week4. Digital badge app design draft for a lazy grad student

When I was a master’s student, I had clear goals, such as publishing papers and getting into a PhD program. I could see my progress quickly, and I was already motivated, so I didn't need any other rewards. However, as a PhD student, I have too many things to do at once. Without motivation, I keep procrastinating and being lazy, thinking, “I can do it tomorrow.” So I tried designing a digital badge application for lazy grad students, based on the functional badge taxonomy (Horstman et al., 2020)! It might look like a simple checklist, but if I could build a digital badge app, it would look like this…


  • There are some tags, and some of them are already set, such as research project, writing manuscripts, class study, self-directed learning, and course assignments. You can also make new tags.
  • Design: You can note your weekly tasks on a calendar. The badges update every week, and you can exchange them for cute icons. You can see the anonymous icons of other university students on a world map.
  • Mission: You set your own tasks based on the tags provided or you make. You can click the check icon for each task you completed on a day. 
  • Peer badges: You can also give a peer badge to friends who motivated you, helped you, or collaborated with you on a project. (There are no expert/teacher badges because I want to keep my autonomy, and advisors knowing how I am doing is a bit stressful😅)
  • Automatic badges: You get a badge automatically when you finish all your tasks for a day.
  • Hidden badges: These appear when you get 3 peer badges, or when you finish all your tasks for 3, 5, 7, 10, 20, or 30 days in a streak.
  • Unlocking & repeatable badges: I will break down some big tasks that every grad student does, such as reading papers, into smaller steps. You get a badge for each step.
    • Example: Read 2 papers a day (10 times. You can get 10 badges at minimum.) → Write one section of the literature review (2 times. You can get 2 badges at minimum.) → Analyze data (3 times. You can get 3 badges at minimum.).
  • Timed Badges: You get these when you finish your weekly course assignments on time or submit a conference paper before the deadline.

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