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Thesis 2022

Sept. 2021 - Present

Feb. 17th, 2022

Prototype v1 Reflection

Our first milestone of this semester’s thesis development is our MVP (Minimum Viable Prototype) presentation on 2/17/2022. During this phase, all prototypes are[...]

Feb. 10th, 2022

Minimum Viable Prototype v1

Our first milestone of this semester’s thesis development is our MVP (Minimum Viable Prototype) presentation on 2/17/2022. During this phase, all prototypes are[...]

Feb. 3rd, 2022

Purpose Statement

I’ve been kind of too optimistic on writing the mission statement this week. The process was much more circuitous than I envisioned, especially after[...]

Feb. 3rd, 2022

User Journey + Decision-Making Criteria

Jan. 20th, 2022

Mission Statement

I’ve been kind of too optimistic on writing the mission statement this week. The process was much more circuitous than I envisioned, especially after[...]

Dec. 9th, 2021

Prototype 3.0

Dec. 9th, 2021

Prototype Reflection

Health and wellbeing are an enormous problem area—eating is one part of it. (I keep saying this for every blog I wrote, haha) I am glad that I'm still interested in[...]

Nov. 18th, 2021

Research Plan 2.0

The purpose of this research is to find out how young adults react to the reward system when it assigns them to improve their eating habit.[...]

Nov. 18th, 2021

Prototype 2.0

Nov. 11th, 2021

Prototype 1.0

Nov. 4th, 2021

Hypothesis + Proposal

Eating healthy is a colossal problem area. I found myself struggling to define a problem that I want to help with, a How Might We. After I chatted with Eric,[...]

Oct. 28th, 2021

More Research

Primary Findings: People tend to care less about taste and flavor when they have meals alone. [...]

Oct. 21st, 2021

Assumption Map

Oct. 14th, 2021

Primary + Secondary Research

During this week's research on eating habits and gut health, I have the following questions that I want to find answers: [...]

Oct. 14th, 2021

First Pitch + Feedback

Since this semester begins, I have been working on researching the problem area of mental health and worrying if I should keep exploring this direction. Last week, however, [...]

Oct. 7th, 2021

Research Plan

This research plan mainly focuses on the problem around food healthiness among young adults and existed/possible solutions that help fix the problem. [...]

Sept. 30th, 2021

Thesis Idea 1 x 3

I was kind of too specific about problem area in my brainstorming. It makes me keeping questioning if this is the direction I want to spend a year to develop. Therefore, I set myself back and redid a mind map to[...]

Sept. 23rd, 2021

Initial Research

It was not very easy to start a conversation about mental health with total strangers. So I didn’t get in-depth into the question, such as [...]

Sept. 16th, 2021

Brainstorming

Knowing that I was about to start doing the thesis project always made me excited and anxious. I am excited to create some great and interesting stuff. [...]