Design Research Dissertation // Final Compilation

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3/4/2023 - 8/7/2023 / Week 1 - Week 14

Trinity Wong Ka Yi / 0348778
Design Research Dissertation / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Final Compilation

INSTRUCTIONS

FINAL SUBMISSIONS

Assignment 1: Dissertation Draft
Week 1 - 7



Assignment 2: Final Dissertation (Turnitin Report)
Week 8 - 11


Assignment 3: Visual Design Publication
Week 8 - 11




Assignment 4: Research For Publication
Week 12 - 14


FEEDBACK

Week 2
  • Use primary and secondary research to build the matrix
  • Add introduction
  • Introduce reader to chocolate packaging
  • Introduce to chocolate categories
  • End intro with how design elements impact choc packing
  • "Will attempt to answer the research question in 3 ways"
  • Can use critical review as primary research
  • Start on intro and and influence for week 2
  • Start selecting visuals
Week 3
  • Remember to add citations
  • Can use websites as ref but mind the reliablity
  • Research carob if theres relevance
  • Add brief intro to cacao vs cocoa
  • Change some words
  • Add pic for each choc category
  • Add closing for introduction
  • Swap choc cat and design elements as subsection
  • Add section 1 to 4 by Week 5
  • Remove 5.4 correlation
  • Start structuring the research paper
  • Finish 5.2 by next week
Week 4
N/A

Week 5
N/A

Week 6
  • restructure literature review
  • restructure research design
  • change everything to past tense
  • justify everything and not point form
  • add screenshot of quetionairre in appendix
  • add some visuals
  • add real example for the green for sustainability
  • add real example for the script font found in premium
  • demonstrate and explain by using examples
  • summarize what question 4 is about, dont just say question 4
  • reword question 4 into the discussion
  • use more words to explain the numerical data because it doesnt make sense
  • try to finish conclusion
  • add project recommendations (how your research can support a project)
Week 7
  • in 5.3 intro, add "this part aims to answer the research question of"
  • expand more on the most significant designelement of each category
  • bring back the idea of why they can be the most significant
  • like "as mentioned in 5.2," then elaborate
  • show exmaples besides from the ones in the study
  • "based on the researcher's own observation, as seen in figxx, this shows that.., which indicates..."
  • can choose put extra examples in 5.3 or bring back from 5.2
Week 10
N/A

Week 9
  • go with idea 2, the premium one
  • colour palette and font choice is suitable, can go with that theme
Week 10
N/A

Week 11
  • go with the last cover but change the layout placement like the second layout and - add the author sticker thing, layout looks fine so far
  • start looking for visuals to add in
Week 12
  • Layout looks fine
  • Can shift the screenshots for distribution method to appendix if needed.
  • Need to start with the article already.
Week 13
  • Minor changes to formatting and phrasing
  • Include images
  • Add 1-2 more keywords
  • Methodology: Cite reason for brands chosen, explain each section of questionnaire and what they are for, explain he questions and the justification.
  • Discussion: Discuss by choc categories, mention most significant finding about each category and discuss that
  • Reference: Only cite those used in this Kreate article.

REFLECTION

Experience
After two semesters, I can finally stop research writing! It has been quite a long journey to finally get our study done and I learned so much about how to effectively conduct research to make it as accurate as possible. Honestly, after DRM, I wanted to change my topic as I was not excited about it anymore because 1) I was kinda sick of looking at chocolate packaging, 2) the topic is so niche that it is hard to find relevant papers to my topic. However, I hung on and continued writing because we were already halfway there and there was no point turning back. In the end, I'm satisfied with how my paper turned out. Could it be done better? Definitely, but my brain was honestly dying every time I opened my Google Docs file so it's a miracle I finished it on time. As much as I would love to never write a dissertation again, I am aware that we always have to do research before designing and it is therefore inevitable in the end. Overall, I'm still glad I went through this module.

Observation
As mentioned above, I definitely learned a lot on how to effectively conduct research as there was a lot of planning and justification to be done beforehand. When it came to discussion, there was also a lot of thinking to be done on how to get the point forward and not accidentally beat around the bush. I realized since majority of our classes were 1-to-1, we never got to see each other's papers unless we asked each other about it or took their survey. Hence, when we had our first combined class for our Ebook cover, that was when I realized how different all our topics were and it was interesting to finally see how they tried to interpret it into book cover too.

Findings
I would list down all my references here as a joke but by reading all those papers (some not completely), I actually learned a lot of things even outside of the chocolate situation. There was so much research being done that I was not even aware of the need for such research. In the end, I learned a lot about the impact of design elements in general and also in food packaging specifically. It was sometimes frustrating when I was not given access to read some papers that I thought might help me, so I ended up using ChatGPT and Google's Bard to help me look for research papers with public access so I would not need to waste 2309495 hours looking for them.

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