Design Research Methodology / Proposal
Week1 - Week4 30/08/2022 - 20/09/2022
Riko Matsuyama 0351470
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Instructions
Lecture
During this module, we have to do one thing. Major one thing is to identify a research area that your passion about and the topic that you want to find out more about. Conduct research about it. 1,2,3,4 → one component.
Going step by step to get more details. To understand your research topic. To find a solution for it.
Start thinking about the possible topic that may interest.
Week1
WHAT is research?
1. the systematic and creative investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
2. increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.
3. research is the pursuit of knowledge.
4. Student research is self-directed work in which students from all areas of study work individually or as part of a team to explore issues of interest to them.
5. Students and faculty mentors work together to design and implement a
research, scholarly, or creative project and then
communicate the results to others.
WHY should I do research?
1. Research expands understanding and knowledge of your academic field.
2. It defines your academic, career, and personal interests.
3. You establish valuable connections with faculty.
4.You gain academic experiences that help expand your resume, such as presenting at research conferences, publishing, and working with a research team.
5. You develop critical thinking, leadership, time management, and communication skills.
6. You get to explore research techniques.
HOW should I start?
1. Identify your field of interest. You might become curious about more than one topic through your courses, current events, or by reflecting on things that appeal to you. Reading up writings in some current design magazines might help too.
2. After you have selected your field of interest/topic, delve into further research about it to establish an area (research problem) where you are interested to conduct research about.
3. Write a bit more extensively about the research problem in the form of a statement.
4. Formulate a research question that is derived from the research problem.
5. Identify research objective(s) that you would like to achieve from conducting this research,
The research problem
Week2
Problem statement, Research question, Research objective
Problem statement, Research question, Research objective
Writing a good research question means you have something you want to study. Let's say you're interested in the effects of television. We will examine the steps and then look at how you could write a research question.
1. Specify your specific concern or issue
2. Decide what you want to know about the specific concern or issue
3. Turn what you want to know and the specific concern into a question
4. Ensure that the question is answerable
5. Check to make sure the question is not too broad or too narrow
This is the basic process in writing a research question. Writing a good question will result in a better research project.
Problem statement, Research question, Research
In general, research objectives describe what we expect to achieve by a project. Research objectives may be linked with a hypothesis or used as a statement of purpose in a study that does not have a hypothesis.
Even if the nature of the research has not been clear to the layperson from the hypotheses, s/he should be able to understand the research from the objectives.
Hypothesis?
A hypothesis is a tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables. It is a specific, testable prediction about what you expect to happen in a study.
For example, a study designed to look at the relationship between sleep deprivation and test performance might have a hypothesis that states, "This study is designed to assess the hypothesis that sleep-deprived people will perform worse on a test than individuals who are not sleep deprived."
Remember, a hypothesis does not have to be correct. While the hypothesis predicts what the researchers expect to see, the goal of the research is to determine whether this guess is right or wrong. When conducting an experiment, researchers might explore a number of factors to determine which ones might contribute to the ultimate outcome.
The research problem
I decided a topic. Topic: Universal design and Graphic design
Week 2 feedback
Your research topic is like a big umbrella. Universal design is a too wide topic. What you need to think about >> What about universal design that you want to research about / Is there focus research that you conduct in this investigation / What is it that you want to look into a universal design / Need to research that is more related to my area of graphic design. You need to explain why you chose this topic. And it is important to research it in depth. The research problem is also important.
Week 3 feedback
You could be more applicable. If you pick an area where you can study how universal design has met the design beneficial to users. You have to pick a product of graphic design that users successful universal design. Don't use braille blocks, voice guidance, or automatic doors, these are all economic design. Which reaches more product design and industrial design, but remember working with graphic design in this module. You must pick an item under graphic design that apprise universal design principles. Your research is just how universal design applies to that. Such as poster design and website design. How it creates allows people to navigate websites successfully. Application of typeface / Application of design principal / Images how apply properly flexible. This kind of problem statement is when you have a problem that you want to solve. But because yours problem is no problem you want to solve. Studying how universal design helps and have better navigation of the website. Your whole idea is just to explain or study good website design will include the concept of universal design to it. So that's one way you write a problem statement. it's an interesting topic so maybe once you apply. " how universal design helps us in our lives" is too wide > > mainly industrial design and architecture. Information is clean, directly, applies 7 principal designs (6,7 talking about product design) You may say that universal design is also in a way going around side, graphic design as a visual communication approach.
Week 4 feedback
How universal design applies to users. You want to study whether its effectiveness impact. I think in the process of doing a study you can bring in a little bit of comparison. If you want to bring out the strength of universal design that's properly applied in significant websites, you may wanna show and compare to websites that don't utilize universal design. You may want to end the rationale by saying, therefore, you are interested in this research about the importance and effects of a universal design of websites. (Statement) ex) charity, business websites > not supposed to excite us / Website supposed to create engagement. So this sentence needs to be reworded. You have to talk about so many good universal designs and their importance for website designs. When you write the end part, you should indicate what you going to do. you should reflect research problem.
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