Adda
ADDa - an AI assistant
ADDa is an artificial intelligence assistant helps people with ADHD have a better working efficiency
Project Type:?
UI/UX
Keywords
ADHD, AI assistant. Desktop application
Role:?
User research, Visualization, prototyping
Self project
Guided by:
Jiasi Tan from Apple
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Project Objectives
Problem: The challenge was to help people with ADHD by monitoring and guiding their working experiences with a non-medical approach.
Methods: We conducted preliminary research, semi-structured interview, storyboarding and speed dating, prototyping, and multiple rounds of usability testing to understand their pain points and needs to inform the design process.
Solution: We employed the tool CNN in machine learning to monitor users` behavior when interacting with them in an impersonate approach to solving the design problem.
Process
02
Generative Research
Survey result
We designed a survey to gather quantitative data to objectively evaluate the difficulty of finding the problems that ADHD people facets.
65%
People would likely wander their minds when working.
70%
People could quickly lose interest in something and jump to another.
82%
People would multi-task and feel tired of it.
86%
People can focus on one thing at the beginning and soon lose attention.
Affinity Diagram
We held an interpretation session further to analyze the qualitative data from the focus group interview. We created an affinity diagram to hear about the interviews, discuss what we learned, and find congruence across our contextual inquiries.
Key Findings from the Interviews
Insight 1
Extremely distracted and would soon lose interest after inevitable inner or outside distractions.
Insight 3
They need an outside regulator and are easily distracted by screens. An audio assistant would come in handy.
Insight 5
Need a sense of time or the chunk of time a session would cost.
Insight 2
Having a distinct preference for certain kinds of work over others, we can employ some rewards to motivate them.
Insight 4
Starting from something small and simple is relevant for overcoming procrastination.
Insight 6
Motivated at the beginning of a session and prefer to switch tasks after a chunk of time.
How might we
Provide a behavior monitoring and distraction-preventing application to help the ADHDer better organize their work habits.
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Ideation
storyboards
speed-dating
Need Validation
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3
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Testing our ideas with storyboards
Based on the ideation results, we made several storyboards to conduct speed-dating interviews with our target users.
Speed dating feedbacks
#3
#5
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Iteration & Testing
Adda - a visual indicator
angel
devil
What is Adda`s persona?
5 key screens
Usability Test and Iteration 1
5-second tests
Design Flow
:
Improvements:
Interface Details
Improvements:
ADDa
Improvements:
Middle Fidelity Prototyping
experience prototyping
We reiterated our mid-fi screens based on the notes we took during the experience prototyping session. The changes are as follows:
Adda(visual indicator):
Improvements:
Interface details:
Improvements:
High Fidelity Prototyping
Test results
5-second prototyping
Design Flow:
Improvements:
Interface details:
Improvements:
Improved User Flow
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Final Design
ADDa
An artificial intelligence assistant to help people with ADHD to have a better work efficiency
Open ADDa when you finish the setting. It will start to monitor your working behavior.
ADDa will automatically monitor your behavior and give you visual feedback.
When ADDa detects your abnormal behavior or distraction from work, it will warn you.