Innovation School MDes Design Innovation & Service Design

Xiangyu Zhu

MDes student of Design Innovation and Service Design

Xiangyu focuses on service design, user experience, social innovation, and industrial design. He is currently a postgraduate student in design innovation and service design at the Glasgow school of art (GSA), University of Glasgow. Xiangyu studied in the industrial design department of Xi ‘an Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student.

Contact
18105201188@163.com
X.Zhu2@student.gsa.ac.uk
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Works
Creative Circle

Creative Circle

A distributed community-based Creative Circle

In order to empower new design freelancers better deal with their mental issues, Creative circle provides a bottom-up solution for the freelancers’ community. By building a more distributed space by cooperation with Edinburgh bars&Coffee Shops in the community to provide a service as the peer support organization
in Edinburgh for the new design freelancers and employers to better engage together to support themselves by their own power.

Creative Circle video

Creative Circle

Creative circle

Research structure and methodology

External workshop, signal collection, and future speculation

Quantity research

Problem area

Engagement session

Insights

Theme analysis

HMW questions

Persona and Journey

Opportunities

Definition

Affinity diagram

Solution area

Value Chain

Blueprint

Toolkit design

Toolkit

Test

Application

Business canvas

Benefit