Towards Designing Human-Centered Time Management Interfaces: The Development of 14 UX Design Guidelines for Time-related Experiences in Mobile HCI

The widespread awareness of the functional role of time in human behaviors has opened up diverse research opportunities for “human-centered” time management mobile interfaces. Although a wide range of time management systems has been researched and developed, there is a need for integrated perspectives to be represented in a more systematic way to allow better implementation of extant findings. To develop human-centered time management interfaces, this paper presents the set-up of the development of UX design guidelines for time-related experiences. We investigate extant design approaches through a systematic literature review. Furthermore, we present the first version of UX design guidelines by synthesizing 31 reviewed articles and 150 relevant design considerations. We expect that our first iteration of the guidelines, which will be reviewed and revised for our next deployment study, will serve as a source of inspiration for further academic and professional research initiatives on users’ time-related experiences.