Whether you are on the bed, in a restaurant, at the bus stop, on the train or even waiting for a friend, you don’t waste a chance to unlock your phone and check out a text message, social media, emails or perhaps latest news.
If you track the time you spend your smartphone, you will realize that you spend half of your day is devoted to your phone. Now let me ask you a question; do you know why to spend that much time on your phone?
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The point here is not to tell you how much time you spend on the phone. The point here is to show why you spend so much time on the phone. Don’t worry that’s not your fault, your brain being hacked. Oh yeah!
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and other app developers are responsible for the time you spend on your phone. But you are also one responsible for this problem. You might ask how they are responsible for the time I spend on my phone.
USER EXPERIENCE
Normally mobile App developer’s team, have a UX – User Experience Designer. User Experience Designer is the person responsible for the methods and techniques that create interaction between the user and the product to trigger your brain.
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On the other hand, you have a psychologist that helps the UX designer understand human behavior, emotion, and sense. For example, colors, size, fonts, contrast, emoji, likes, symbol, Snapchat streak, proximity, space, and tones. So they create these features that capture your attention on their product.
ANXIETY
Many of us feel anxious when your smartphone is not around or even when you have no internet access.
A research conducted by a Psychologist Larry Rosen, called THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE BRAIN, found that when you put your phone down, you brain don’t shut off from the phone, instead it produces a hormone called cortisol, which is essentially a natural built-in alarm system in your brain, that makes you check your phone every 15 minutes, even when you have not notification like a comment from Twitter, Facebook or snap chat.
HOW TO MEASURE THE USAGE OF YOUR SMARTPHONE?
The best way to track how much time you spend on your phone is by installing an app that helps you track the time. For iPhone users, you can download from the App Store App called Moment. For android users, you can download from Google Play either Moment or Quality Time.
Your Call
Smartphones are becoming sophisticated, practical that our usage reflects on the improvement.
The reason you spent 1/6 of your day on phone is purposely designed by those companies. Now is your call to minimize the time you spend on your smartphone. If you minimize, you will be less distracted on your phone and be more productive in your activities.
