Baijia Jin

Sleep Diary is an application which can help bedtime procrastinators release their pressure and negative emotions before sleep. It provides a private and safe space for users. By writing things down, users will feel more relaxed and have a better sleep. It allows users to spend time on their inner thoughts which are always ignored by people, and gives a guidance to let them organize their emotions, so that the potential factors of sleeplessness could be let out.

There are two main causes of bedtime procrastination. First is daytime pressure. If the less enjoyable things are that a person could do during the day, the likelier it was that they would try to reclaim that time at night and engage in the more pleasurable activities they had not been able to do during the day. The second reason is bedtime entertainment. This occurs because people don’t want to quit other activities. Both of the causes originate from a psychological level. Thus, to solve the problem, I believe the most effective way is to solve from the root, which is releasing people’s pressure and focusing on their willingness to be without any more stress.

The core concept around the application is that keeping a diary is good for mental health. Writing in a diary has been proved by many research studies that it can lead people to face the emotions inhibited previously and reduce their stress. By memorizing and reorganizing the experience in words, people will find out the original negative emotions hiden behind time and memory, which will lead to a better understanding themselves and greater control of emotions.

The main function is a sleep diary. As mentioned before, users can use this function to relieve their stress and negative thoughts in this safe and private place, in order to gain a better sleep and an earlier sleep time. Second, the sleep history will be all recorded visually. Users can understand their habits and adjust the rest time. Furthermore, talking to a close friend can make people feel relaxed and pour out their troubles without stress. A product character talking like a friend will help achieve this goal - all the words that appear in the app will be structured in the way of conversation. Also, the words are all designed in an opening and leading style, which will promote the user's willingness to talk.

The CD cover was designed from the song Love No More. When I first heard it I felt as if I was in a wonderland, surrounded by waves and cloud of smoke. The lyric melody brings me a feeling of blue memory, and the only lyrics are repeated in the form of an opera, as if calling a lost lover. To mix music and visual design together, there is something magical about finding inspiration from melodies and creating visual images.

This project was aimed at showing an atmosphere by creating a place. The people in a modern city, no matter workers or students, seem like they are all of them are trapped in their seat. We sit at the table in front of the window, but we rarely have time and the romantic feeling to look away from the screen. The scene was designed to recreate a paradise, go back to the nature and whether day or night, it has its own unique beauty to wait for you. Release yourself from the stressful table, raise your head and look out the window, I hope it can remind people to not to forget to enjoy their life.