游戏化的时间管理app，专治拖延症。 缘起于拖延症在学生群体蔓延的现象，分析拖延行为，比较各种时间管理方法和现有的时间管理app，设计简单、有趣味又有激励性的时间管理工具。

1. Tubble
Task management app for students
Living & Behaviour
User
Analysis
Research of
Time Management
ConceptAnalysis of
Existing Products
Result

2. The starting point for the project is a new hot word.
Background：Students are suffering from Procrastination
Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things
in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline.
of students think they procrastinate
when they study.
80%
DO HOMEWORK PREPARE FOR EXAM
Although they set up a review plan to get a better grade, but they seldom study as
planned. It’s common for them to cram all night for tomorrow's exams. Finally, owing
to inadequate exam preparation, the score is not ideal,making students depressed.
Situations of Procrastination
Tasks at hand
Time available
Way to do things

3. Why students procrastinate on their study ?
Time is abundant. They think of the process of
accomplishing the task is
boring.
Habitual distraction is common
in the process of doing things.
Laziness，low willpower.

4. Clear goal.
high study efficiency.
Stressful, going crazy.
Ideal State
Actual State
Have a clear goal and know how to achieve it.
High task completeness Good time arrangement
Motivated, energetic, high work efficiency.
A good mental state, can work happily and
relaxedly every day.
Low task completeness
Blind, be at loose ends.
Spiritless, too lazy to
start working, delay.
Feel good, stress-free,
confident.
Spend most of the time
on their hobby or what
they are interested in,
and have less time to
work.
8 hours everyday for normal work and
needful rest respectively, and the rest
of time can be arranged according to
the individual situation.
Low task completeness
Fuzzy goal.
Slow progress, lack of
motivation,low efficiency.
A sense of guilt and crisis.
Spend more time on
studying, but delay
because of lack of
enthusiasm.
High task completenessTake the time of
needful rest to
complete the task.
needful rest (sleep)
flexible time
work time
start deadline

5. How to adjust students to ideal state?
Make a plan to do different
tasks at specific times.
Plan Flexibility
Easy to adjust the plan to deal
with the unexpected.
Motivation
Set a deadline, creating a sense
of crisis and being a sort of motive
force.
Make sure that goals are achievable,
and never put off today's work till
tomorrow
Interest
Communicate to obtaine praise
and encouragement from others.
Review past experience and
progress.

6. Collect Organize Just do it
Review
collect all of the information
that is bouncing around in
your head by getting it out
of your mind.
determine the next
action and form a
project.
use your task list to
determine what you
should be working
on.
Process
take all of the information
that you have collected and
process it into actionable
pieces with clear next steps.
Inspect regularly,
review your actions
and list.
1h
25
min
5
min
work
25
min
timing
decide
5
min
rest
Urgent
Do Plan
1 2
Important tasks you have to
do them now.
Delegate
Tasks to delegate. Not value
added tasks.
Eliminate
3 4
Tasks eliminate or they will
become 3.
Tasks you have to plan or
they will be come urgent.
Not Urgent
ImportantNotImportant
The Pomodoro Technique is a time
management method developed by
Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s.
The technique uses a timer to break
down work into intervals traditionally
25 minutes in length, separated by
short breaks.
The Pomodoro Technique
Decide on the task to be done;
Set the pomodoro timer to n minutes
(traditionally 25);
Work on the task until the timer rings;
Take a short break (3–5 minutes);
After four pomodori, take a longer
break (15–30 minutes).
Time Management Systems
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a method for organizing tasks so that you can focus your entire
energy and creativity on completing those tasks in a stress free manner.
Getting Things Done
Using the Eisenhower Decision Principle, all tasks are evaluated
using the criteria important/unimportant and urgent/not urgent, and
then placed in according quadrants in an Eisenhower Matrix
Eisenhower Decision Principle
Record daily work, especially the most important thing in your life,
and complete them according to the order of priority. Record what
makes you happy and excited, and confirm the positive changes.
In order to realize the scientific, reasonable and efficient planning of
work, I decided to research the systems of time management, so I
can learn from these methods and use them to my design.
Diary of success

7. Emphases of time management systems
Flow of Time Clear ClassificationResult of Tasks Sensible Arrangement

8. Existing Products
Weakness:
Focus on the record the result of tasks, rather than
the agenda management.
Orderliness is weak, especially after recording a
large amount of information.
Any Do
based on GTD.
Key benefits: Speech recognition, Gesture support .
Weakness:
Because of its simplicity, beginners may not know
what course to take.
Users may lose interest and abandon it after a
period of time.
Long to-do list makes users stressed.
Google Keep
Notes and lists, based on diary of success.
Key benefits: Location-based reminder, Color code
notes to quickly organize .
Pomotodo
based on Pomodoro Technique and GTD.
Key benefits: Set a timer, Record history.
Weakness:
Efficient but boring, making users fatigued and
stressed.
A task is often interrupted, making a pomo timer
invalid.
Timing reduce flexibility of completing tasks and
may interrupte users’ train of thought.
Simple
Interesting
Flexible
Organized
Motivated
Simple
Interesting
Flexible
Organized
Motivated
Simple
Interesting
Flexible
Organized
Motivated

9. Insight : Aspects to be further improved
Easy to use, shorten the time
of editing and arranging the
tasks.
Simple Interesting
Not a list, but a game, making
users less stressed.
Motivated
Improve work efficiency.
Flexible
Make the arrangement more
practical and easy to adjust
according to actual situation.

10. Make products more attractive
and maintain user’s interest.
Create a relaxed atmosphere,
adopt an stress-less manner.
Fun
Game-like Interaction
Concept
Motivated
Connect with Friends
Users encourage each other
and would be more motivated
to complete the task.
Set a trend in circle of friends,
beneficial for product promotion.
Deadline
Form a sense of crisis, urging
users to complete the current
task quickly.
Plan and organize properly.
Simple
Easy to use, shorten the time
of task editing
Make using progress relaxing
and less complicated.
Simplify Task Editing

11. Ordinary tasks
Can be completed within
a short period of time,
such as buying a book.
Need a longer period
of time, such as doing
homework.
Just do it
A brief introduction
of what to do today.
A general idea
Add a new task.
Add Check
Details
Continuous tasks
Pomotimer
Start
A new day begins.
Detailed description
of the tasks.
Check existing tasks
which haven’t finished
yet.
Category
Deadline
Name
Important
Ordinary
Urgent!
Rest
5min
Work
25min
Different sorts of
tasks,different ways
to handle.
Select
Today’s schedule
ends.
Summarize what
you have done
today.
Have a good sleep!
Rest
Done
Evaluation
Post on social networking
sites for permanent record
and sharing with firends.
Publish

12. 10TASKS
Task Interface Pomodoro Interface
TASK
COMPLETION
78%
Evaluation Interface
USER
Twitter
Facebook
TIMER
Pomodoro duration
25
5
Break duration
Setting Interface

13. Fun
Bubble blast
These task management App isn’t similiar to tradional list-like schedule, but a game of bursting the
bubbles. The bubble represents the tasks you should complete. Tap the screen, break up big bubble
and burst smaller bubbles. These process means to seperate your goal into several small tasks, and
complete the tasks one by one to achieve your final goal.
Not a list, but a game
Change task category
Bubble disappear when change category
The life course of a bubble
Creat a bubble.
Add a new task.
A bubble bursts.
a task is complete.
10TASKS
Reading
Regular
Meeting
Group
Study
Sketching
Reading
Regular
Meeting
Group
Study
Sketching
Regular
meeting
Regular
meeting

14. Motivated
Color and motion state of bubbles will change with time, so the tasks
close to their deadline would be more obvious. To be more precise,
the color would be redder and redder and beat faster and faster. In
the end, they will beat like the rhythm of heart, which creates a sense
of tension, forcing the user to complete the task.
To complete the task
Urgent
close to the deadline
Tap to change the state
Evaluate today
PK your friends
Time
Sketching
Sketching
normal color
float slowly
Sketching
Sketching
turn red slowly
jump
red
like heatbeat
Sketching
TASK
COMPLETION
78%
YOU BEAT 96% OF YOUR FRIENDS!
2
TASK
COMPLETION
30%
20
Calculate task completion, and compare it with friends. If users completes the top 10 in their
circle of friends, they will receive a trophy as a sort of encouragement. Otherwise they can merely
get a small medal. Users can also share their grade with their friends and record them through
social networking sites which they already connect.
working state
task interface
rest state
evaluation interface

15. 18: 41 Time’s Up
Sketching Reading
Group
Study
Drag to Record
Sketching
Reading
Group
Study
Finish?
Sketching
Have a Break
3:24
Students may spend a long time on one task,
such as spending two hours to review the lessons.
However, if they keep doing these during that time,
finally we would get tired and can’t concentrated,
leading to decrease of learning efficiency. But if we
split our time, set goals and rest properly, task
completion will improve a lot.
Thus I introduce pomodoro technique to my design.
Pomotimer
for continuous tasks

16. Clear task definition
Discribe the task in two aspects, content and time, in order to clear what to do and when to finish.
Easy and intersting to operate
Special gestures add more fun to use the app.
Succinct and clear interface
Simple
Save time of task organizing progress
Change priority —— bigger in size
ordinary taskmagnify important task
Drag to record
Sketching
Reading
Group
Study
Sketching
Reading
Group
Study
Category
Violin
Practice an hour.
Deadline
Deadline
Sep. 26
Task
Note
Name & note
What to do
Note.
Drag to show tab bar