1. Brief
“Personal Spaces; These coulds be anything from whats in your bag to your bathroom.”
In this project, the topic I choose is Personal Space. According to the requirements of the project, I chose to record the time I spent using various APPs in a week.
2. Why？
In daily life, all kinds of electronic products occupy our lives. We can use these electronic products with various apps. In this age of entertainment to death, entertainment apps and social apps are flooding the lives of young people. Especially the popularity of tik tok, occupying every inch of life like a virus.
Therefore, I want to record the length of time I use various apps in a week to analyze what is really meaningful to me and what is not.
3.Data Record
I divide the various apps I use into three different categories: “social media”, “creative”, and “others”. And I use three different colour labels on my blackboard to mark how often I use the three categories of apps in a day. In addition, I used a fixed camera to record my data collection process.
Social Media: Tik Tok; Wechat; The red book；Weibo；Instagram
Creative: Pinterest; bilibili(veido); Camera; Photo Album; Snapseed(Edit picture)
Others: Amazon(shopping); Alibaba(shopping); Selfridge(shopping); Deliveroo(food); HungryPanda(food)
At the same time, I used excel to record the detailed usage time of various apps.
4. Data Analysis
After collecting the data, all kinds of data were sorted and analyzed.
According to the analysis results, in my week of life, the app that occupies most of my time is tik tok, which lasts as long as 32h20m.
Therefore, in the next presentation of the results, I chose the three representative colors of tik tok as the main colors of my final effect.
5. Draft
Solution 1: I choose to visualize my various data, use rich colors to represent the value and range of different data, and make the data into a brochure to explain the process of my project.
Soution 2: Make two posters. One poster shows the boring life engulfed by apps, and the other shows the interesting life after giving up using meaningless apps.
After communicating with my friends about the final result, they said that they could clearly know the thought content I wanted to express, and I got suggestions for improvement of the visual content.
6. Final Results
Solution 1: Instruction Manual
The front cover shows the meaningless life surrounded by APPs with a black and white clenched fist. The middle content is a seven-day data introduction. The back cover shows the attitude of re-embracing a more meaningful life after discovering real significant APPs.
Solution 2: poster
Poster 1 selected the three most time-consuming apps and clenched black and white fists to form the “original state of life”, poster 2 designated three meaningful apps for life and opened colourful palms to create the “new” state of life.
