NUS-ISS Winter 2024

Designing to Improve Exercising Routine for Working Professionals

Summary

Timeline

4 Months

role

Research Intern @Digital Innovation & Design team

process

User Research

User Experience Design

Service Design

In winter 2024, I got the opportunity to intern at National University Singapore - Institute of Systems Science. My main tasks involved 2 aspects: Conducting research for the department & Designing for course facilitation.

During the 4 months, I took the initiatives to pick up some projects that I think is beneficial to my own career development and the company.

Work
Summary

Work Summary

Designed mobile application for UX Class to improve excising routine for working professional

As part of the course project, I used my work for each stage of the design process to facilitate the students working on theirs. Besides this, I also created variety of content for the class, including graphics, videos etc.

Designed and developed website for Web Analytics Class

Conducted research on various UX Design topics

Including UX Design under AI’s Influence, How to Design for Aging Population in Singapore etc.

This work is part of the course content @ NUS-ISS

Please view the summarized version below :)

Jan-Feb: Mobile Design - Daily

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Designing Mobile Application - Daily

During my internship, one of my main responsibilities was to facilitating different courses and looking for new opportunities. In a Digital Experience Design class, I was amazed by how students were able to design different solutions driven from the same problem - working professionals might have more restrictions when exercising compared to other demographics.

Using this as an inspiration, I started to design my own mobile application for working professionals (specifically in Singapore). Here are the key metrics of the projects:

Conducted 10+ user interviews on ISS Colleagues

They are in different age groups, occupations and family dynamics. I got insights on their exercising habits and the apps they use to help them achieving the goal.

Built design systems for the application

As I continued to design a website that used the same theme, I created a design system to make my work easier!

Created Information Architecture, User Flow, Low-fi Prototype

View Hifi Prototype Here 🤍

Feb-March: Web Design

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Redesign Web Analytics Class Website

For the website design, I decided to use the same case study, then the problem became to design an official website for the fitness mobile application to show all the features to the customer. But more importantly, the website should be usable in the class so it should at least have a similar structure to the old website. 

I analyzed the current website and mapped out its information architecture. It’s a very simple structure with a home screen, about us page, course details and contact us. The objective of having these many pages is to create enough buttons to let the students practice google tag manager. Hence, my original solution was to design 4 pages with similar structure for my own website.

Problem Discovery: Analyzing old website

Final Design

View Full Design Below

Takeways & Experience

02 Takeways & Experience

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Takeaways

Take initiatives

This term, many opportunities and experience that I found valuable was derived from small discoveries & chit chat ideas.

Built design systems for the application

As I continued to design a website that used the same theme, I created a design system to make my work easier!

Trust the process and enjoy the experience: view my experience in Singapore down below🤍

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