Timeless
A sans-interface alarm clock designed to regulate the user's sleep/wake schedule and cull alarm denial habits. Without being able to see the exact time, the thought of prolonging sleep due to believing they have extra time before having to get up will gradually disappear from the user's routine.
Client: CatHacks VII
Space: Hackathon
Timeframe: 48 hours
My Role: Visual design, slide deck creation, video editing
Team: 4 members: 2 Arduino specialists, 1 developer, 1 designer. Teammate names: Meghan Hein, Cameron Jupp, Chantal Snazel
Context: The CatHacks VII hackathon is a 48hr virtual hackathon where attendees choose any idea to work on in teams of 4. Hosted by the University of Kentucky, virtual attendees from around the world participated.
Timeless
A sans-interface alarm clock designed to regulate the user's sleep/wake schedule and cull alarm denial habits. Without being able to see the exact time, the thought of prolonging sleep due to believing they have extra time before having to get up will gradually disappear from the user's routine.
Client: CatHacks VII
Space: Hackathon
Timeframe: 48 hours
My Role: Visual design, slide deck creation, video editing
Team: 4 members: 2 Arduino specialists, 1 developer, 1 designer. Teammate names: Meghan Hein, Cameron Jupp, Chantal Snazel
Context: The CatHacks VII hackathon is a 48hr virtual hackathon where attendees choose any idea to work on in teams of 4. Hosted by the University of Kentucky, virtual attendees from around the world participated.
Timeless
A sans-interface alarm clock designed to regulate the user's sleep/wake schedule and cull alarm denial habits. Without being able to see the exact time, the thought of prolonging sleep due to believing they have extra time before having to get up will gradually disappear from the user's routine.
Client: CatHacks VII
Space: Hackathon
Timeframe: 48 hours
My Role: Visual design, slide deck creation, video editing
Team: 4 members: 2 Arduino specialists, 1 developer, 1 designer. Teammate names: Meghan Hein, Cameron Jupp, Chantal Snazel
Context: The CatHacks VII hackathon is a 48hr virtual hackathon where attendees choose any idea to work on in teams of 4. Hosted by the University of Kentucky, virtual attendees from around the world participated.
Timeless
A sans-interface alarm clock designed to regulate the user's sleep/wake schedule and cull alarm denial habits. Without being able to see the exact time, the thought of prolonging sleep due to believing they have extra time before having to get up will gradually disappear from the user's routine.
Client: CatHacks VII
Space: Hackathon
Timeframe: 48 hours
My Role: Visual design, slide deck creation, video editing
Team: 4 members: 2 Arduino specialists, 1 developer, 1 designer. Teammate names: Meghan Hein, Cameron Jupp, Chantal Snazel
Context: The CatHacks VII hackathon is a 48hr virtual hackathon where attendees choose any idea to work on in teams of 4. Hosted by the University of Kentucky, virtual attendees from around the world participated.
Idea
The initial idea for Timeless was driven by the user story:
"As an alarm-denier, I want a clock that doesn't display the time so I don't procrastinate my morning routine.”
"As an alarm-denier, I want a clock that doesn't display the time so I don't procrastinate my morning routine.”
"As an alarm-denier, I want a clock that doesn't display the time so I don't procrastinate my morning routine.”
Visual Language
Typography and most UI elements were derived from the Evergreen UI design system as we could quickly pick it up and work with it.
To establish a concise visual language with limited time, I started the task by creating a mood board of bright colours and skies to represent the morning.
From the mood board, I derived the principal colours for the interface.
Schematic and Hardware
Content
Schematic and Hardware
Content
Schematic and Hardware
Content
Schematic and Hardware
Content
The Concept
The user signs in to their account, set their desired alarm times, and proceed to use Timeless without their device in their sleep environment.
A pitfall we ran into was that a component on the Arduino board malfunctioned late into the night, and pushed our decision to show how we would expect a user to use Timeless. We adapted our presentation and demo video to show the expected output from a working Arduino component.
The Concept
The user signs in to their account, set their desired alarm times, and proceed to use Timeless without their device in their sleep environment.
A pitfall we ran into was that a component on the Arduino board malfunctioned late into the night, and pushed our decision to show how we would expect a user to use Timeless. We adapted our presentation and demo video to show the expected output from a working Arduino component.
The Concept
The user signs in to their account, set their desired alarm times, and proceed to use Timeless without their device in their sleep environment.
A pitfall we ran into was that a component on the Arduino board malfunctioned late into the night, and pushed our decision to show how we would expect a user to use Timeless. We adapted our presentation and demo video to show the expected output from a working Arduino component.
The Concept
The user signs in to their account, set their desired alarm times, and proceed to use Timeless without their device in their sleep environment.
A pitfall we ran into was that a component on the Arduino board malfunctioned late into the night, and pushed our decision to show how we would expect a user to use Timeless. We adapted our presentation and demo video to show the expected output from a working Arduino component.
Presentation
In standard hackathon fashion, we pulled an all-nighter to finish the presentation slides and video. The video was edited on Windows Movie Maker and posted to YouTube, for which the link was submitted in our final submission. Our video was played in a livestream that included all hackathon participants, sponsors, and judges.
See this project on Devpost
Presentation
In standard hackathon fashion, we pulled an all-nighter to finish the presentation slides and video. The video was edited on Windows Movie Maker and posted to YouTube, for which the link was submitted in our final submission. Our video was played in a livestream that included all hackathon participants, sponsors, and judges.
See this project on Devpost
Presentation
In standard hackathon fashion, we pulled an all-nighter to finish the presentation slides and video. The video was edited on Windows Movie Maker and posted to YouTube, for which the link was submitted in our final submission. Our video was played in a livestream that included all hackathon participants, sponsors, and judges.
See this project on Devpost
Presentation
In standard hackathon fashion, we pulled an all-nighter to finish the presentation slides and video. The video was edited on Windows Movie Maker and posted to YouTube, for which the link was submitted in our final submission. Our video was played in a livestream that included all hackathon participants, sponsors, and judges.
See this project on Devpost
Takeaways
I got the experience of being a dedicated visual designer in a time-pressure situation with all of my teammates focusing on development tasks, and it was inspiring to see my teammates wrangle with Arduino and front-end web dev code in such a pressuring situation.
We won the categorical prize 'Best Hardware Hack'. 🏆
