Thirsting for Conversation — Player HUB

Day 1: Gamify your life with an overlay of stats

Games always have a great way to oversee a player’s character. This helps people to easily see their character’s abilities and stats. Not only is this great for just gameplay, but also progress. By knowing exactly what your stats are, you can focus on exactly which thing you want to improve as well as see your progress happening in real time.

So why not have this in real life? We have all of this ‘big data’ at our fingers today, and will only gather more with the onset of IoT devices and sensors. So why not use this to our advantage?

I figure itd be an awesome use of data storytelling and visual design to have a sort of ‘Player HUD’ hub that details who you are.

The hub will be an overlay of a person, also known as a ‘player’ with stats of which they have their own menu, inventory, and settings to get a full, interactive and intuitive view of themselves….
In this overlay, certain stats can be prioritized, you can have custom improvement plans, and you can set trigger warnings for any variety or combination of alerts.

Here is a an example of some of things you can keep track of in a basic overlay (think of this as a wireframe, not at all a polished example):

Overlays can be categorized into different things. They dont all have to portray your body.

For instance, body-specific overlays can be of: Anatomic, Health, Fitness, Genetic vs Earned traits, etc

While non-body-specific can be of: Socioeconomics, Education, Network, etc

Either way, each item in the overlay can be interacted with to bring up the following menu/card with deeper metrics, analytics, and abilities.

This can also be a huge marketplace type opportunity as well!

Everyone can also create, buy, and sell non-essential overlays by the community.

These overlays could be anything, such as: Astrology-related, Meditative/Zen Body, Daoist/Cultivator, Science Facts about the body, etc
Essentially skins and player-created content. This will keep the whole thing fresh, dynamic, and always improving. It is also the key-feature that makes this more than just some cool app.. but a hub… a community… of people that want to improve and know more about themselves together.

What do you think?

Viable idea? Interesting? Useful? Ridiculous? Unnecessary? Weird?

I’d love to know your thoughts!

I personally would like to see this come to life, and will most likely try to do so myself after working through some of the other ideas that hold more interest for me. Thanks for reading!

It was fun sharing this, hopefully I can learn some great design skills if I do enough one-day wireframes like this haha.