AGENDA

Project Description

The AGENDA is a dashboard device for notifications, displaying tasks and a calendar. The AGENDA lets you control what's important and brings it to you in one place. The motivation for this project was to safeguard the user's focus by allowing them to choose which notifications they get and when they receive them. Based on preset preferences, the user receives only the notifications relevant to them at the time.

Problem

The modern remote work lifestyle has inundated us with messages and notifications at all times of the day. Because of this, many people feel overwhelmed with the routine management of work and communications. Unfortunately, this unhealthy work-life balance discourages us from doing our best work by bombarding us with notifications and distractions.

Insights

Each notification we receive is an event that breaks our concentration and cumulatively wastes a great deal of time and resources. Moreover, handling all these notifications has become a job in and of itself. So we started to narrow in on a solution. How much easier would our work lives be if there was just one place we needed to check for anything important? Is there an opportunity to help workers take control of what notifications are important to them based on their current projects and priorities?

Solutions

Our solution was to centralize all notifications into one location. We designed a desktop device that is a dashboard for a user's productively and notification hub. This digital device contains a suite of preferences that protects the user's privacy by choosing which notifications they want to see and when to see them. This device aims to provide workers the opportunity to focus on their work for long periods with little to no notification distractions.