#week8
The topic of my GP is about self-confidence. This concept started based on my own experience of being self-doubt, questioning my own ability especially on my future career. From my perception as a fresh grad student in 2 months time, I believe that a lot of us feel anxious and uncertain about our future. Even having a clear direction to achieve our goals, I do not know if I am on the right track or am I doing well ? I compare myself with others most of the time, doubting if I managed to achieve what I want? Basically it concerns about the fresh grad students who will be the future in our society. This relate to myself and others who might come across to this problem too. Therefore, with this project I would like to figure out the way to solve my self-doubt problem that probably a lot of us might facing by studying more into this topic -- Self confidence.
The Four methods I will be using for my Graduation Project are Formative Research, Target Audience Profiling, Iterative Design, and Interviews.
Basically, formative research method is research we do before our projects started. It focuses on the target audiences that let us have more understanding of them. At the same time, this project is based on my experience which is a form of primary research that I do it on my own. This is because I am in my targeted audience group which is fresh grad students.In the progress I have done a lot of self-questioning about the topic, I listed out a few questions that I do not often think about such as :
- Am I born with low confidence?
- Why do I want to change it?
- How do I change it?
- What makes me start to doubt myself?
- Is confidence can be built?
- What are the problems I meet?
From a very personal mind mapping, I do a lot of reflection within myself, this even leads me to the memory that I finally found out why and when did my self-esteem gone.
By using formative research method, it may be time consuming but the data collected is rich in detail.
However, this cannot be generalized to the entire population and also intended audience. This method is only be used in the beginning of the research of my project based on my very personal experience.
