Evaluating Your Alienation Level
Jamie Yuan
Project Description
Nowadays, young employees working in big cities in China are suffering from the issue of overwork and involution. They not only withstand expended working time and heavy workload but also experience meaninglessness in work, as well as intense and useless competition from other employees. This thesis project explores the overwork and involution of Chinese digital laborers by quantifying these laborers’ level of alienation using critical design methods on a mobile app - Alienation To-do.
The app is an office and self-management app that can enable users to manage time and tasks at work and quantify the level of alienation of users by analyzing users’ data uploaded. There is a report that reminds users of their level of alienation and gives advice on how to ease the situation, and their levels of alienation will be influenced by a reward system.
BIO
Jamie Yuan is a user experience designer and product manager. She has a background in Landscape Architecture before entering OCAD and has some experience designing website interfaces and mobile apps for IoT products. She is interested in exploring user experience in apps and digital products and attaches great importance to it in her own design. She also cares about social issues, such as environmental problems and human living conditions, and wants to do some innovative or critical design for handling them.