{"id":5744,"date":"2008-10-15T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/design\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:51:05","slug":"ctrlwork-application-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/design\/ctrlwork-application-design","title":{"rendered":"CtrlWork application design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of their productivity software suite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ergodirect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ergodirect<\/a> developed an application to encourage, and if necessary enforce, taking breaks during computer work. 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It would recommend you change your profile when it detected that too many breaks were being ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/CtrlWORK-console-anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5747\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A popup console was available to check your compliance with the break policy and allowed you to change and personalize settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The comprehensive web-based interface offered a lot of detailed insight in your application usage, not just time spend, but also keyboard or mouse used, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1023\" src=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/CtrlWORK-Reports-anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5746\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A more extensive web-based administrative interface was also made available<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"abdc-credits\"><em>Credits<br><\/em>ABDC was responsible for the naming of the application and logo design, and developed the persona profiles, daily use scenarios, interaction design, and screen designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design an app that encourages people to take breaks to increase productivity and prevent RSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[96,105,89,109,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-branding","category-interaction-design","category-logo","category-naming","category-ux-ui"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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