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Pillow Recorder - Product
What it is?
A Pillow that records and stores your bedtime thoughts as your are falling asleep.
Why
The pillow helps people unload their mind and shred their thoughts into this trustworthy magic box during bedtime, which organizes the thoughts and remind people of them the next morning.
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Clustering observations and needs - Challenge
Develop a Sleep Concept.
Goal
Chose a user group to design for, conduct user research, generate ideas and options and then create a prototype that brought the concept to life. The Sleep Concept could take any format and have any number/type of elements – however, it needed be interactive.
Reseach
10 interviews
14 people
13-67 years old
90 minutes
Osterbro, Copenhagen
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Clustering observations and needs
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Sharing desk research - Quotes
"there just aren’t enough hours in the day"
"I sleep well, and I always feel well adjusted"
"I often wake up from my dreams"
"night shifts confuse my rhthym, I don’t know when to start and stop"
"I do yoga before I go to sleep, to end the day and relax...
My boyfriend watches TV"
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Sharing desk research
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Sharing desk research - Observations
. good/enough sleep results in well adjusted people
. people adjust their rhythm to match partners, lifestyle, and environment
. there are common habits preceding going to sleep
Identified need
. easing and facilitating the transition from daytime to sleep
. emptying and unburdening the mind
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Storyboarding the user journey - Product
What it is?
A Pillow that records and stores your bedtime thoughts as your are falling asleep.
Why
The pillow helps people unload their mind and shred their thoughts into this trustworthy magic box during bedtime, which organizes the thoughts and remind people of them the next morning.
![](https://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/51585_0EQ58rA4ZTfqleDEjYOLmY7FB.jpg)
The journey - team:
Mayo Nissen
Martina Pagura
Li Bian
Sebastian Ronde Thielke
Pedro Nakazato Andrade
thanks to Ane Eline Sorensen
Project developed as part of the Team Building week ran by Karen Ward at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
pictures by Mayo Nissen
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