BUNDIC- The assistant for distributed working

BUNDIC is a device that aims to help distributed workers who work from home and other spaces in their neighborhoods. As we are allowed to work everywhere and anytime thanks to the technology. Our working hours also stretch to private time throughout the day. BUNDIC provides a series of simple physical interactions and indications that help users to create a working awareness when they work in casual spaces, where they also spend their private time.

BUNDIC tackles the problem that people nowadays interact everything through digitally and therefore have difficulty separating information from different daily routines. Researches suggest that we should deactivate and activate our focus on the task periodically so we can have a more sustainable focus and performance on our tasks. By activating BUNDIC with a simple click-in and -out action, users create a limited timeframe to help them immerse themselves in a working session and take a break afterward. With a LED indicator showing if it is at work or the session ends. The principle is similar to a chess timer or a metronome that helps the players focusing on their tasks within the timeframe. The front screen provides the working information, which users can customize to fit their needs without interacting with their phones. The click-in and -out action not only signals the awareness of work-life boundary but can also be synced with their company’s presence and absence status for better communications. By providing the physical interaction and an overview of their accumulated daily working hours, BUNDIC assists users in creating a clear awareness between work and life and help them arrange their daily structure better with real flexibility.

BUNDIC -Activation

Session countdown

Adaptive Off-work hour estimation

To the design language, BUNDIC focuses on physical engagement, therefore is designed to reclaim some analog feeling by using grip texture on the device. As well as the blend between the modern screen on the front side and the sharper backside which expresses a vintage personal device image that invites users to physically interact with. Overall it is designed as a quiet object that stays next to the user and providing assistance subtly.

By creating physical interactions to signal a start and an end of the work in the casual space. BUNDIC helps people to improve their flexible working routine with a clearer awareness.