Designing Your Energy-Aware App
Like Duolingo, but for Designing Your Energy-Aware App. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Designing Your Energy-Aware App
- Mental friction and emotional stress drain the user's battery faster than simple physical movement
- Time duration is a misleading metric for task difficulty in a productivity app
- High Power tasks require full-body exertion or intense focus
- Low Power tasks can be done while tired or distracted
- Recognizing that mental and emotional effort contribute to a task's total energy cost
- Categorizing common app activities by their power intensity
- Seeing a long list of impossible tasks when tired causes 'task paralysis'
- Mental and emotional effort drain energy
- Filtering creates a psychological win by showing only achievable goals
- Tasks can be scaled down in intensity or duration while still counting as a 'win'
- Categorizing app activities by power intensity
- A 5-minute stretch is a better alternative than skipping the habit entirely
- Filtering and dynamic sizing for psychological wins
- Success is choosing the right task for your current state, not just doing the most work
- The benefit of filtering the to-do list based on current user capacity
- Matching effort to mood prevents the 'all-or-nothing' failure cycle
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Designing Your Energy-Aware App the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If two chores both take 10 minutes, why might your app treat them differently?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Designing Your Energy-Aware App takes you
Learn to build a blueprint for an app that understands your mood and matches your chores to your actual energy levels.
- 1
Matching Tasks to Your Vibe
- The Energy-Cost Menu
- Designing Micro-Wins
- 2
Building a Smarter Brain
- Context and Environment Logic
- The Supportive Voice
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
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