Detailed Proposal: App to Boost Productivity by Limiting Social Media

This report introduces a proposal for a mobile application designed to enhance user productivity by addressing the pervasive issue of social media distractions. The app aims to allow users to monitor and control their time spent on selected social media platforms, offering features such as usage tracking, time blocking, and limited access windows. The methodology involves a primary research approach with 1500 participants, utilizing focus groups to analyze daily app usage over three months. The project is scheduled for six months, encompassing candidate selection, data analysis, and results evaluation. The project will be carried out by software developers and professional researchers to ensure the app's effectiveness and user-friendliness, ultimately seeking to provide a unique solution to productivity issues stemming from social media overuse.

Introduction
Productivity in this current age is at an all-time low. With tons of apps on the market that are
made
To entertain and distract, it is hard to get work done most times. It is even more difficult to not
use these apps when they are just a swipe away. This is where we come in. We propose an app
that will make you more productive by saying no to these apps, so you don’t have to.
Background on the Problem or Need
While a user is on their phone, there are at least a dozen apps begging for their attention. When
there is working to be done, it is even harder to say no to the temptation of going on Instagram,
or Snapchat. What you said would be a quick look turns into 30 minutes wasted. You don’t want
to turn off your phone however, since you still want to get important texts or calls. So, the next
best thing would be to delete those apps, but you still want them when you have the time to
relax and have fun. The app proposed will make it so you do not have to turn off your phone, or
delete any apps.
Description on What is Proposed
Social media has become such an integral part to the lives of many. However, this also means
that we are spending more and more time on social media sites, and that can take away from
daily productivity. Social media is a nice escape, but it can be hard to pull away from, to a point
where a user may not even notice the time passing. One minute it’s 2 pm, the next it’s 5 pm.
Where did all that time go?
We would like to create an app that will help bring some awareness to this issue, as well as
provide solutions to break the habit of constantly lurking on social media. The app would allow
the user to pick what apps they want to monitor, keep track of the time spent with said app open
on their phone, and allow them to block said app from being opened for set periods of time. If
the user wished, the app would also allow them to be able to have access for a set period of
time in the duration of block-activation. For instance, a user could block Twitter for two hours,
but allow for a five minute window of usage within those two hours. After those five minutes
have passed, Twitter would be force closed. In times where the block is not in use, the user
would be able to review their time spent on their social media apps, to get a better idea of how
they are spending their time. We hope to create something unique and user friendly that will
help to solve some productivity issues that many people face.

Methods for Providing What is Proposed
In order to find out the affectivity of the app, a primary research method shall be adopted. This
methodology will help to determine the level of effectiveness of the app and to what level the
app shall help the candidates to enhance their productivity level and decrease their time wasted
upon social media. A total number of 1500 candidates shall be participating for the study. Each
candidate shall be provided with the mobile application and their period of activity on social
media sites shall be recorded over a period of three months. This methodology shall also help to
find out that whether the other mobile applications and social media sites are responsible for
slowing down the productivity level of individuals. Focus groups shall be set up in order to
analyze and record the day to day activity of these candidates.
Schedule for Carrying Out the Plan
For the purpose of carrying out the plan a period of six months shall be required. The first month
shall be dedicated in choosing the volunteering candidates for the purpose of study. The next
step would be to analyze the candidates by applying the research methodology selected for the
study. This would require a period of three months as the effectiveness of the app shall be
tested during the study process. In the next two months the procedure of evaluation of data
collected and finding out the result from the methodology shall be initiated. The period of six
months shall be appropriate enough to complete this research. However, this scheduled period
may extend if any of the candidates disrupt the research procedure or become unavailable due
to any circumstance.
In order to complete this six-month long schedule of research study, each step shall be initiated
in a scheduled time. The first month of the allotted schedule shall be difficult to achieve as the
selection procedure of volunteering candidates may take some time. The next three months that
would be allotted for analyzing the candidates may take some time more than the scheduled
time period. As the candidates for the research study shall be voluntarily participating they are
not bound with any contract. Henceforth, they are free to leave the research study at any time.
This may affect the research study method and as a result of which extend the scheduled time
period. Once the data are collected, the results or outcomes shall be found out that would
require a period of two months. This allotted time for evaluation and finding out the results would
be scheduled on time.
Qualifications for those who will carry
out the plan
The individuals who would carry out the plan will be professionals and responsible individuals.
Since the research for this study is based upon the new mobile application that would diminish
the activity of using other mobile application, the individual that would carry out the research
methodology must have a skilled knowledge regarding mobile applications. Henceforth, an

individual working as a software developer would be appropriate and suitable individual that
would efficiently carry out this research plan. In addition to this, other researchers shall also
have a professional knowledge regarding mobile applications.
Additionally, the individuals that would be associated to carry out this research plan must
possess analytical skills so that they could foresee the probable obstacles or challenges that
may come in way for completing the study. However, it is extremely essential for the individual
to be a software developer since without that knowledge it would be impossible to carry out the
study. In fact a team of software developers would be working collaboratively to create an app
that would do the above proposed task of diminishing the use of other mobile applications by
users. For the evaluation of the data and bringing out the results from it, a group of professional
researchers shall be allotted that would efficiently carry out their job role. In fact focus group
shall be allotted in order to analyze the participants’ daily activity of mobile applications. This
would help to establish a more concrete data.