{"id":147,"date":"2018-03-25T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/?p=147"},"modified":"2018-06-14T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:05:55","slug":"app-spirational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/app-spirational\/","title":{"rendered":"App-spirational"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a student and active volunteer at Annex Theatre<\/a>\u00a0as well as someone who is exploring the field of web design and consultation, I have been tracking my time spent as well as mood to get an accurate\u00a0reflection of how well I am spending my time. After about 6 months of tracking, when people ask, \u201cAbout how many hours do you spend at Annex?\u201d I can now answer that is on average 20 hours\/week. Actively inputting my hours into a form each day has also increased my outlook as to how I choose to spend my time. Since tracking, I now set aside time to go to the gym or engage in relaxing downtime activities, since I’m fully aware of how much time I put into \u201cworking\u201d that day.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also included a quick feedback section in my protoype form that enabled me to reflect on how I felt about how I spent my time. The idea sprang from wanting to get data-based feedback about how I truly felt after time spent volunteering or working a specific client, as opposed to the general feeling of stress and malaise that I was experiencing. I chose 3 levels of reaction to every event: empowered, neutral, and defeated. My hope is to see overall trends and use this information to make change as well.<\/p>\n

I’d like to share my technique with others who are interested in tracking time to make improvements. For WEB 202<\/a> at Seattle Central<\/a> with Kathy Gill<\/a>, I discovered how to make this idea more useful for myself and potentially others. For the course I researched potential users<\/a> of a time tracking app by creating personas, read about other similar products<\/a> in order to design my differently, and design the navigation, look, and feel of an app from start to finish<\/a>. From the perspective of learning UX design, I achieved what I set out to do: successfully explore and research potential interactions and design a time tracking app.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a student and active volunteer at Annex Theatre\u00a0as well as someone who is exploring the field of web design and consultation, I have been tracking my time spent as well as mood to get an accurate\u00a0reflection of how well I am spending my time. After about 6 months of tracking, when people ask, \u201cAbout… Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-ux-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growlingwillow.com\/web170\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}