Project Description

Asian Americans are often indirect communicators and topics like mental health are extremely difficult to discuss within our households.  WhAAt’s on your mind? is a project that focuses on visualizing the mental health of Asian American college students through art. A survey was sent out collecting responses from 12 Asian American students from UMD. Each … Continue reading Beta Build Iteration

For the Alpha iteration, I continued drawing and began to compile the descriptions I will be using as captions onto one document. Some changes that I made for this iteration include adding words to my drawings and incorporating other media. Before this iteration, I made an active decision to not incorporate words with the mindset … Continue reading Alpha Build Iteration

Over the semester, my project has made slow, but steady progress. Starting from just words on paper, my project has made progress through tangible checkpoints such as making a survey, receiving responses, and starting to illustrate these responses. Going back to the beginning of the semester, I revised my project proposal by narrowing down the … Continue reading Mid Point Project Update

I refined the survey as well as changed the title of the project. First, I added a more detailed background and defined certain terms such as mental health and Asian American so that the user is familiarized with them as they are mentioned later on in the survey. I also added the question of whether … Continue reading Iteration 2