Harmony

In recent years, many companies around the world have implemented a work-from-home strategy. While this may have caused celebration for some, for others it created a difficult challenge: how to balance work and life when they now reside in one location- the home. Many working professionals have struggled with this challenge, citing fatigue and low morale as major causes for drops in productivity. On July 5, 2022, MICA tasked our team of five to develop a digital prototype that addresses the issue and improves work-life balance for remote/hybrid professionals within eight weeks.

Our solution to this challenge was Harmony, an adaptive app for companies that allows workers to create actionable goals that reestablish a proper work/life balance, making both work and life more fulfilling in the process. The app makes goals more actionable by allowing co-workers to collaborate on their goals, allows the company to be flexible when those goals are completed, and makes the company’s expectations more transparent. To create the app we followed a design thinking method that allowed us to understand the problem, explore solutions and materialize a prototype.