DayDreamer: Sleeping Kit for daytime resters
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As part of my thesis, I explored how design interventions could help improve the after-work experience for this often-overlooked group. One of the outcomes is Daydreamer, a comprehensive sleep solution specifically tailored to support daytime sleepers in creating an optimal rest environment.
Daydreamer includes a suite of three carefully designed products that address three distinct barriers that third-shift workers face when trying to achieve quality daytime rest.
Skill: Rapid prototyping / Digital Embodiment / Business analysis / Videography / Product photography / Sketches
Period: 02/2025-06/2025
Software: Adobe Illustrator/ Adobe Photoshop
Instruction: Sinclair Smith / Allan Chochinov
Problem
Due to the fact that the schedules of third-shift workers are completely out of sync with normal circadian rhythms, their suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is affected by daylight when they attempt to sleep during the day, which interferes with their ability to fall asleep. Through interviews with five third-shift workers from different professions and an analysis of their sleep patterns, we identified three key pain points that hinder their ability to fall asleep.
Design principle
Through a deep look into the sleeping market, I found out that although there are a lot of sleep assistance products on the market, such as 红外光线治疗， there is a lack of products that focus on the third shift workers， they are more or less not meet with the design princeples above or lack of the features that focus on the third shift workers. 同时，夜班工作者普遍属于低收入人群，因此， Based on this, 我为我的产品设定了三个设计原则，以便最大程度上的设计出符合用户需求的产品。
Market analysis
Opportunities
在进一步的调研过程中我发现，由于不规律的生物节律带来的睡眠影响并不是一次性的。他们带来的二次行动会进一步的作用于用户带来更坏的影响，从而形成一个睡眠恶性循环。例如：当用户因为缺乏时间感知而频繁起夜时，首先会睁开双眼确认时间，而这时，自然光线会进入眼睛，进一步作用于suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)，导致用户的生物钟进一步紊乱，从而抑制睡眠。
因此我提出了三个疑问，并尝试用日常睡眠最常用的三个物品出发。来改善，促进，优化，定义夜班工作者的白天睡眠。第一个就是夜班工作者难以入睡这一问题提出的。
How might we help daytime sleepers gradually calm their minds while still in an excited state, so they can fall asleep more quickly?
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Processes
在佛教中，教徒们为了能够快速的入定进入冥想，会借助各种各样的冥想类工具。 这一类工具通常会调动一种感官，例如触觉，听觉或视觉来更好的帮助教徒牵引自己的意识。因此我从佛教中帮助人们进入冥想的工具中获得灵感，尝试结合三个设计原则和日常睡眠的用品。xx是一种冥想工具，用手拿着一个小棍子，视觉跟随小棍子穿过迷宫然后意识慢慢延申从而进入睡眠。 但是，这个工具违反了减少视觉使用这一原则。 因此，我想要将视觉转化为触觉，将这一过程转化到最常见的睡眠用品——睡衣上。
