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– Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 05:27:26 PM
Hi guys, it is bravestorming again. We are right now making the backer survey and hopefully it will be sent out by the end of this week.
To make sure the momentum is not dead in the water, we would love to take this update session as an opportunity in providing more contents to our backers. This includes more making of process and other back stories of how mover is born
Today, we are happy to share a concept called “Physical Layering”, which plays a very vital role in the development of Mover.
“When a 1 minute phone unlock email check can mysteriously expand to an infinite scrolling of cat videos, we believe things are better off with tasks layered out in a finite physical form. “
Physical Layering is the process of taking ideas and tasks onto physical container, layering them out of virtual information or noise. Ever encountered the experience of looping old messages or old notes from the phone you jotted down, which you would have done but you never did? An old idea you were suddenly stroked with but never got to be acted upon? You had so much energy to type them in and switched back to the previous screen you had been working on, wishing you would return to them afterwards. What happened then? Either you never checked back the input passage or you were busy doing other stuff and swiped right the notification whenever it came.
“No matter how much emphasis you attach to a particular task or idea, unless it is a life and death matter, when you input them into the phone, they are still trapped on the same layer with digital noise. Screens can easily be switched; originally focused ideas or tasks can be interchanged with digital distraction. “
A simple example can be “cleaning the work-desk”. You input it into the phone with high hopes of doing it when you are back at home. Once you are back, settle down and turn on the schedule, you clearly see you should be “cleaning the work-desk” on the screen. When you stand up, ready to do the action, what happened? “2018 Best Compilation of Cats” pops up! “I need to do the cleaning.” You heart echoes. Then your friends whatsapped you. You reply with few words and suddenly see the Instagram hyperlink. You say to yourself, “OK, just a moment.” You clicked into it and guess what? The screen of the schedule is long gone. You have already been directed to a long haul of cat videos into midnight. In the end, you say to yourself, “cleaning work desk? Another day.” Actually, you did not do it the day after until things are too messy and intolerable.
“When the input tasks can be ignored by the easy right swipe, just like you did with the multiple alarm in the morning, we believe physical things in eye-sight area help better action.“
Your task, while on the phone (digital world), is still within the single layer with other potential emerging emails, pop-up messages or call to action. The easy switching from one window to another makes them shelter in the same basket, easily replaceable by one another. Not one is singly layered out and your task may get buried. It may even get worse when nowadays everyone is fighting for your eyeballs with social media channels, bloggers hiring state of the art psychologists and UX designers hooking you in their designed loop. It takes extra will power to reach back to our intended task. Not to mention the task may not be merely “cleaning the work desk” but self-improve tasks like “practicing piano” or “writing 500 words of my novel”. Despite their relationship with your goal or dream, they pose difficulty on top of the already hardly accomplished halt from phone scrolling. What happen when you start to feel hard while checking them back on the screen? Easy switch right! Easy scroll down! Easy home button! Just another journey of information looping and consumption but no real action.
By writing your ideas or tasks on real things and put them in eye-sight area, a new layer with a more pressing state is constructed. Written things are ascended to such a layer. Your attention now resides on such a physical and finite source, contrasting to the previous source of infinite temptation. Focus is generated to begin with. And Mover is the manifestation of such a process.
Mover is movable memo brick, presenting itself in a pressing, unignorable and physical form. It serves as a container for your sudden idea or task which need to be processed or dealt with later. It transcends the limitation of the traditional note book or paper where written items are still in a “2D” form and inseparable once jotted down. Traditionally, for physical writing, ad-hoc tasks are written on a corner of an easy reached book on work-desk. Without a conscious mind, they become the victim of a turned and never returned page. Until the moment your boss asks or your sixth sense tingling, it is still caved at that unvisualized area of a closed notes.
With a Mover, sudden idea for the next paragraph can be written down and moved aside without distorting the original flow; an unforeseen demanded task from a call from the boss can be recorded and moved aside to be dealt with. The stacked up contour and the weight-carried form of the mover make sure its survival on your work desk for you to return to, in contrary to the almost thin-to-nothing single piece of sticky note or paper, easily covered or zipped into messy paperworks or absorbed by the floor elf. Your “feedback email to Bentham”, “return call to supplier”, “bill repayment by today”, “update check on May’s progress” and “Proposal b4 This Friday” can now be manipulated like chesses on your work desk with movers.
If you want to work with “Feedback Email to Bentham” only, others can now step aside. That is where the mover organizers come in handy. For MoverPad, you can attach them all up aside your computer screen, serving as an always in sight vertical reminder for your viewing. If you are working with “Proposal for This Friday”, why not take it off and tear off the first layer and rewrite it as “Brainstorm ideas for the Marketing proposal” for clearer specification thus workable. Bring out two movers and write “Online” and “Offline” to develop two branches. For the current three movers in your eyesight area, make the other two step aside and focus on ”Online” aspect first. Running out of ideas? No problem. Try to collide things. Movers are good for collision, after all, chess is for hitting each other.
What is around you? Let’s take down the “Bill repayment by tdy” from the MoverPad and hit it with “Online” mover. “Repayment and Online?” Why not loosen up customers’ repayment allowance on the web for a better persuasion of the transaction? That could be a nice marketing strategy. More traffic is channeled to the web and analytical consumer data is collected. Congrats. You have something to begin with. Why not try the same thing with the “Offline” mover. Try to hit it with “Feedback email to Bentham”. “Feedback” and “Offline”? Customer feedbacks are more genuine when it comes to face to face and offline transaction. Having a discount for customers finishing survey at local store can collect valuable insights into service improvement. Observably, ideas are worth combined and juiced for new inspirations. Movers’ physical chess like form precisely serve such a “hitting” purpose. At the end, this little brainstorming session can be concluded with all related movers within the big-picture. But the brainstormed idea is never enough without action. Writing the doable steps on a mover, “type in online repayment allowance” and “Offline Survey Feedback plan”, and schedule them in eye-sight area for later process can be hugely beneficial. “What you see is what you do.”
Nowadays, people wonder why their attention span on one task is so little when it comes to electronic devices. Making progress feels hard. The key reason is the device keeping track of your work is the same source feeding you digital disturbance or annoyance. And you solely depend on it. With a more advance technology, things are expected to travel faster. People are easier to get hooked. As Daniel Goleman simply put in his book, “Focus”, “The bottleneck for humanity is no longer the computing power of the hardware but the ability of people to keep focused and a clear mind to process the information.” Bravestorming.com believes “physical layering” can be a strategy for people to process things and narrow down their focus on more well-defined and finite context, easing the feeling of an unending workflow. When things from the external world stops, things start to come from within. The single most powerful asset we all have is our brain. When it is no longer used to consume messages from the external but to dig deeper yourself for a solution, imagination and creation start to kick in.
Co-founder of Bravestorming.com
Philip Chan
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