Abstract

Today, people encounter many arduous tasks every day. Heavy work tasks and tedious tasks always remind people, tormenting people who work hard to live. Life is busy, and there are many things to do every day. Without to-do lists to help us organize the tasks we need to get done each day, our lives would be a mess. Not only that, but unplanned tasks can also trigger procrastination. According to a survey, more than 40% of people suffer from procrastination. Procrastination affects the lives of many people, causing them to be inefficient and waste a lot of time. The central theme of my thesis project is to build an interactive lists to-do system. Help people organize and handle tasks in daily life more quickly and interestingly. Making the tasks to-do list more interesting can promote people's work efficiency and let this system help people develop the habit of planning time and tasks reasonably. The development of "Busy World" was a UI/UX design exploration. I tried to innovate how users interact with to-do lists by integrating to-do lists with game elements, which is a bold attempt. When I was designing, I not only considered the practicality of this product as a to-do list, but it was also a design exploration that combined productivity products with games. When I designed Busy World, I hoped that users could combine productivity with games, find an intersection between the two, explore the possibility of breaking the traditional to-do list, and use games to enhance users' use of to-do lists. Use experience, and this creative path is intended to discover potential integrations.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Time management--Interactive multimedia--Design; Decision making--Interactive multimedia--Design; User interfaces (Computer systems)--Design; Three-dimensional display systems--Design; Mobile apps--Design

Publication Date

4-28-2024

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Visual Communication Design (MFA)

Department, Program, or Center

Visual Communications Studies

College

College of Art and Design

Advisor

Mike Strobert

Advisor/Committee Member

Adam Smith

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Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

VISCOM-MFA

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