Thesis Project 02: Narrow Down To Two Topics

Frank Gong
1 min readOct 10, 2020

Topic A: Build a better online musical instrument community for non-musician adults with musical instrument skills.

Problem: Help non-musician adults with musical instrument skills find and interact with musical instrument communities.

Benefit to users: Users can get a better sense of achievement, a good means of expression, make more friends, and level up their musical instrument skills.

Why? Playing musical instruments is relaxing, brings people happiness, and is a social opportunity.

Further Research

  • 45.3 million non-musician adults with musical instrument skills in the U.S.
Market Landscape

Topic B: Help elderly people better organize and manage their home storage space.

Problem: Elderly people find it hard to remember where is each item in their home.

Benefit to users: Elderly people can quickly find and organize all their items.

Why? Empower them to manage their life independently without hassles.

  • According to the Los Angeles Times, the average American home contains 300,000 items.

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Frank Gong

UX Designer at EY Design Studio | SVA IxD 21' | Designed at Logitech Gaming and Neo4j