more effective using technology
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Being more effective
using technology
Technology promised us productivity and delivered on the promise, but didn’t tell
us the cost was our sanity.
We check our phones more than 150 times per day. Knowledge workers spend a third of their day in email. Teenagers (aged 14-17) send 4,000 texts/month, or every six
minutes online.
Why?
Distracted
FOMO, FOBO, Procrastination
Why?
1. Technology is a tool. 2. Distraction is not new.3. Mindfulness!? = a present-state awareness that helps you to be
non-reactive4. Tech industry perspective5. Not another fucking app
a. These are the tools I use and you’ll find some useful.
Disclaimer
So many choices!
● Decision fatigue
● Accept sub-optimal outcomes
● Productivity is intuitive.
● Work has changed but people haven’t.
● Diminishing returns > 40 hrs/week
Productivity
At work...Attention Economy
At work...Notifications
How can we design notifications as if it were a human (Your mom) doing it?
How can we design apps so it makes us spend time well?
PS: Turn off all your notifications except when *people* (not apps or businesses) are trying to reach you
Notifications
At work...Interruptions
23 minutes to refocus our attention.
At work...Interruptions
We train ourselves to self interrupt. Every 3.5 minutes.
Continuous Partial Attention
In a 24/7, always-on world, continuous partial attention used as our dominant attention mode contributes to a feeling of overwhelm, over-
stimulation and to a sense of being unfulfilled. We are so accessible, we’re inaccessible.
Connected, yet alone?
Connected, yet disconnected?
Multitasking + Context switching
● Multitasking works for tasks that are cognitively less intensive
● Be aware of switching costs
● Email apnea● Design interfaces to respect user’s intentions● Inbox Zero | Emails are notifications
Email - Inbox, Newton + Wishlist
How much time on email today?
5m
Phone tips Phone1. Have less than two home pages2. Have shortcuts for your camera
on the locked screen3. Consider using FB/Instagram on
the browser4. QualityTime5. Homescreen
○ Utility○ Aspiration○ Organize the colorful ones in
folder6. Notifications
Lets dive in! Phone
Meditation, huh?
1. Calm.com / DoNothingForTwoMinutes.com
2. Insight Timer
3. Headspace
Sleep
Four out of five smartphone users check their phones within the first 15 minutes of waking
up. 80% of those say it’s the first thing
they do in the morning.
Posture
Local Warming: Inconvenient Truth
When you wake up...Social
When you wake up...Out and about
Thank you!