Experiment: Routine

For my third experiment I am going to look at eliciting routine from the user. I am going to do this by changing the look of shaving, primarily this will effect male shavers, specifically older males who are more traditional in the way they shave as they have more shaving utensils. However for the experiment as its on myself I will have to make do. Routine is something that doesn't change, it is the same from day to day. Shaving is relatively routine as it is, however the way in which the utensils to shave are treated is not very routine and this is what I aim to change with this experiment.

For this I am going to create a 'shaving box'. This box will be where the tools for shaving would be kept. The idea is that they will have an outline in the box of where each utensil is kept and you have to put it there when you have finished using it. It also means all the tools are in the same place. The user will hopefully feel routine as each time they go to shave they will get the box, take out the first utensil, use it, put it back in place, use the second utensil, put it back in place ect ect until they finish. Ideally if the experiment is successful I want to have a mould of the shaving tools so that the user has no choice  but to put them where they belong. But as this is an experiment I am using a paper box with pro-marker trace lines for where the utensils should go.

How it felt:
It was very irritating having everything in the box all in once place forcing me to go back and use it each time I wanted something. I felt that it was awkward for a woman who shaves in she shower as the box is not to go in the shower meaning I had to lean out every time I needed to pick something up. I felt that it did not illicit a routine. I felt that because it was so foreign and horrible to use the shaving box that I was disrupting the shower routine I have. Disruptive is very negative when trying to conduct a routine. I felt overall that this was not a very good way to create a routine. Maybe if I have time I would test it on a male to see if it elicits a routine on them.