Sleep option

From my survey results I found out that people were forgetting to turn off appliances when they leave the room, or seem to be leaving them on for no reason when they are not using them. This also occured with recycling items, as people forgot to put them in the recycling bin.

My first solution to this was to design a set of stickers for people to place around the home. The stickers would have simple messages on them telling them to turn the appliances off. I thought of a new way in which this will work so that user’s don’t have to go around the house placing stickers.

The inspiration for this idea came from a piece of ineractive design that is found on an apple mac. Users of this computer are able to set their preferences on their computer. Within these preferences features a setting that is named “energy saver”. Within this setting one can adjust a tool

bar that puts the computer to sleep when they are inactive for a cetain amount of time. This is a unique idea and as it saves energy.

So the idea that I have thought of is to use this technology to apply to my website. The idea is to have a similar setting where users can choose when they would like to put appliances in their home to sleep when they are inactive for a certian period of time. There will be a slider tthat is features on the website so that users can choose when they would like to put the appliances to sleep when they are inactive. This idea is designed to help users reach their benchmark so that they are not simply left on their own having to meet their plan.