Pro-crast Nation [DISREGARD PLEASE]

Inspiration

Remember how you always seemed to pull an all-nighter, just to finish a project that was assigned two weeks ago? Despite your teacher’s reminders, and the friendly heads-up from classmates, you would still end up awake at 12 AM, groggy and sleepy, just to finish a report, or some chemistry homework. Everyone is guilty of procrastination at some point in their lives, and while it’s completely okay to take breaks, taking those breaks at the expense of healthy sleep, or for putting yourself under immense stress and pressure, is not. However, just like every habit (neutral, good, or bad), it’s hard to break the cycle you’ve been so used to. So how do we solve this issue? This “bad” habit of working under pressure? Just like with almost any other problem in the modern world, we can look to technology to help us!

What it does

Meet Pro-crat nation. Your new best friend to designing a productive life. Pro-crat nation helps you draw the uno reverse card on your weakness of performing under pressure and turns it into your biggest strength. How? Well, we use the principal of creating artificial pressure by setting deadlines on tasks and by dividing them into time-bound sub-tasks that offer rewards after completed. Artificial deadlines give a procrastinator the sense of urgency they need to stay on task without working 2 hours before the deadline.

How we built it

We used Figma to design the prototype and Canva to create the pitch deck.

Challenges we ran into

As complete beginners to technology and design, the team had to learn a lot about coding and design in such a short period of time. We also had to come up with a tangible way to create the application with as less coding involved as possible.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We learnt a lot about coding and design in the past two days. We also built a prototype of our app from scratch!

What we learned

We learnt to use Figma and design prototypes. We also learnt a lot about Canva and creating presentations. The research we did for the app helped us gain a thorough understanding about procrastination and the science behind it.