Concepts that Matter
In fall 2020, after a turbulent year, I first started thinking about my looming thesis exploration. To help me understand what I wanted to explore in a thesis, I compiled fifty questions about design that are important to me. Some are answerable questions, some are rhetorical, some are just silly. The questions resulted in a book and poster as final outcomes.
In evaluating my fifty questions about design, I created an infographic poster and graphed each question. Each dot represents a question. The dot features are determined based on category, indicated by color; content, indicated by dot location; and how important the question is to me, indicated by size. As a visual person, seeing my questions mapped out like this helped me make sense of where my interests lie.
In fall 2020, after a turbulent year, I first started thinking about my looming thesis exploration. To help me understand what I wanted to explore in a thesis, I compiled fifty questions about design that are important to me. Some are answerable questions, some are rhetorical, some are just silly. The questions resulted in a book and poster as final outcomes.
In evaluating my fifty questions about design, I created an infographic poster and graphed each question. Each dot represents a question. The dot features are determined based on category, indicated by color; content, indicated by dot location; and how important the question is to me, indicated by size. As a visual person, seeing my questions mapped out like this helped me make sense of where my interests lie.
Important Design Questions: A Journal
The final outcome of the project resulted in organizing the questions in a journal, categorized into four categories: society, health, ethics, and wellness. Each question has space for me to answer at the end of this year, as a brand new designer, as a designer in 5 years, and as an experienced designer in 15 years.
Thesis Taxonomy
This is a video loop that incorporates all the things I’m interested in within design. Each word flows into the next using repeating words or phrases, since all of these concepts are circulating in my head at the same time.