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100 Ways Of Opening Doors

Challenging social Norms

To me, it is important to keep my passion for design. Playing with the possibilities & challenging social norms are the best ways for me to remain passionate. So I launched a side project #100waysofopeningdoor within UID, trying to find 100 ways opening doors in UID. The project is still on the going. Contact me if you want detailed information.

with Melissa Mahmutovic

with Lu Zheng & Alejandro Mandrión Moreno

with Hector Mejia & Mike Kirk Andersen

with Ezgi Sabır

with Martijn van den Broeck & Sebas Dc

with Mohammed Aldulaymi

And It Moves...

Motion Graphics design

Growing up watching too much animations, I can always get a lot of fun making things move. Here are some examples of my tiny Motion Graphics.Here are some examples of my motion works. They were done for articles from Above.se, where I interned for 6 months. you can find those really interesting articles at https://medium.com/a-view-from-above Happy Moving :)

How to use Service Design to build your IoT strategy

Motion Design for an article from Above.se by Steinar Danielsen. Graphic designed by Thuy Nguyen

Recycling won't save the world

Motion & Graphic Design for an article from Above.se by Johanna Tunlid. Huge thank to Felix Heibeck.

Recycling won't save the world

Motion & Graphic Design for an article from Above.se by Johanna Tunlid. Huge thank to Felix Heibeck.

A Beginner’s Guide to Making Circular Products

Motion Design for an article from Above.se by Bilgi Karan & Johanna Tunlid. Graphic designed by Thuy Nguyen.

A Beginner’s Guide to Making Circular Products

Motion Design for an article from Above.se by Bilgi Karan & Johanna Tunlid. Graphic designed by Thuy Nguyen.

100 Days on instagram

How it started

Back in 2018, I did a 100-day challenge of taking one picture for Instagram every day for 100 days. The reason for this challenge was simply because I was (am) not a perseverant person but I wanted to change that. And this challenge seemed easy enough for me to keep doing for 100 days. The full photo collection can be found HERE

After finishing the 100-day challenge, I constantly got questions, like “What do you learn from it?”. I really can not answer this questions, so I decided to figure out the purpose of my 100 days on Instagram as by looking back at all the photos, data and myself as anthropology research materials.

Methods & Tools

Methods: The project was inspired by the digital anthropology project by Dr. Lev Manovich. However, my dataset is too small, so I mixed Quantitive Research, Qualitative Research and the methods by Dr.LevManovich in this project.
Tools: Excel, Processing, ImageJ (for photo analysis), Figma and Adobe suite

Colour Calendar

Location

Themes

Likes Received V.S. Likes given

Likes V.S. feelings

Different Lives in the same day

The meaning of Life is life itself

I watched the movie Life in a Day many times during this project and I like the ending especially “…The sad part is, I spent all day long hoping for something amazing to happen to show the world that there's something great that can happen every day of your life, in everyone's life. But the truth is, it doesn't always happen. And for me, today... all day long, nothing really happened.”

I paid a contractor from Xianyu (a Chinese platform that is similar to Amazon Mechanical Turk) to go through my 100 posts on Instagram. The feedback I got was almost philosophical and sums up this project really well - “I can see nothing but life itself in these pictures”.

Although we all work so hard to find the meaning of life, maybe we just need to appreciate the “nothing really happened” mode of life. And maybe the ultimate meaning of life is life itself.