Canvas Interface Redesign
2018
Jingwen Li
Canvas Interface Redesign
2018
Jingwen Li
Canvas Interface Redesign is an interface design group project that helps to improve the user experience of Canvas. The current layout of Canvas’s Homepage has much information that is not useful to students and is not conducive to assignment completion. Base on the experience of the recent Canvas homepage, our team listed out some major issues and we design our interview questions. Since almost every student uses the canvas, we decided to interview both lower level and upper-level students from different schools and college. After we did the observation interviews and researchers, we decided to redesign the Canvas into a customized homepage that would fulfill different needs for different students.
Canvas Interface Redesign is an interface design group project that helps to improve the user experience of Canvas. The current layout of Canvas’s Homepage has much information that is not useful to students and is not conducive to assignment completion. Base on the experience of the recent Canvas homepage, our team listed out some major issues and we design our interview questions. Since almost every student uses the canvas, we decided to interview both lower level and upper-level students from different schools and college. After we did the observation interviews and researchers, we decided to redesign the Canvas into a customized homepage that would fulfill different needs for different students.
​Rice Plastic
​Personal Project ｜ 2 Months ｜ 2020
​Bioplastic made from rice
This project is an ongoing material exploration that discovers different possibilities of rice and use rice to create flexible, soft, and unique bioplastic. The project aims to allow more people to create sustainable materials by themselves, to experience and raise awareness of the negative impact of plastic. It also aims to educate people about the potential of our nature in the context of the circular economy.
Focus:
Materials Exploration
Sustainable Design
Scopes:
Materials Research
Materials Experiment
​Sustainable Material Exploration Process
Reform the rice paper into liquid
Liquid formula testing
I melted down the rice paper and blended it into rice starch liquid. The experiments were carried out by changing the ratio of vinegar and glycerin in order to compare the thickness, flexibility, toughness, and firmness of the rice plastic.
Material Properties
Material Formula
1 : 1 : 2 : 12
Vinegar
Glycerin
Rice paper
Water
Material Processing
Mixing Formula
Filling Mold
Drying
Performance Properties
Color Dyeing:
Colorfastness:
Scratch Resistance:
Tear Resistance:
Water Resistance:
Wear Resistance:
Yes
Medium
Medium
Low
Low
Low
Physical Properties
Stiffness:
Texture:
Surface:
Transparency:
Surface Hardness:
Flexible
Irregular Texture
Glossy & Matte
Translucent
Soft
Surface Texture
The unique textures are determined by different baking temperature, baking time, and coloring
TEXTURE GALLERY
The Next Step & Education Plan
The material experiment of rice plastic will continue in the future,
incorporating with other natural materials, applying to other
products, as well as becoming a possible plastic alternative.
Possible Future Plan
Wasted Rice
Produce Rice Plastic
Consumer Goods
Education Plan
Activity Introduction
Material Experiment
(Making bioplastic)
Sharing Time
Kid and her parent learning from the experiment
