Degree Project

User interface draft design  

Functional diagram of the main interface of the app

Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. Terada, Y., 2020.  3 Reasons Students Procrastinate—And How To Help Them Stop . [online] Edutopia. Available at: <https://www.edutopia.org/article/3-reasons-students-procrastinate-and-how-help-them-stop> [Accessed 14 October 2020].

Procrastination is a phenomenon that people have been with humans since at least the time of Cicero (Steel, 2007). The prevalence of the general population is as high as 20% to 25% (Ferrari, Díaz-Morales, O’Callaghan, Díaz & Argumedo, 2007). The prevalence of academic procrastination (that is, procrastination in learning-related activities; for example, writing semester essays, learning exams) among college students is much higher. As many as 70% of college students consider themselves procrastinators (Schouwenburg, 2004). In the book "It's about time!: the six styles of procrastination and how to overcome them", Sapadin and Maguire (1996) mentioned that there are six types of procrastination, namely the Worrier, the perfectionist, the over-doer, the crisis maker, the dreamer and the defier. The Worrier will not start this important or difficult task because they don't believe they can do it. They worry that they will not succeed. They are anxious about the idea o...

Time spent on each person’s creative step Suppose there is a design assignment, which takes 30 days Each grid represents 2 days

  WHO IS THE USER?  Marvin is 22 years old and from China, he has been studying in the UK for 4 years. Currently studying at Level 6 at Hertfordshire University in the UK. The speciality is financial management.  WHY IS HOMEWORK DELAYED?  1. Laziness, surrounding reasons, too much entertainment, attracting him to focus on homework  2. He overestimates and thinks that his learning efficiency is very high, 3. Time planning is not in place  WHAT IS HIS GOAL?  1. Want to complete the job efficiently and on time,  2. Planning time,  3. Remind him to complete his homework  4. Every time he completes a small goal, he wants a virtual reward to increase his satisfaction. With the accumulated procrastination of feeling foot, he will have a good impression. Every time I am satisfied with my homework, I don't want to delay it  5. Improve concentration, small tips, such as white noise? (I hear white noise when I can't write, but it doesn't work ...

 

 

  Chinese students are studying in the UK. (undergraduate & postgraduate). （Piers Steel, 2007）“Procrastination is extremely prevalent,” Piers Steel, a business professor at the University of Calgary, noted in a 2007 study. “Estimates indicate that 80 to 95%of college students engage in procrastination, approximately 75 % consider themselves procrastinators, and almost 50% procrastinate consistently and problematically.” A survey shows that more than 80% of college students have procrastinated, and more than 50% of students procrastinate frequently. Procrastination has become a behavioural problem that plagues students' studies. Academic procrastination is often manifested in issues such as final essay writing, exam preparation, and designated homework. A survey by the Student Psychological Counseling Center of Beijing Language and Culture University found that 100% of international students suffer from procrastination (chart below). An article (2014) in the British Guardian “Wh...

Since I went to university, procrastination has become more and more serious. It has affected my quality of life and made me feel very painful. I originally wanted to use this project to help myself solve the problem of procrastination. When I was chatting with my friends, I found that it was not only me who had such troubles. Therefore, I would like to use this project to help people who have the same problems as myself and solve the problem of homework delays. How to complete tasks while procrastination happily. The idea for this project is to design an app ‘study up’, How to complete tasks while procrastination happily’. The behavior of students to delay learning is very common (Kandemir, 2014). It is generally believed that procrastination will bring bad effects but delaying task progress may have hidden benefits for creativity (Shin & Grant, 2020). When a student is procrastinating on homework, there are often two voices fighting in his mind. On one side is hedonism, on the ot...

Case study 1 - Seed habit Keywords: mutual supervision This is a mobile application dedicated to helping everyone develop good habits and focus on learning and growth. Here, everyone’s persistence is different, but everyone wants to improve themselves. Everyone is a comrade-in-arms. It can use seed habits to check-in and supervise each other when planning to go to bed early, get up early, recite vocabulary, and do exercises. Analysis Strengths This app is something I have used before. Its advantage is that this app has a community function that can check in with other people. This function can arouse the use of some users. Weaknesses The interface function is too complicated，it let users give up the idea of using it, so my design interface should take this into consideration, as simple and clear as possible for users to use. Case study 2 - AT Keywords: countdown "You can delay, but time won't"-Benjamin Franklin.  This is a time management software. it can set the deadli...

  In the book ‘The Art of Thought’ from 1926, Graham Wallas proposed one of the first complete models of the creative process. Wallas described how it consists of the four-stage process of preparation (or saturation), incubation, illumination and verification (or implementation). This 1920s’ theory continues to be highly cited among professional design teams and in scholarly works on creativity. What happens in the four stages of creativity? Preparation Incubation Illumination Verification   When reflecting on my daily procrastination journey, I found that I spent the longest time on Incubation. I also interviewed a lot of friends at the same time, and everyone was in line with my situation. They all had the longest time in the first and second stages of the early stage. Online access Time spent on each person’s creative step Suppose there is a design assignment, which takes 30 days Each grid represents 2 days After I interviewed my target users, I found that we were ofte...