Sarah Kim

Undergraduate

Hello, I am Sarah Kim.

I am a designer that strives to help people discover their design needs and wants. I believe that good design requires being a great listener and observer while having great intuition as well. I strive to design with extensive user research and user testing to ensure that the user’s input has impacted the final design and aim to create designs with lasting impact.

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Skinaire

Skinaire

Class: ID 4061 | Instructor: Roger Ball

Skinaire is a personal skincare product finding app for international flight attendants that allows for an easy discovery and understanding of the skincare products best suited for them when on a layovers in countries abroad.
With Skinaire, flight attendants no longer have to rely on poor translations to learn about foreign skincare products, and with Skinaire doing the research for you, users are able to learn about what ingredients work and not for their skin type and skin concerns. Trending and best rated skincare items best for your profile can be viewed on the home screen depending on the country traveled to allowing users to save in-store shopping time leaving more time to explore or even rest during layovers.
This course was the first fully-virtual studio course I have taken, and although the project was completed solely from my home bedroom, I was able to learn and strengthen new ways to design despite the circumstances. I learned to conduct virtual user interviews and testings as well as learned the value of extensive early trends research to help pick a direction to take the project on as well as the value of using online surveys.

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Weave

Weave

Class: ID 2024 | Instructor: Steve Chininis 

Weave is a versatile design that can function as a lamp or as a decorative furniture piece on its own.
The intended user is millennials who live alone and enjoy entertaining guests. They enjoy decorating their space to reflect the mood they want to set for the occasion.
The Weave floor lamp has been designed to hide its functional parts within its design with its suspended bulb wiring doubling as a customizable design mechanism. The excess wiring can be wrapped around the lamp’s base to be hidden when unplugged for organized storage.
This project by far was the most physically challenging project for me due to the lamp being the same size as me, scaled lo-fi models were a quick way to test concepts, but I quickly learned that that minor changes on smaller scaled prototypes get blown up in full-scaled models thus possibly creating inconsistencies in design intentions and that caused me to test multiple concept iterations for proportions.

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Teammates:  Iling Teng, Enwei Chew
Class: NUS Service Design Platform | Instructor: Joo Jung

Wellderly is an event platform app for seniors above the age of fifty in Singapore that makes the process of attending events more efficient and convenient than the current one.
The problem we were challenged with was that the proportion of the elderly using digital devices and the internet was increasing, yet the elderly tend to not use e-government services and get other family members to do it for them, so how can we encourage the elderly use of e-government services to promote active-ageing in place?
Wellderly is designed to be simple and intuitive for the elderly and encourages them to practice active aging in place by providing easily accessible information for on-going events and provides the option to share events with friends and family to make planning and date tracking convenient from the app promoting familiarity with app usage. For this project, I was responsible for user research, visual design, and the final prototype.