Min’s thesis 2017

Making a physical prototype for a video shooting.

After the user test, I iterated the design and projected it on a desk to know it’s look and feel in an actual environment. I noticed a few…

While developing a prototype, I needed user’s feedback about the system to go further. I created a paper version prototype that imitates…

Reflect’s whole system consists of three parts: Initial setting, Daily reflection, and Archive.

While researching, I realized journaling is based on habit. Even though there are great services that help people write journal, if it…

1. Initiation

Things to improve from ver.1

This is an exercise to identify the strong and weak points of competitors in Life Documentation market. From paper journals to smart photo…

Value proposition

Horizontal axis: Decision Making Criteria(User+Personal Criteria)

Thesis prompt: a two-part list of criteria for evaluating ideas

From September to December in 2016, the fastest time has passed. My thesis theme, Life documentation, which I thought was simple, became…

After I chose the thesis topic — Life documentation, I wanted to explore three main aspects under this topic.

Objectives

Today, we record a lot. We take pictures, track our activities, take notes on mobile, post on social media and so on. In other words, more…

3 Assumptions as a starting point

As a preliminary research, I interviewed several people to understand their perception of life documentation. I made discussion guide and…

As in-class activity, I did group brainstorming exercise with 3 classmates: Julian, David.A, Keith. Basically, we shared each thesis topic…

As one of exercises of thesis development, I chose one idea from my initial idea sketches to make role-playing scenario using an imaginary…

Objectives

Here are some initial ideas so far based on topic — Make journaling super easy to keep and re-visit past memories.

This is an not official study! This is a practice to track back my thesis idea for better understanding of the technology in life…