Design Research Dissertation
January 1, 2026
21/09/2025 - 04/01/2026 (Week 1 - Week 14)
WANG JIHENG / 0378904
Design Research Dissertation / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
LIST
a. DIS60304 Module Information Booklet
b. Task 1: Dissertation Draft
c. Task 2: Final Dissertation Turnitin Report
d. Task 3: Flipbook
e. Task 4: Research Article
f. Weekly Feedback
g. Final Reflection
a. DIS60304 Module Information Booklet
b. Task 1: Dissertation Draft
Fig 1.1 Task 1: Dissertation Draft (Week 1 - Week 7)
c. Task 2: Final Dissertation Turnitin Report
Fig 3.1 Task 3: Final Dissertation Turnitin Report (Week 7 - Week 14)
d. Task 3: Flipbook
Fig 2.2 Task 2: Visual Design Publication PDF (Week 7 - Week 11)
Link to flip book https://online.fliphtml5.com/kovik/wangjiheng-Task2/
Fig 2.2 Task 2: Visual Design Publication PDF (Week 7 - Week 11)
e. Task 4: Research Article
Fig 4.1 Task 4: Research Article Publication (Week 1 - Week 14)
f. Weekly Feedback
g. Final Reflection
Transforming Data into Practice: Semester 2 Overview
Summary This “Design Research Dissertation” module was academically challenging as it required me to do the actual “work” after the heavy “planning and preparation” phase of Semester 1 (preparatory research for Dissertation). I had to effectively turn my collected data and analyses from Semester 1 into multiple “professional” outputs and formats: Task 1, Dissertation Draft, Task 3, Visual Design Publication, and Task 4, Research Article. This process enhanced my skills in refinement, visualization, and publishing, helping me to feel confident as both a design researcher and writer.
Task 1 & 3: Text to Visual Experience In terms of personal transformation, the leap between Task 1 (Dissertation Draft) and Task 3 (Visual Design Publication) was the most important and enjoyable part of the module. Task 1 was mostly about getting all the ideas from Semester 1 “into a proper logical order”, in order to make my Dissertation on Kinetic Typography “publishable”. Task 3 then required me to “walk the talk”: not only to design the publication (Flipbook), but to inject my design research into the design itself (Layout). I was challenged to use my research into kinetic energy and visual hierarchy into the literal presentation of the data: the academic text (Literature Review and Methodology) was required to not only be informative, but have kinetic energy and visual hierarchy within the design format. The important lesson I learned was that “form” and “content” do not exist in isolation in the context of design research; the form and its publication format is in fact an “argument” as well.
Task 4: The Sublime Craft of Academic Precision Task 4 (Research Article) was, in comparison, more technical: the overall task was a test of my craft skills at academic condensation and precision. Writing a journal article from the 7,000-word dissertation was hard as I had to be very brutal in the editing process: deciding what information was “nice-to-have” and what was “need-to-know”. The required KREATE template and APA 7th referencing style was not fun for me, but it taught me the necessary (painful) lesson that in the academic community, the presentation format is not just bureaucracy, but a bar for professionalism.
Conclusion I would conclude that this module was the most important of the year as it helped me to properly bridge the divide between my “creative intuition” from Design modules and the “academically rigorous” modules from Design Research. I can now be sure that I understand what a designer is supposed to “do” after “coming up with a good idea”: to effectively validate that idea with research (Task 1), communicate it with a visual language (Task 3), and then disseminate it professionally (Task 4). I now feel fully equipped to take on complex publication projects that require both design skills and academic research.
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