Congying Wu

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Are we designing products to help people, or are we 'designing people'?

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In the traditional sense, the essence of product design is to serve people, but many existing products control our behavior while serving people, and have changed the lives of users to a large extent. What are product designers doing? Are you designing a product, or are you designing the user's life state or "designing the user"?

Fit for the Job

The device consists of a traditional office device and an interactive system and device that operates as a typing simulator, with several different levels of progressive difficulty and with sound and message jams designed to help your boss "train" you.
This interactive program is carried out by maxmsp in conjunction with arduino
The training process is mainly a typing exercise, with words that you need to remember before joining the 996 work state, such as "Limitless Dedication!" "Perfection Above All!" "No Rest, Only Success!" "No Mercy, No Excuses!" "Competition is Our Fuel!"
The lcd display will show random seconds of important information, which will be interspersed throughout the trainee's training, simulating your boss sending you a message on the fly, which you will need to remember and tap out in the shortest possible time and without stopping the task at hand
Everyone who participates in the training will receive a performance analysis report at the end of the training, which details your scores in each of the training sessions and those who do not achieve a score of 60 will not be eligible to join the 996 work environment

Medium: Vintage office equipment/Interactive devices

Building healthy working status

Download "Building healthy working status" (PDF)

The project aims to reflect on whether people's bad work habits need to be mediated by a combination of devices and products, and through this project I was prompted to think about why I wanted to design interactive devices to help people, rather than to improve the intensity of their work, which is what guided me to make 'Fit for the Job'.

Medium: Traditional office products/Interactive devices