ThumbsUp!

Despite the popularization and rise of disciplines such as positive psychology, people tend to undervalue and minimize their everyday efforts and actions. ThumbsUp! seeks to acknowledge the common struggles and prosaic and repetitive nature of life and to reward the successful completion of the tasks the user sets for him/herself for the given day. Finish a task, get a ‘thumbs up!’ and feel the positive reinforcement flow through. The product is imagined as a combination of the three themes provided, since I feel the themes are strongly interconnected, but its primary focus is on increasing work productivity through happiness, which could then lead to spreading and increasing happiness, and reducing stress and depression.