Watch-Driven Sleep Habits Storyboarding and Wireflow

Looking at the role of our Watch app solution in the context of our persona’s life.

Recap

A few weeks ago, we created the aggregate persona of Jeremy Rest, a college student with trouble getting on a consistent sleep schedule.

Our target persona.

And among our top three solutions from last week was leveraging a smart watch application to monitor behavior and encourage habits for better sleep throughout the day.

Half-sheet by Khalid Ahmad

We also identified some questions and assumptions that this would test:

• Whether increased user awareness of when they are doing high energy activities too close to bed leads to an early shift in those habits and better sleep quality
• Users’ willingness to change behavior as the result of adaptive prompts instead of regularly scheduled ones
• Whether prompts from a health-focused product are more effective at driving healthy habits

Another question to explore within the interface is the role of text — what kind of balance makes sense between text and symbols? Do we want a more health-app-style UI to rely on user trust of those schema? How much do users want to read? How much justification do they need for each prompt?

Storyboard of Wynding down with Jeremy

“Product as Hero” storyboard for Wynd with Jeremy

We’re still working on a name, so Wynd is a placeholder playing on the idea of winding down with a watch. In the storyboard, I explored some of the challenges college students like Jeremy face in balancing sleep with classwork and social lives, with a lack of sleep generally resulting in a hit to the other two. After Wynd comes in, we see the effect of consistent cues — better quality and more consistent sleep leading to better overall quality of life.

A different kind of wireflow

Since Wynd is largely focused on small pushes across a long period of time, a traditional wireflow doesn’t entirely make sense; instead, I’ve set out a range of example reminders in a given day for Jeremy, adapted to his sleep goals and trends.

Wireflow of reminders and prompts throughout the evening, night, and morning.

This starts with prompts to stop consuming caffeine and get high-heart rate tasks out of the way early in the day, shifting to reminders to reduce blue light sources, drink water, and take measures to reduce heart rate around 2–3 hours before bed. Closer to bed, we see the screen becoming more and more red and prompting more direct prompts to wind down — turning off electronics, starting bedtime routines, and keeping devices away from the bed. In the morning, we see a prompt to adjust planned bedtime based on sleep quality. Other features include stopping prompts if the user is sleeping and taking advantage of Apple’s system of devices to tell users to get off the computer or phone.