HAPPY
About
An addition to a usually stressful morning routine, Happy makes waking up fun and promises a bright start to every day!
Details
PURPOSE
Created as a project for the Delft Design Approach MOOC.
team
This was a solo project.
brief
Our goal was to create a product to help people have a better experience during their morning rituals.
Inspiration
Being a night owl, I always wake up in a bad mood when my alarm rings early in the morning. So, I started thinking about ways in which to make the waking-up process more enjoyable for me and my family, as that was voted the worst part of our morning routine. My biggest source of inspiration was that we are a family of dog lovers – our ideal way to wake up would be by a beloved house pet. This led me to think about how human beings have the tendency to pack bond with anything, whether alive or not. Thus, I thought of creating an alarm clock to simulate a pet, that would make the process of waking up more enjoyable.
Goal
To create an alarm clock that simulates a pet and allows people to bond with it emotionally, thus creating a better waking-up experience.
User study
user profile
Age 70, Female, Homemaker.
She and her husband live with her younger daughter's family, which includes her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughters. She plays a big part in the support system of the family.
Favourites
Drinking coffee
Cooking
Finishing up
Least favourites
Waking up
Cleaning the kitchen
Dusting the house
My subject’s average daily morning routine. Her favourite steps are marked pink while her least favourite are marked grey.
How might we
Allow technology to seamlessly integrate into her life, and let her experience the benefits it offers without it feeling like an uncomfortable intrusion.
Allow her to have a relaxed and enjoyable start to the day, and thus set a good tone for the rest of the day.
Improve the experience of getting through her least enjoyable moments of the morning, making her start to the day easier.
Objective
To create a product that integrates technology into its users' lives seamlessly, allows them to experience moments of joy in the midst of busy schedules and reduces the stress they face during a busy day.
Exploration
Presenting, Happy!
Happy is a little helper that assists in keeping a tab of a to-do list, getting work done on time and having a happy start to the day. Taking advantage of human tendency to feel affection towards even inanimate objects that can express emotion, this product seeks to improve people's experience while waking up and going through their routines.
Architecture
Simple and small, Happy! is engineered to wake you up every morning, give you reminders during the day and brighten your mood using the precision science of cuteness!
Learnings
User studies, challenge identification, concept generation, selection and development, rendering, material selection, detailed designing, usage diagrams.