Week 10: I’m so burned out, I need a break
What did I do this week:
Refined stakeholder map
Creating a personal encyclopedia of rituals occurring in Chinese New Year
Narrowed down research methods I will use in my research plan
Refined Stakeholder Map
Following my meeting with Professor Ahmed, I mainly focused on refining my stakeholder map so that I can have a narrower focus. I started off by reading a few articles about stakeholder mapping, as I had never really done the version mentioned in class before. I read or watched:
Consortium for Public Education. Design Thinking for Education, Ep 8: Stakeholder Mapping. 2021. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SAJPR1ph6s.
Dam, Kate. “Stakeholders Mapping in Design Thinking.” Medium, 7 Aug. 2019, https://uxplanet.org/stakeholders-mapping-in-design-thinking-57c8359d876c.
DesignKit_ecosystemmapping_worksheet.Pdf. https://design-kit-staging.s3.amazonaws.com/procedures/worksheets/000/000/011/original/DesignKit_ecosystemmapping_worksheet.pdf?1590439631. Accessed 21 Nov. 2021.
IDEO.org. “Design Kit: Define Your Audience.” Design Kit, https://www.designkit.org/methods/define-your-audience. Accessed 20 Nov. 2021.
Nielsen Norman Group. “Stakeholder Analysis for UX Projects.” Nielsen Norman Group, https://www.nngroup.com/articles/stakeholder-analysis/. Accessed 20 Nov. 2021.
Once I gained a background understanding of what the stakeholder map is, I decided that it was better for me to start off by first making a detailed ecosystem map on Figma based on what I created from the IDEO website. An image of what I created is shown below. I thought it was a fun exercise. Definitely took a lot longer than I thought. But again, it was a nice exercise to do and it helped me to think of stakeholders that I wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.
Ecosystem map for a young adult Chinese diaspora community member who wants to learn more about Chinese New Year Rituals
Once I created the ecosystem map, I used the parties that I identified in my ecosystem map to create my stakeholder map, which is shown below. I really liked connecting them all together and figuring out what the relationships were between all the stakeholders. I did have to update my ecosystem map for my stakeholder to make sure all of the stakeholders on there were people and not institutions.
Stakeholder map for a young adult Chinese diaspora community member who wants to learn more about Chinese New Year Rituals
Encyclopedia of Chinese New Year Rituals
Again, as per the suggestion by the professor, I created a document meant to catalog all the rituals that occur during Chinese New Year. To be honest, I didn’t start this earlier because I knew I would enjoy the process and I wanted to do it when I was in a dark place so that I had something to enjoy. Also, it never really occurred to me to write all the stuff that I knew down because I already knew it and it was in my head. But hey, it seemed like a good enough time to start. Truth to my hypothesis, I really enjoy the process of cataloging and organizing the information that I found. So far, I have organized it into different sections: food, performances, symbols, honoring, clothes, myths, decorations, and red pocket. I look forward to doing more of it.
Narrowed down my research methods
Lastly, I continued to refine my research plan. Mostly, I narrowed down my research methods to five methods.
Autoethnography
Cultural Probes
Diary studies
Survey
Secondary interviews with people that filled out survey/kits/studies (as needed)
I like the idea of doing self-reported methods as a lot of my research has to do with memory and I want the participants to feel like they can have a lot of time to think about it and to have the questions in front of them for a while. I think the first think I have do to though is reach up about cultural probes and diary studies just to get a background on them.