Take your productivity to a new horizon

1. Take your productivity to a new horizon CONCEPT After studying the productive behaviors of students, we designed Horizon to encourage its users to become more productive by promoting these behaviors PROBLEM Many factors such as the lack of organizational skills, low incentives, and highly distractive workplaces will cause people to be unproductive Upload Tasks Plan your schedule Work Productively Reward yourself PRIMARY FEATURES & INTERFACE Eliminate distractions when working by blocking distracting applications Encourage users to reward themselves for being productive and for completing tasks Automatically manage and organize tasks by deadline and complexity DESIGN ITERATION Stage I: Sketches Stage II: Lo-fi Stage III: Med-fi Stage IV: Hi-fi Based on contextual inquiry Based on usability testing Based on task analysis Initial design Wing Lam, Danudet Boonyakamol, James Okada, Enrique Dominguez https://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/440/13wi/projects/horizon/ C S E 4 4 0 Winter 2013