Today there are millions of different applications and software to manage and track one's habits, some more engaging than others. Traveler's idea is to combine the user experience of a video game with an application, making our "to-do lists" something concretely "heavy". In fact, our to-do lists and task lists will be items that weigh down our character.
The concept is to create a simple user experience but one that pushes with some details to performing as many things to do as possible.
In the foreground we have a character, it is equipped with
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A backpack, which represents the list of things we could and would do and future tasks, as the list increases the backpack will become increasingly "heavy."
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Items in hand, represent the list of things to be done TODAY, however, if I fail to accomplish everything by the end of the day these things will add up on the next day's list creating additional weight.
The weight is very important because our character will respond to the excessive load, not only textually but also visually, as our character will show fatigue when we have too many things we should and would like to do but have not yet accomplished. This character is the point of the idea, as if representing the weight of the tasks we are accumulating. Nothing is left to chance, as are the messages that tell us ail our character indicating his state of mind and tiredness."
The other details that serve to stimulate the user are the timers, above the character is placed a clock that shows the time, but not only that, it also shows the hours until the end of the day to show the very time the user has left to complete the day's list.
As seen in the prototype it does not present many functions, because the focus is on solving the task, I personally find app or software that are overly full of functions to be confusing or lead to distraction for those who are more " techies."
In fact you can add a title and add tasks, on the right will be stored (as far as Backpack is concerned) the day of creation.
At the top we have the titles to create task categories and below all are the tasks performed, important to note that next to each category is indicated the number of tasks there are, this is useful regarding very long lists.
I can't quite hide the fact that I would love to see this project become a reality!
Tommaso