Let Me Think
Let Me Think is a product based on a connected totem that yo
At Let Me Think, we wanted to involve our community in the development of our product, right from the beginning. As a matter of fact, it was thanks to our different exchanges on digital habits that we truly understood the absurdity of our current relationship with smartphones. Due to their high value, they have become essential in our lives. However, they are unsuitable to our work environments and can become a big source of distraction. Unable to live without them, we allow them to constantly interrupt us. This does not make any sense! Furthermore, our discussions with Nir Eyal, the author of Hooked and Indistractable, Stéphanie Bertholon, a smartphone addiction specialist, and Allan Armougum, a neuroscientist, have also helped us understand the cognitive mechanisms behind the use of our smartphones.
All these exchanges, as well as a great deal of research and design thinking, have enabled us to create the best solution to this problem: a connected totem that transforms your smartphone into a working tool. We prototyped the solution, tested different shapes, created several versions of the totem and the app. After many different versions were made, we were able to use the best one within our team and with beta users.
Now that we had the totem and the app, we needed to test it. So we decided to launch a beta test. We worked with several beta testers in order to improve our product but also to check if it was as useful as we think it was. And it also helped us to fix a lot of bugs 😅
We created the launcher which is the second part of Let Me Think. Indeed, the totem works alongside with a launcher app on the smartphone. So that when you touch the totem, it launches the launcher. And when you touch it another time, you are back in "normal mode".
After this victory at the design contest, we decided that Let Me Think should be more than just a school project. So with a colleague of mine we decided to start this journey! We wanted to to improve our product so we managed to get the help of some researchers
We just created our first prototypes, after long months of research on the attention economy and on UX design, we won a contest in Strate, a well-known French school of design. This was the first step of our journey and it built the first version of the totem!
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