Through ritualizing a sense of closure from work, bam empowers people to take small steps to overcome their unhealthy work-from-home habits that affect their health and lifestyles over time. By placing bam on the home work desk, it immediately reminds users to mentally and physically unwind after work by letting go of work-related worries and productivity guilt.
Under the supervision of Patrick Chia.
Storyboarding.
Explorations and prototypes.
bam’s physicality is a key feature, making it an environmental cue and every user interaction intentional.
Built-in timer provides a gradient for onboarding, setting up one’s habit into small actionable bites.
— Ranging from 1 to 15 minutes as indicated by the gentle markings,
it allows the user to set the duration of the winding down activity at the start of the work day.
This range of timing is to provide a gradient for the onboarding process because many has voiced their frustration to transit from ending work on work on time and not meditating at all to regular meditating in their attempt to develop a mindfulness meditative practice.
Lights up as a nudge for the user to switch off for the day.
This gentle glow serves as an environmental cue for him to press it and by doing so, the desktop will be frozen while a random unwinding activity will be suggested —
such as prompting one to go for a 10 minutes walk to a 2 minutes stretching exercise depending on his preset duration. However, the duration of the activity will not be explicitly stated as it is to encourage the user to engage in a longer break than what has been set.
These tips are simple mindfulness exercises for the user to take on, through which they can practice to be more mindful which helps to mediate the mental work-life transition at the end of a work day.
To ensure recognition and acknowledgement of diligence, simple appreciation quotes will also be included to evoke gratitude and profoundness, as if the work space is thanking you for your day of hard work, and bidding you to please take a good, deserving rest and leave all else behind.
