Design Research Dissertation | Compilation and Reflection

 23 Apr 2026 - 12 July 2026  (Week 1 - Week 14 )
Chan Xiang Lam | 0358400 
Design Research Dissertation  | Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media 

Compilation and Reflection

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TABLE CONTENT   

    1. Module Information Booklet (MIB)

    2. Assignment 1: Draft Dissertation

    3. Assignment 2: Visual Design for E-Publication

    4. Assignment 3: Final Dissertation

    5. Assignment 4: Research for Article Publication

    6. Reflection

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Module Information Booklet (MIB)

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Assignment 1: Draft Dissertation 

Assignment 1: Draft Dissertation PDF

Assignment 1: Turnitin Report

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Assignment  2: Visual Design for E-Publication

Assignment 2: Visual Design for E-Publication PDF

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Assignment  3: Final Dissertation

Assignment 3: Final Dissertation PDF

Assignment 3: Turnitin Report

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Assignment  4: Research for Article Publication

Assignment 4: Research for Article Publication PDF

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Reflection 

In this assignment, I set out to design and complete a full dissertation on the usability of Voice User Interfaces in multilingual environments, and later to adapt that research into a KREATE journal article, a journey that turned out to be the most demanding piece of academic work I have completed. The hardest early lesson was narrowing my problem statement, my first drafts tried to cover linguistic, cultural, and technical angles all at once, and it took several rounds of feedback to focus on user satisfaction specifically.

The three-phase methodology, survey, guideline development, evaluation, taught me to let each phase build on the last rather than treating them as separate exercises. Phase One's messy, mostly-neutral satisfaction data was humbling; Phase Two's guideline development felt like the point the project became constructive rather than just diagnostic; and Phase Three's evaluation, where participants' top concerns matched exactly what the guidelines addressed, made the whole structure feel justified.

Writing the dissertation sharpened my ability to argue rather than summarise, especially in the discussion sections. Adapting it into a journal article afterward taught me something different: that the same research can be told multiple ways, and that choosing one focused contribution, rather than condensing everything, is harder and more valuable than it first appears.

Overall, this assignment taught me to hold a large body of research and reshape it deliberately for different purposes, a skill I expect to carry well beyond this course.