Delightful screen time visualizations: A sketching-based exploration
Omar Sosa-Tzec · Nordic design research conference · 2023
Uncontrolled smartphone usage and excessive screen time are detrimental to people’s wellbeing. Informing people about screen time behavior is one strategy to help them attain digital wellbeing—a pleasurable, efficient, and controlled relationship with smartphones and other everyday technologies. This paper presents a series of sketches that explore unconventional, delightful screen time visualization on smartphones, illustrating an alternative to conventional screen time graphs. By showcasing these design concepts, this paper seeks to promote analog sketching as a valuable off-screen practice for design research, as it involves immersion, patience, and reflection.