Project Presentation Reflection
Presentation Preparation
In preparation of the final presentation and pitch document, I was tasked to analyse the survey results we collected. From the raw results data, I need to figure out how to interpret them meaningfully. Fortunately, the survey results are represented in Google Sheets, which allows me to plot charts to visualise the data. By using charts, it is easier to find correlations and discover insights from the survey results.
Even though charts are effective data visualisation tools, using the right one is necessary to interpret data meaningfully. Initially, I selected a pie chart to represent the different use cases for Healthy 365. However, the choice of a pie chart is inappropriate, as we cannot show the distinct difference between use cases with minimal differences. More suitable data visualisation will be a bar chart, showing the counts of each use case. Viewers will be able to see the distinct difference between each use case with the bar charts.
Post-presentation Reflection
To prepare for the presentation, we also went through past tutorials, identified important designing phases and applied them to our presentation. This helps us to structure our project structure and allow us to pitch our proposed design systematically. We felt that the presentation went well, analysing our audience and covering our redesigning process step-by-step.
While my team felt that we did well explaining the project, we felt that our presentation could have been better. Our presentation was filled with facts, and our redesign approach is similar to many teams. These made our presentation dry, and our content repetitive and boring. However, I am amazed by the last group’s engaging and unique presentation. They incorporated a small skit to illustrate their points, making their presentation more entertaining. Instead of doing factual presentations, I hope that my future group mates and I can look into relaying our content entertainingly.
In addition, our team was unable to conduct another survey on how the users think and feel about our proposed design, due to the tight timeline. Although we listened to our users and designed based on their suggestions, we are still unsure if our proposed redesign is what they desire.
Interesting Findings
After the presentation, we found out that the Health Promotion Board (HPB) and Apple had teamed up to create Lumi Health, an IOS application to promote healthy living in Singapore. Lumi Health is more visually appealing as it follows Apple design guidelines. It also uses gamification to make users more engaged and motivated to earn monetary rewards over the two-year programme. Although it is only available in English, Lumi Health provides visual guides to help older non-English Singaporeans navigate around the application. Apple is a company known for its user-centric design, and HPB’s collaboration with Apple will ensure that the user experience will be optimised. The birth of Lumi Health is an indication that HPB, like our group, understands the problems of Healthy 365 and is making changes to improve the user experience for its target audience.
