is to help discover the causes of a potential addiction, ask helpful questions and indicate possibilities
Main take aways
Knowledge from over 100 books and articles read
Valuable design methods, e.g. design assumptions, hexagon, personas, user path, etc
Research is very important, even necessary, but it must not cause the lack of time to implement the visual part
