Bottleneck — Burghi

Bottleneck is a digital service supporting the user in the daily management of incoming notifications. It works on different devices during work time; prioritising notifications through AI in order to promote a more balanced digital life and an inclusive approach in the use of communication tools.

[ Role ]

UX research UI Design UI Prototyping

[ User Interface ]

[ System features ]

1. The system detects all notifications, both desktop and mobile, filtering out work and personal ones.

2. The system is able to
synthesise entire long conversations into a single message.

3. The communication channels scattered across different social networks are grouped together and aggregated in a single dashboard.

[ Taxonomy ]

Notifications are classified and prioritised on the basis of a taxonomy. It is a completely flexible scheme, capable of calibrating itself according to the user's specific needs.

[ Brand development ]

The Bottleneck brand starts from the dualism between private and work spheres. This daily overlap is expressed in an icon in which the two spheres overlap, through two colours that represent them in the UI as well.

[ System integration ]

Bottleneck's goal is to be invisible and minimise invasiveness for the user. For this reason, the system incorporates the host operating system through fonts and graphic elements.

[ MacOS ]

[ Windows 11 ]

[ Credits ]

Produced during the master's degree in communication design at the Politecnico di Milano. Group project carried out with:
Bonfanti Sofia, Clericetti Giovanni and Prinetti Tommaso