In Hong Kong, people send 110,000 tonnes of textiles to landfills every year, meaning that on average we throw out around 1,400 t-shirts every minute. Minimalism is the new trend around the world which encourages people learn different decluttering series on clothing. Our vision is to improve the consumption habits of the teenager 18-26.The goal is to build a slow fashion community that cultivates their members to be more mindful of what fits them the best.
Our project includes a mobile application and an interactive device. The mobile application measures the social media addiction level of users, and then provide a relative social media usage quota based on the addiction level. For the quota, we call it "INK". The smart devices are used to shift users' attention from their mobile phones to other activities that they are interested in. The goal of our project is to help them accustomed to staying away from using smartphones.Why do we use “INK” to be our design metaphor?Because we think that the behaviour of scrolling smartphones is like printing. The content on social media is generated like paper printed out from a printer. Daily social media usage quota will be provided to users according to users’ conditions as ‘ink”. The contents on social media are like to be printed out by printers. So when the ink has run out, the content is hardly visible, like printed with a low ink printer.
Nowadays, it's hard to help the world even if we try to. The act of charity can be said to be a complex struggle between the heart and the brain – we feel for the less fortunate and want to help the world improve, but we want to do it within our means and for our money to go to the most deserving organization. Every day, we are plagued with aggressive marketing tactics, an overload of information, and a lack of confidence as to how our money is being used.My proposed solution is a more comprehensive and functional charity-comparing platform, Clarity in Charity, that is engagingly informative while also providing a fair chance to every charity to advocate their respective causes without bias. Different than other charity comparing platforms currently on the market, I have integrated certain features into this platform that promotes critical thinking and encourages users to fully understand the background of charitable causes as well as their personal donation philosophies.