I am an
and I do believe that
empathy is the best policy to improve the world.
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I am
劉 家 欣 Liu, Jia-Xin National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Department of design
Experience 2015 2016 2016 2017
2017
2018 2018
Study at NTUST Design Department
46th World Skill competition - Graphic
Design Vice national player
Intern at Agua Design - Social design Intern at Summer code - Advertising
Joined Power of Asian Design Workshop Product Design group
Intern at NOVA Design - Product design School in Vietnam - Art intern Teacher
About me
Interdisciplinary
What I Deeply love in these discipline I am Liu, Jia-Xin, from Taiwan, majoring
in design at Taiwan national university of
science and technology. Since the design is a really broad domain, I am not only
immersed on my major- product design but also engaging the courses related to user
experience and visual design. I found that the most fascinating part of the design is
not about which types of great designer I am going to be, it is about doing what’s called
‘suitable’ design through research, analysis, and experiments to make the world better.
❶ Product Design
Protoytping / market analyzing human-centered / Problem solving
❷ Experience Design
User research / Public behaviours Critical thinking / Collaborating real time Focus on social issue
❸ Visual Design
Creative thinking / Visual experiements
❹ Teacher Training
Educational & Counseling psychology Human-developmant psychology
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TABLE OF CONTENTS VISUAL D E S I G N
EXPERIENCE D E S I G N PRODUCT D E S I G N
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VISUAL D ES I G N 01
Wordwave Festival identity
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Objective & Subjective
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Herbert Matter zine
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Time _ 2018.01
Design Subject _ Activity Identity Material _ Composite
Company _ assignment_ Wordwave Festival
Wordwave Festivla Identity
The goal of the activity is to promote reading and make everybody immerse in books. The entrepreneur will invite celebrities to share the book with the audience.After a lot of analyze of information, I decide to focus on difference of the interpretation between the reader and author.
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ACTIVITY IDENTITY
VISUAL
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How to visualize The funny difference of interpretation?
We first tried to use calligraphy to Interpret the shape of the Chinese character. We extract some key concepts for the preparation for the next experiments.
Color block
Line
Blur
Geometry
Unreadable
Distort
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Using scanner to make the graphics variable.
I try to scan books and move it random while scanning. The outcome is random either. This represent the various of translations between literature and reader. Although the content is the same, every person will have different, unique interpretation after reading.
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Design Details
Tickets Design ( Full, Student, Discount, Group, Early bird)
VISUAL
DESIGN
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Design Details
01 / tickets and postcards 02 / application items
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Design Details
01 / advertisement board
02 / identification bracelet 03 / identification
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Time _ 2017.06
Design Subject _ Editorial Design Material _ Composite
Company _ assignment_ zine
Herber t Matter Zine
The zine introduces the masterpieces of Herbert Matter. The main purpose of his works is inviting people to learn from his style and use their own visual language to interpret his work.
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Zine Design
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Analyze the background of Herbert Matter
Photo - Cut & Paste
Typography
Overlapping
The dark room of photography
Image source : http://herbertmatter.org/ (Herbert Matter official website) http://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/photographic-darkrooms-london
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The visua experenments aim for extract Herbert Matter's visual langage
Photo - Cut & Paste Color - Black & red orange Represent dark room Overlapping - transparent paper Typography ( Part of experiements)
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Concept
The idea for the cover actually came from the darkroom photography technique in which the photographers use a red light in the darkroom when developing black and white film.
The inner part used the concept of cut and paste, typography, and overlapping to reinterpret Matter’s visual language. In the final part of this zine, not only layout and graphics were applied to show Matter’s style but other materials were also used to generate the visual experience from his masterpieces.
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Pages overview p.1-p.18
p.2-3
p.4-5
p.7-8
p.9-10
p.13-14
p.15-16
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p.5-6
p.7-8
p.11-12
p.11-12
p.17-18
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Time _ 2018.09
Design Subject _ Poster Design Tools _ Photoshop, Illustrator
Company _ #assignment_ objective/subjective
Objective / Subjective Challenge I attend MOE scholarship competition in summer, 2018. Teacher Ann Morris, professor in Pratt Institute, bring an intoxicating lesson design philosophy- deeply affect my life.
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Objective & Subjective
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Visual experiments
In order to interpret the quote, we first need to simplify the meaning and extract the key concept of it. The words we choose to stands for the whole quote is 'mindfulness'.
Objective Subjective
How to interpret the quote in Objective & Subjective ways The debate, a book of the perspective of two design giants, contains a lot of clues of how people view things and how designer do things.
Blur - passing time
Circle - Focus on center
Concentration - space for crrent time
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Object - visualize passing time
Space for breathe
Concentrate
Mindfulness
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Objective interpretation
To interpret the quote in an objective way, which means without personal experience and emotion. Using blur typography to represent previous and future time, and only make part of 'present moment' clear. The reason of partly clear of the words is that the present moment is short and fastly passed.
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Subjective interpretation
The subjective poster can be adding clear personal emotion. we can use a metaphor or a relative object to represent the concept. I use the movement of eyes blink to demonstrate time and only use pure white in 'present moment'. It means all you need to focus on is the present moment.
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E XP E R IE NC E D ES I G N 01 02
Braind roomer
Actions lead connection
Time _ 2018.06
Design Subject _ Service design Material _ App
Company _ assignment_ Brain Roomer
App for potential group of dematia
Mild cognitive impairment, MCI in short, is a transitional phase between normal cognitive function and mild dementia. We aim to reverse the negative condition of MCI and also aid healthy elder to prevent getting the symptom.
Positioning / Research / Interview / Developing / Visualize
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An app for dementia patients
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Reseach of Dementia
We want ro resolve the problem that elder often forgets small things in daily life, we try to figure out their both physical and mental condition. Finally, we found that the group of MCI, mild cognitive impairment, is an interesting subject linked with memory.
The most interesting part of MCI is that it is the negative situation is able to be reversed if the elder willing to do an effort on it. The diagram above is describing the process of this disorder.
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Expert Interview
In order to know the real situation of the elder's mental situation and physical conditions, we interviewed Psychological counselor and psychiatrist. It is clear that there is two polarize point of views toward dementia between the two domains.
Advice from Psychiatrist
Advice from Psychological counselor
Entering the MCI stage is like spending his original brain energy (loss of cognitive function and memory). Thinking about how to make him accumulate his deposits in life? It is suggested made the elder keep jotting down their daily life can and asking them to recall their memory can stimulate their brain.
The elder at 60 usually starts forgetting things. Such as forgetting whether they already brush teeth or not. The memory disappears for just a few seconds but comes back later. The uncertain life of the elder may lead then into anxiety mood. They concern about aging, poor physical condition and other problems trigger moods fluctuation. Moreover, lack of activities may also make a negative effect on the body and mental health.
Competitive Products
According to the literature, daily simple mental training, recording of life, and continuous training assist prevent dementia. Therefore, we search in two directions, "brain training" and "healthy habits". Also, we focus on the app which emphasizes health/body improvements.
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Design policy & Brainstorming
After defining the position and markets. We start to conceive our product structure and form. Listing them down and make a clear demonstration of our function and reach the ultimate goal, prevent healthy elder getting dementia.
Information & Function map
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Interface Design
Selected Pages
Demo video on Youtube!
Welcome Page
Regualtion
Home Page
Game (application)
Game (memorize part)
Game (optional)
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Enter personal info
Back to home page
appliance failure
go to tool box
Game (Introduction)
find suitable tool (fail)
find suitable tool (correct)
repair record
Game (complete)
collect creature
inforamtion of creature
function in hamburger
Time _ 2018.06
Design Subject _ Triangulating creed Company _ assignment
Actions lead connections
The aim of this project is to use the memories and supporting documentation to enunciate a personal creed. Actions lead connection is a core of one of my photo with my friends. Using critical thinking and analytical strategy, we create an interactive device at the bus stop to connect the strangers.
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Triangulating Creed
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Finding my own creed
The creed was founded in my old photo with my friends. Once we traveled in Keelung city, my best friend, who is 182 cm tall, squats when taking a selfie with me. I think the action she takes is for making everyone fin into the scene. For me, this action creates the connection and build up the trust.
social bonding collaboration
sharing
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Supporting arguments
After defining my own creed, it is important to find different quotes of similar value from other great men. It not only serves as a supporting function but also provides more details about my creed.
Information source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963721410370131
How to convey the creed?
I want to design a trigger, which can provoke the action and build up the connection, in a public environment.
An action that can't be done alone. (Do an activity together) +
A sudden dramatic environmental change. (sound / smell / position etc.)
An traditional bus stop. Since it have a lots of distractions in one small chamber, the passenger will not focus on each other.
An interactive bus stop, which can make a sudden fun reaction with passengers.
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Service process
The creative bus stop shows the instruction for the user on the LCD screen and make people interact with others.
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P R OD UCT D ES I G N 01
Alvix - Drone for extreme sports
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Uflo - Air cleaner
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CRO_X - Freely Stool
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Time _ 2016.06
Design Subject _ Product Design Material _ Composite
Co-worker_ Lian-Yu-Lin
A Drone for sport player
This drone is specially designed for extreme sport players. The main function of this drone is to monitor the user’s safety. The system of safety monitor connects the receiver, just like a sport watch worn on the user’s wrist and acquire information about the body immediately.
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Drone Design
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If the user is in emergency, the receiver will send the alert to the drone and the drone will make sound to inform the others. Since it is designed for extreme sport players, the drone must bear a lot of frictions and bumps. We redesign the structure of the drone to enhance its endurance to collision and also make it easy to take out.
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01
02
Design Details
01 / product detaila ideation 02 / random ideation
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The final form of the drone is a cylinder divided vertically into three part. The top part is camera lens, the middle part is the propeller, and the bottom is the case protecting the whole parts of the drone.
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Modeling integrity / Crashworthiness Anti-collision / Landing stability
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Designer / Liu, Jia-Xin / Lien, Yu-Ling
concept design / user research / ideation/ modleing/ prototyping
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Time _ 2017.08
Design Subject _ product design Material _ Composite
Company _ assignment_ stools
Cro-x freely stools
The fundamental concept of this project is 'Freedom'. Comparison to chairs, stools owns the ability to have more changes, because of it has no restriction on its using direction. I try to use the most basic structure to define the new shape of stool.
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furniture Design
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User Research
In order to have a mutual standard of 'Good Stool' in our team, we design an experiment to figure out this issue. Proper height, comfortable size, the steps of people sit on a stool, are all the factors we consider in this paper.
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The basic function research -
To have a mutual standard of a 'Good Stool'.
1. Most of the people cover about 80% of a chair when sitting on it.
2. According to the collected information, the most suitable radius of the stool is 175mm-150mm. 3. According to human factors, the most comfortable height of stool is 340 mm-370mm.
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Chair
Stool
Structure
Sketches
Chairs have 'chair back', which set a limitation of using situation. However, high adaptive is the feature of stools. The user can move freely without restrictions. But traditional stools not always focus on both function and appearance.
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Development 01
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The most basic structure
(Top surface) ďź‹ (Chair legs)These are the jigsaws I use to construct this product. The coming chapter going to shows product's development.
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Structure Introduction
Using the geometric method to calculate the stable structure.
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Time _ 2017.08
Design Subject _ product design Material _ Composite
Company _ assignment_ purifier
Minimize Purifier
Uflo+ is a minimize air purifier focus on cleaning small space surrounding a person. Especially on the working platform and desks. The height of the vent approximately the same with breath system when you sit down. Compare to traditional purifier, Uflo+ can make the users feel the clean air more directly and brings the users more sense of accompanying.
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Product Design
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Function & Evironment analyze
Waiting for the computer to open, I picked up the paper towel and wiped it slightly to clean up the dust from my last job. It's like a job opening ceremony. After wiping, I turned on the lamp and saw the shadow of falling dust. After the dust settled, I finally able to work with peace of mind.
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Demands |
1. A lot of dust, but there is no place for air cleaners!
2. Requires cleanliness and good air conditions on the desktop. 3. Simply clean up before work, like the opening ceremony.
Proposal |
Do we really need to improve the large space in order to achieve a good cleansing effect? Ex: Can it concentrate on filtering the space in use?
Ex: Can it change the organization and become a clean expert? Ex: Can it provide more convenient, intuitive and comfortable cleaning indicators?
Direction
Crv of flow
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A
Concept
B
The idea of the product appearance is mainly from the shape of fluent trace of air flow. How to simplify the minimize shape and make the shape more friendly for the users is the major concern in this project.
Th basic structure In order to bring the direct feeling of air flow to the user, I pick two pictures above and observe their feature. Two important elements, the direction of flow in picture A and fluent shape of 'flow' in picture B, make the concept born.
(2 vents) ďź‹ (hollow shape)
These are the jigsaws I use to construct this product. The coming chapter going to shows product's development.
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Sketches
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Motor + Fan
HEPA Filter
Water bottle
Shaping
This is a experiment of the outlooking of the product. Tying to figure out the 3D shape in 2D sketches.
Plastic bottle
Size Define
Ideal Size
To get the most comfortable size of purifier for the user, we grab some vertical objects which are common on the desk to make a comparsion.
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3D Modeling
Personal Air purifier
PRODUCT DESIGN
Appliance Design 2018
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Your air folw Your air purifier
Ideation
The idea of the product appearance is mainly from the shape of fluent trace of air flow. How to simplify the minimize shape and make the shape more friendly for the users is the major concern in this project.
Function
Uflo+ is a minimize air purifier focus on cleaning small space surrounding a person. Especially on the working platform and desks. The height of the vent approximately the same with breath system when you sit down.Compare to traditonal purifier, Uflo+ can make the users feel the clean air more directly and brings the users more sense of accompany.
Using Situations
Instructions The meaning of lights colors. Perfect condition of the filter. Oridnary condition of the filter. (chosen)
Focus on own working space
Open to change the filter.
Need to change the filter.