POETRY X DAILY ROUTINE
Timeline: Jan 2023 – Apr 2023 (4 mos)
Role: Designer
RHYME is a multi sensory system that helps users create and maintain healthy routines. Even more so to perceive time through routine processes and senses instead of number readings. The products serve as lighthouses that guide users through routines, and the interactions as if collecting timestamps of sensations.
“The art of living is the art of learning to savor the simple pleasures of everyday routine.” - Eugene Walter
1: Bedroom: light-based alarm clock
2: Bathroom: candle warmer
3: Doorway: tray holder
Research
Started with learning that blaring alarm clock hinder our sleep quality and health, I found out that the bigger issue is the general lack of poetry in the products and how we interact with them.
Combined with the initial focus of tailoring to our biological nature, the poetry in doing things the natural way is the connection we feel with the world around us. When we appreciate it and work with it rather than against it, we can experience a sense of harmony and reassurance.
Form Studies
Along with sketches, sketch models helped me determine the direction where aesthetics and UX would both benefit from. Testers said that the master key was too rigid and meticulous to use when having to fit pegs through holes. Something like a totem would be more enjoyable.
