Hikaru Syafa

A Letter from Me to You ✿°˖✧

My main issue for this project is that many people aren't aware on how to overcome their anxieties properly and because of that i want to help people with anxiety on how to overcome their anxieties in their daily lives, and also spread awareness on how to handle/comfort people with anxiety. sometimes people would get confused when they see someone having an anxiety/panic attack and don't really know how to comfort them, by that issue i created a blog about how to comfort people with anxiety and informations about anxiety as well, i hope my blog can spread awareness and could help/comfort people with anxiety.

GOALS

Specific : My goal is to help people who are struggling with overcoming their anxiety and also to spread awareness about different types of anxiety. And by making a blog i hope it can be a useful source of information for people to know more about Anxiety.

Measurable : Going through this project from the beginning was tough yet fun to do, my progress also had some ups and downs and now i'm currently on the last stage of this project, looking back at my journey i had lots of struggles and procrastination. However now i may know that i have succeeded by making this blog and air freshener to help people with overcoming their anxiety.

Attainable : My goal is very well realistic to make and do, however it was not that easy. The journey to making the blog and air freshener was quite hard, i had to conduct a few interviews, create a survey, and loads of research to add good informations to my blog and also research about what calms our body and mind for my air freshener. I am super thankful that my mentor and friends helped me throughout this project because i had loads of resources around me as well.

Relevant : My goal for this project is also connected to my personal experience. And since i wasn't aware on how to overcome my anxiety attack back then, i wanted to make a platform where i can spread awareness and informations about how to overcome anxiety.

Time-Based : I started working on this project way back somewhere in November 2020, my first action was i conducted a survey with a leading question " have you ever experienced anxiety before ? ". Then i started researching more, conducted a few interviews and finally interviewed an expert as well. I also had a few thoughts on adding another product, however i did end up adding one more product which is the air freshener.

Empathy & Identifying Users

During the process, i had some ups and downs of me identifying people who have experienced anxiety or not. I then created a survey for people to fill in, in order for me to know how people react/overcome their anxieties.

It was difficult and definitely challenging for me to decide on who i should interview/find sources from. I didn't really know who to approach about anxiety, however my mentor helped find the people that i need for extra information and knowledge for this project. Before i happen to interview an expert, i conducted multiple ways for me to get to know my users, which was a survey, research, and interviewed a few close friends and family members.

I learned that i find it very interesting that everyone has their own different experiences with anxiety and also different ways on how to overcome their own anxieties, also there were many surprising events that my users mentioned as well.

Way before the interviews which was the survey that kind of changed my perspective on the topic, i had a few dilemmas on considering what should be my main goal because of many informations i received through the survey and interviews i conducted. However i did learn many new things through the platforms and sources i received from the people, expert and my mentor.

As a result, for this project i made a blog and air freshener to spread awareness about how to overcome anxiety for my users and also for them to read and gain more informations about anxiety as well. If this experience would take place differently i would definitely conduct much more interviews with people and ask more than 1 expert for advices and ask many more questions.

The Documents i used during the process of research and finishing !

Define and Ideate

Before i started my project i wondered curiously about what i should aim in this project or what is my purpose and goal for this project. Then i started thinking about how i overcome and handled my past situation that involves an anxiety/panic attack which landed me on a question " How did i overcome it? What did i do to calm myself down? ". Those 2 questions helped me to create a topic for my project which is how to overcome anxiety. As soon as i have the 2 leading questions, i breakdown to multiple questions.. such as " How can i help people by overcoming their anxiety? What can help them by overcoming their anxiety? What platform/product that could help to overcome their anxiety? " . By breaking down those questions, it could help me reach the people's needs. The questions that i breakdown initially became my main idea for this project, i created a survey as the beginning of my project while it leads to multiple interviews and researches.

For my products i created a blog and air freshener to personalize the people's needs. By creating a blog it would allow me to spread awareness and also to share informations on how to overcome anxiety. And by creating an air freshener it allow me to share how Lavender scent air freshener can help reduce and ease your body and mind. Throughout this project, i feel the stress and pressure by the process on making this project because of procrastination, unable to find experts, and high expectations towards my survey.

About my products

For my Culminating Project products, i aim to provide/help the people's needs by showing them a snippet of my products. As i explained before various of times in here for my cp product i created a blog called A letter from me to you and an air freshener called Lavy.

For my blog, i aim to spread awareness and share informations on how to overcome anxiety. And for my air freshener, i am to help people on how to calm their anxieties/heavy emotions down by using my very own air freshener. My air freshener uses lavender scent, lavender scent has a very good impact in our limbic system, it is the part where our brain controls our heavy emotions.

Why did i decided to make a blog and an air freshener as my Culminating Project Product? Because a blog can gather all informations from all the researches, interviews and survey that i did throughout this project. A blog can be also a source of information or a platform where people could easily read and educate themselves about anxiety. For the air freshener, i want to provide people something that could immediately relax them from heavy emotions and could put them on ease, and that is when i started researching about air fresheners and decided that air freshener would be my 2nd product.

Both of my products can be very useful in our daily lives, why? A blog can help you give new informations and also would attract you more to a certain topic that you're reading and an air freshener can make you feel relaxed while you're in a heavy situating ( such as stress, anxiety, tired, sad, angry, etc ).

I've been doing this project for around 8 months now, and to be honest if i had to make it more simple i would immediately work on my air freshener instead of the blog. However i do like my idea of making a blog but it took me a pretty long time to finally finish it. Throughout making this project, i hope my blog and my air freshener can be a great help and useful source for you! ( because it works on me too ).