a portfolio case study for CS247B: Design for Behavior Change — Project background Team (refresh!) Over the course of 10 weeks (January to March 2021), I worked on this project — and became friends — with Isha Kumar, Jenny Han, and Katherine Gjertsen. Our goal At the start of the quarter, we were tasked with one goal: identify a behavior to change, and design a solution to…

site-mapping, task flows, and sketchy screens — Site-mapping our way to convergence and clarity In discussing how we might combine our individual wireflows to converge on a concept for our overall application, we created this site map to clarify the various user interactions we currently expect. Our app’s functionality: serviceable tasks Before divvying up tasks, we outlined the following core actions to decide how we might divide and…

Background: design decisions so far We’ve learned the 3 core ingredients to changing behavior and creating a new habit: 1) ability 2) motivation and 3) trigger. Given that “ability” factors are largely out of our control (e.g., …

Learnings from Gestalt psychology and principles of visual perception — Introduction What are “Gestalt principles”? Gestalt is a German word which roughly translates to “shape” or “form,” but is better interpreted as “pattern” or “configuration of individual things” in the context of Gestalt design principles. …

Conducting secondary research and product analysis of comparators — Introduction We’re Team refresh, and our mission this quarter is to design a tool that encourages young adults to go outside and get fresh air more often. With this goal in mind, we set out (no pun intended) to explore the existing solution space via a literature review and comparative analysis. General secondary research findings

CS247B Design for Behavior Change: Measuring Me, take 2 To be honest, I think I have a lot of bad habits. It was initially difficult for me to choose one — some bad habits I felt were perhaps “inappropriate” for a classroom setting, and others, truthfully, I didn’t know if…