Checkpoint 4

Prototype Testing

2024-04-11 (Kitty, Fina student, year 2)

Do you declare yourself as a student with a want to improve
1. Yes
Why do you feel unmotivated when studying?
1. No answer, cannot think
Are you sure?
1. Cannot solve math questions
2. Cannot estimate the time spend on a task
What have you did to build a good study habit?
1. Notion
2. Tomato Timer
3. TODO list
4. Read article (content farm)
5. Block YouTube / entertainment software (distractions)
6. Give myself reward/objective
Introduce the POV

What worked
- I think I will use 2 days only
- Auto planner (if can implement)
  - no need use too much time to waste time to write schedule
What didn’t
- Clock can pause, stopped then won’t resume, might not really work
- Maybe too plain
- If really extreme user, might not find it helpful
New questions
- How to determine the deadline of task
- Self plan vs auto plan
- For extreme user, should need to boost their productivity
- Might be too functional, somehow make it simpler
New ideas
- Notification
- Make the ui more attractive
  - most people will use because it’s good looking
- What you achieved in this week
- Plant tree (same as that app)
- Random selection of task (lucky wheel)
- Maximum stop the clock x time, based on duration
  - maybe like 1 hour 1 pause
  - Maximum pause duration (15min/30min)

Tutorial

Storyboard

User
Interaction point
Environment
Activity

The main point of a storyboard is to show the user’s intention, and how he/she interact with a product

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Problem of solving motivation
Flexbility
Penality vs reward
A rigid system
Hard vs Dynamic deadline

The Ultimate Problem

Why will students follow the guideline
- Reward
  - X Cash
  - Human behaviors
  - Sense of achievement
    - Tackle the need of students
    - Make it addictive?
- No Punishment

Definition of Habits

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

What are the 4 laws of atomic habits? How can following these laws help you build new, positive habits?

The 4 laws of atomic habits are a simple set of rules we can use to establish new habits: 1) make it obvious, 2) make it attractive, 3) make it easy, and 4) make it satisfying. Think of these laws as a framework for designing each stage for optimal habit formation. To break bad habits, simply invert the laws from positive to negative.

Keep reading to learn about the 4 laws of atomic habits.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/myth-21-days-truth-habit-creation-joris-beerda-frsa/

TODO

What is habit
Maybe some survey
Try it out ourselves (Airbnb example)
Next Lessons
- Finalize POV
- Finalize solution (detailed)
- Quick prototype
  - Testing, require survey, etc
  - Iteration
  - Documentation

1st week
1.
2nd week
3rd week

Idea

Deposit money

I don't think he want ppt engineering tho, he probably want something that works (at least to some extend), or another approch is make something that is both hardware and software

I discussed with John Chan and think one of the main focus (or starting point) could be some sort of TODO list. 

If we think about it, a TODO list bascially consist of 2 stages:

writing the todos
implementing the todo 

where both of them require some sort of motivation 

we could automate the first one for the user, i.e. breaking down tasks

for the second one, it is where most people would lost track and gave up doing what they wrote down to do

I propose that we could focus on here and think of some way to make the user motivated enough to actually finish the TODO list

Then we solve the problems defined in our POV, i.e. motivation as well as time management


Edited:

some ideas that are perhaps viable include:
1.⁠ ⁠a physcial todo list for any study space (require the user to finish the task before leaving) (resonating with C3's idea 3)
2.⁠ ⁠⁠physcial phone lock with todo list (have to think about emergency situations where the user need access to phone) (suggested by John)
3.⁠ ⁠⁠reward based solution

Also keep in mind that our goal is to make the user motivated, otherwise our POV can't be solved

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