Hi, this is Zhihan Xu, a user experience designer crafting products that connect people and make a meaningful difference through her work. Her background is in architecture which provided her with the macro aspect of design thinking, complementary to the micro aspect that MA: UX has been practising. She's passionate about the inclusivity, logic, creativity and impact of UX. Her works touch on the humanization side of design, explore the possibility of future design and innovative day-to-day experience. Her recent postgraduate work addresses the femininity and stereotype in traditional society, while inspiring female empowerment.
Women at the Round Table
Design a user experience based on a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner (similar to a Christmas Eve party in Western countries) to create an immersive space for the audience to experience what it feels like to be a single Chinese woman being rushed into marriage. The audience are invited to a dining table with multiple seats and matching cutlery and napkins for an immersive experience of the current situation of single women being pushed into marriage during the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. 12 traditional dishes combined with images of women, discarding the old society's stereotypical images of women in the dishes, are redesigned into a new 12 new dishes, combining the dishes with mythological stories and presented through visualisation. Some of the seats were set up with iPads that played a loop of video clips (from films and TV shows and movies) of being rushed into marriage.
Design a user experience based on a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner (similar to a Christmas Eve party in Western countries) to create an immersive space for the audience to experience what it feels like to be a single Chinese woman being rushed into marriage. The audience are invited to a dining table with multiple seats and matching cutlery and napkins for an immersive experience of the current situation of single women being pushed into marriage during the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. 12 traditional dishes combined with images of women, discarding the old society's stereotypical images of women in the dishes, are redesigned into a new 12 new dishes, combining the dishes with mythological stories and presented through visualisation. Some of the seats were set up with iPads that played a loop of video clips (from films and TV shows and movies) of being rushed into marriage.