Minor Project

22.09.2025 - 31.12.2025 / Week 1 — Week 15

Chan Zhi-Ren Zenndan / 0369069

Minor Project / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Project Timeline

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1. Instructions

Figure 1.0 Module Information Booklet

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2. Project Timeline

Week 1 (22/09/25)

We met in class and formed our project group. Each group was allowed a maximum of seven members, with no more than two people from each specialisation. Our group consisted of five members, including two from Entertainment Design, two from UI/UX Design, and one from Graphic Design.

Week 2 (29/09/25)

This week’s session was conducted online at 9 P.M. We discussed the project themes we were interested in pursuing through our WhatsApp group. As our initial theme was already taken, we decided to work on the topic of period poverty.

Week 3 (6/10/25)

This week, we had our first physical client meeting with Dr. Chong Wei Ying. She briefed us on the project requirements and conducted a Q&A session with the class.

Week 4 (13/10/25)

We started brainstorming questions for our interviews and compiled them into a google document. Link to the google document below: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lYkljQEU4xHlrTZ_f3FiYDJkbeRj4sS0Cfqa6RbL7WE/edit?usp=drivesdk

Each group member was tasked to interview one person each and then transcribe the interviews and pull out some key findings. Justin and Edgar would focus on male university students while Shu En and Samuel would focus on female university students. Zenndan initially interviewed his father but later on we scrapped that as we wanted to focus more on university students as our target. 

Week 5 (20/10/25)

We spent this week mostly finishing up transcribing and analyzing our interviews and got started on empathy mapping and the affinity diagram in preparation for our proposal.

Week 6 (27/10/25)

For this week we had an online consultation with Dr. Wong on Teams. She looked through our FigJam board and gave some feedback regarding our empathy mapping and affinity diagrams as well as guidance on how to do our proposal presentation slides. We also had a lot of questions on how a user persona worked so Dr. Wong helped us out in that area too.

Fig 2.0 Empathy mapping.

Week 7 (3/11/25)

In week 7, we conducted the Crazy 8 ideation session, where we had to quickly draw concepts related to our minor project in under 8 minutes. This forced us to generate ideas spontaneously without much overthinking. This allowed us to form several ideas that we could use for our testing stage later on. Notably, the ideas drawn by Samuel, Shu En, and Zenndan were the ones that align best with the final outcome.

Week 8 (10/11/25)

This week was a self-directed learning week where we polished the ideas we had to prepare for our presentation. We also started working on our powerpoint by compiling all the materials we needed in Canva, and used a custom red theme so it matches our topic.

Week 9 (17/11/25)

As this week was our presentation week, we quickly finalized our powerpoint and practiced our parts individually. After the presentation, we received feedback on our results, including what ideas we could use for our testing stage. We came to the decision of the second idea, setting up a physical booth and merchandise.

Week 10 (24/11/25)

This week, Dr. Wong explains about understanding the purpose of testing our prototype and identifying the types of testing for user feedback. User testing is really helpful and essential information from our users about why and how they will use our product.

Week 11 (1/12/25)

We divided up several tasks, starting from finding a shop for a sticker printer, designing for the mascot, sticker and booth, making the questions pre and post after playing the ‘period’ pong.

Week 12 (8/12/25)

This week is online so we consulted with Dr. Wong about planning our booth starting from what activities we will do and the reward after they visit our booth.

Week 13 (15/12/25)

We finally opened up the booth that we have planned for 2+ weeks on week 13. The booth is open for 3 days, starting from Monday to Wednesday, from 9AM to 4PM. Before D-day, we made a schedule for when we can be present at the booth. Here is the schedule that we have agreed on.

MON:

shu en: 9-4

sam: 12-4

edgar: 12-4

zen: 9-12

justin: 9-4

TUE:

shu en: 9-2

sam: 1-4

edgar: 1-4

zen: 9-12

justin: 12-2

WED:

shu en: 12-4

sam: 9-2

edgar: 9-2

zen: 9-12

justin: 12-4

DAY 1

On day 1, the booth was opened up by Zenndan, Shu En, and Justin, since Sam and Edgar still have classes to attend. After class ends Sam and Edgar immediately rushed to campus to help. Day 1 was pretty tiring since the weather was quite hot, and people kept on ignoring our booth. However, after we tried to convince people to come to our booth, we could finally gather enough people to come to our booth. We were able to gather a total of 32 people on the first day, and the reception for our booth was mostly positive.

Fig 2.1 Day 1, opening day.

We closed the booth around 4PM, thinking to ourselves that we did a quite decent job for the first day.

DAY 2

On day 2, only Shu En and Zenndan were able to open up the booth, since the rest of the group had morning classes to attend. We honestly don’t really feel as exhausted on day 2, mainly because we have somewhat adapted to the pressure on day 1. To top that, Dr. Wong was able to visit our booth, and we got the chance to take a group photo with her!

Fig 2.2 Day 2, Dr. Wong dropped by our booth.

We wrapped up the booth with a total of 60 participants. We were quite proud of the outcome since things are going pretty smoothly.

DAY 3

On the last day for our booth, we did not really have any expectations, since we had collected enough participants from the last 2 days. So, we decided to close the booth a little bit earlier than before.

The booth was opened by Sam, Edgar, and Zenndan. This day was pretty chill since there were not many people coming to our booth. The weather is also nice, it's a little bit rainy, which makes the air around campus breezy.

Fig 2.3 Day 3, short session.

We decided to end the booth after we ran out of prizes. This day, we gathered 15 participants which gave us a total of 75 participants.

Week 14 (22/12/25)

This week, we did preparations for our presentation. Firstly, we started by doing data analysis on the slides we were using for the presentation.

Fig 2.4 Preparing data analysis for presentation.

We also made several adjustments for our FigJam board, like writing down our prototype and testing, while also adding additional information from the data collection from the booth activities.

Week 15 (29/12/25)

For our final week, we did our presentation which was scheduled for December 29th. The presentation was good overall but we were given a few minor feedbacks such as adding the comparisons and percentages for only the male demographic since our project focuses more on men.

Fig 2.5 Finalizing our FigJam.

All in all, we managed to finish our task on time.

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3. Reflection

Working on this project over the semester was a meaningful and enjoyable experience. As a group, we explored the topic of period poverty and developed an interactive booth that focused on increasing awareness, particularly among male university students. The process helped me better understand how design thinking works in practice, from early research and empathy work to turning ideas into a real-world experience. Collaborating with my teammates taught me the importance of communication, flexibility, and supporting one another throughout different stages of the project. Seeing how our concept came together as a team and how participants engaged with our booth was rewarding, especially knowing that the project sparked conversations around a topic that is often overlooked. Overall, this project strengthened my appreciation for teamwork and reinforced how design can be used as a tool to educate, engage, and create social awareness in a simple but impactful way.

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