CONTEXT

After the Ten Days on Tinder project, I was interested in visual representations of our digital lives. I thought about illustrating pet peeves I had in my daily life. My goal was to produce a basic data visualization of UX problems.

I felt conflicted about multitasking. The idea of it made me feel good and productive ; yet in practice it often resulted in a continuous stream of interruptions and lack of focus. At the end of the day, I sometimes felt like having accomplished nothing. I had tried Chrome plug-ins, which never resulted in a long-term habit change.

SCREENSHOTS

In terms of user experience, multitasking occurs when one toggles between apps. For this reason, I took a screenshot every time I switched from one app to another, on my phone and on my laptop. As long as I stayed in a given app, I did not take any other screenshots. I kept the screenshots untouched, only obstructing information in a few cases where business-related information was visible. I made this for one week, so one could compare the activity of different days. I purposely did not work too much on the week-end, to make the series more relatable.

IMAGES

I ended up with many screenshots. I wanted to make one single image per day and per device, to show the research in a more compelling way. A reference was an earlier project I made: