Minor Project: Final Compilation & Reflection
Minor Project: Final Compilation & Reflection
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20.4.2026 - 26.7.2026 / Week 1 - Week 14
Dave Christian Moniaga / 0385630
Minor Project / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Final Compilation & Reflection
Table of Contents
Project Journey
Week 1
In the first week, we were given time to create a group that consisted of
3-4 members of no more than two people with the same specialization.
Following that, we are introduced to our client's project and the weekly plan that we would try to achieve in this
module.
The project that we were assigned to is called "Caregiver First Aid". To start, we did some research on patient's with chronic illness,
especially Alzheimer's including some draft questions that will be used for
the interview.
Fig 1.1 Project brief for "Caregiver First Aid"
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| Fig 1.2 Group 6's members and details |
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| Fig 1.3 My draft questions for caregivers and patients |
Week 2
This week we met our client, Dr. Mugilarasi Arasarethinam, and got a more
detailed brief of the project, the problem, the target, and our expected
solution. To summarize, our group is tasked to create a fast acting solution
or tool that helps to relieve issues faced by family caregiver's issues when
dealing with their patient.
With a more focused explanation, we changed and refined our questions to
focus on getting information and suggestions for the caregiver
themselves.
 
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| Fig 2.1 Notes taken from the client's suggestion and my refined questions for caregiver |
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| Fig 2.2 Finalized questions for caregiver |
Week 3
As we have refined our interview questions, we then conducted interviews
with willing family caregivers about our topic. Each of us conducted one
interview with family caregivers of different backgrounds and have received
a signed consent from from each of them.
Transcripts for each interview were also made which would later on be used
to analyze for findings in our research.
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| Fig Target users |
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| Fig 3.2 The four family caregivers we interviewed |
Week 4
We are informed that we also need to include a secondary target group aside
from family caregivers. We then chose to focus on professional caregivers,
which are caregivers who have had training and are hired for this line of
work.
We then extracted important points from each interview transcript to create
a list of sticky notes of each interviewee.
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| Fig 4.2 The three professional caregivers we interviewed |
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| Fig 4.3 Sticky notes of important information from the transcription |
Week 5
In this week, we are created our Affinity Diagrams of our target groups.
Taking all of the sticky notes and separated them into groups of clustered
data. We did this for each of the target groups; family caregivers and
professional caregivers.
At this stage, we are also given the time to craft a few problem statements
and "How Might We" formulas based on the insights that we have gathered
through our data and findings.
 
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| Fig 5.1 Affinity diagram for family caregivers and professional caregivers |
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| Fig 5.2 Our problem statements and "How Might We" statements |
Week 6
Moving past our user research, we have started to move towards out ideation
stage which involves us to think and craft ideas that could be used as a
tool to help our target audience.
As a class exercise, we are utilizing one of the ideation techniques called
Crazy 8's. In this method, we take a piece of paper and create eight
sections from it (could also be 2 paper into fours for bigger space) and
fill up those spaces with eight ideas in 8 minutes.
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| Fig 6.2 My sketches from our Crazy 8's exercise in class |
Week 7
We didn't have class this week as it was a public holiday, instead we
decided to do an online meeting instead between our group members. Each of
us gave our ideas based on our finalized problem statement.
During the discussion, we decided on a combination of a digital device with
a website for accessibility. The device was designed in the form of a watch
and I did several quick sketches to show my groupmates.
We specifically chose to implement colors that are based on our research of
what would ease up stress and bring a happier mood.
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| Fig 7.1 Our online discussion where we brainstorm our ideation phase |
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| Fig 7.2 My digital sketches of the watch during the discussion |
Week 8
This week was our presentation where we give our first proposal &
research of our ideas. We also finally came up with our caregiver support's name which is "Dear
Caregiver".
Based on the feedback from the lecturer and the client, we had to give a
more convincing proof on why our focus leans more into providing information
and communication, at the same time we also have to provide a more solid
background on how this idea can be implemented into the real world. From
there, we created a Google Form for our target audience that listed
questions required to solidify our ideas.
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| Fig 8.1 Our chosen prototype name, ideation, and moodboard |
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| Fig 8.2 Our group's proposal presentation to the client |
 
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| Fig 8.3 Some design iteration question that will be turned into a Google feedback form |
Week 10
As we received the answers from our Google feedback form questions made
last week, we finally gathered all of the necessary information and put the
answer summary in our FigJam board.
In class, we moved on to creating our scenarios and usability goals for
"Dear Caregiver". Each of our members constructed a detailed view into the
eyes of our User Persona, Uncle Chen. After finalizing our scenario, we
listed down the tasks that users need to achieve for the testing on the
watch and website including the performance measures on what is considered a
fail or success based on the time and task completion.
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| Fig 9.1 Summary of answers based from the interviewee feedback form |
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| Fig 9.2 Our scenarios and tasks made for user testing based on the watch and website |
Week 11
Before online consultation this week, we have created some wireframes and
concept designs for the website and watch. Unfortunately we have yet to
start on our prototype as we also have some important questions; whether we
need to create a real working website and watch app or is a Figma prototype
for both viable enough.
The feedback we got during this stage was to construct a user flow and site
map for our website and watch first before continuing to develop our designs
as there are still a lot of missing important information such as
navigation, UI layout, and usability features. The user icons that we chose
also looked a bit childish which needed a redesign.
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| Fig 10.1 Concept designs for the brand's logo, website, and watch |
Week 12
Based on the feedback from last week, me and Kai Xuan constructed the user
flow and the site map that includes all of the needed features of the watch
and website. This way, we have a guide to refer to when creating the
prototype.
For this week's consultation, Dhina and I have created the watch's first
prototype. The watch itself includes all of the necessary information that
is shown in the sitemap. Kai Xuan and Li Wen created the website redesign concept alongside the
website's avatar redesign.
The feedback we got from the consultation is to set a more suitable
dimension for the watch, something more similar to existing smart watches,
add button onboarding, interactive heart rate indicator, and also to reword
the avatars again to be more mature.
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| Fig 11.1 User flow based on our user persona, Uncle Chen |
 
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| The 11.2 Sitemap planning for both the watch and website |
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| Fig 11.3 The first watch prototype |
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| Fig 11.4 Website redesign and website avatar ideation |
Week 13
This week, our goal is to conduct the user testing as soon as possible so
that we may make changes before our presentation. During class, we presented
our working website and watch that Dhina and I have made.
From the feedback, the watch itself is already good and is ready to be used
for the testing phase. Though for the website, there are some changes that
need to be done first; mainly the landing page for visitors has to be
different from the page that is accessed by logged in users and to make the
overall pages more closer to the warmth feeling that we are trying to
achieve.
After quickly refining it more, we sent the prototype for testing by Li Wen
and Kai Xuan. The user testing included the usability goals and tasks from
week 10 that has been refined to match our prototype. The consented
participants also filled in a satisfaction form that will be used for
feedback also when refining the website and watch.
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| Fig 12.1 Final watch Figma prototype |
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| Fig 12.2 Final website Figma prototype |
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| Fig 12.3 Website avatar final redesign |
 
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| Fig 12.4 Satisfaction survey for user testing & things to improve |
Week 14
As this week is our final presentation, we took time to refine our watch
and website based on our user testing. At the same time we also created
our final slides which include every piece of information that was needed
based on the requirements for our presentation. Before the actual day, we
also rehearsed multiple times online to make sure our timing was under 15
minutes as that was the given amount.
After the presentation itself, it seems that the Dr. Mugil was satisfied
with our solution of "Dear Caregiver". We also provided extra comments and
showcased our prototypes live which helped answer some of the client's questions. Aside from that, we still had a few notes of feedback from Dr. Wong to refine our slides
presentation, mainly to rework the wording of our solution and also to
include all of the details of our user testing.
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| Fig Our group presenting our final presentation to Dr. Mugil and Dr. Wong |
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| Fig Bar charts added to the final presentation as refinement |
Final Presentation Slides
Caregiver First Aid_Group 6_Final
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