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I am an

and I do believe that

empathy is the best policy to improve the world.


2019 Liu, Jia-Xin PROTFOLIO

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


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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)


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DESIGN

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VISUAL DESIGN 17

01

02

Design Details

01 / tickets and postcards 02 / application items


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01

02 03

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


VISUAL DESIGN 23

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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VISUAL DESIGN 25

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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EXPERIENCE DESIGN 37

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.


EXPERIENCE DESIGN 41

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.


EXPERIENCE DESIGN 43

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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DESIGN

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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.


EXPERIENCE DESIGN 53

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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PRODUCT DESIGN 57

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.


PRODUCT DESIGN 61

01

02

Design Details

01 / product detaila ideation 02 / random ideation


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PRODUCT DESIGN 63

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.


PRODUCT DESIGN

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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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PRODUCT DESIGN 81

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.







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