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Thesis statement to date, again

Manic depression, also known as Bipolar disorder is one of the most common seen mental illness in our society. However, the society appears to ignore the fact that there are 20.9 million people who are actually suffering from the clinical disorder and being discriminated and labeled as “crazy”, “having weaker wills” because of the weak understandings and omnipresent prejudices toward this issue. When it comes to understand the real syndromes and problems the word “bipolar” represents, very few people have correct basic understandings. I believe the lack of interest to understand this issue generate discriminating behaviors and rigid attitude around our society and make lives of people, who suffer from bipolar syndromes, even more difficult to cope with. As “mental” illness, bipolar disorder is not as visually recognizable as physical disability. My thesis is about boost people’s interests and understandings toward this issue. I want to make the “invisible”, ”non-visually obvious” situa...

Re-focus

OK....I'm kinda losing the sense of what am I suppose to focus on at this point. I tried really hard to work on the storyboard but somehow it got stuck in the middle of nowhere really bad....Friday is gone and I've achieved basically nothing.....which suck and made me panic!!!!!So, it's probably the timing to write something to organize my chaotic thoughts regardless how much i hate writing. There are couple messages I want to deliver. Informative ones: Bipolar disorder is a real illness. There are 20.9 millions(9%) people suffering from it in United State. Bipolar are suffering from cycles of mania and depression. Searching for the right med and right treatment is usually a painful journey for them as well. Provocative ones: Bipolar have been treated poorly, with unfair stigma and discrimination. It's ignorant to making fun of people's illness or saying it's because they have weaker wills that they have the syndromes. The illness is genetic and strongly related...

Thesis Concept Structure mapout

Context Why is my project important/valuable? How will the project change users/audience's life? What is the problem I'm trying to solve/question? What fact legitimate my project? Who will this project matter to? Where is the project most effective, where does it live? How does it relate to existing works? What is new about my project? What form best communicate my project? Look&Feel How does material effect function/presentation? How does that material contribute to the project's meaning? Does it look approachable to my audience? What/ How much research do I need to do? What material am I using? How much do I need? How much will it cost? Where am I going to get the material? How does it look like? What's the color/scale/length/shape/style/tone of it? User experience How will my audience access the project? How do they navigate think through the project? What is the sequence of the user experience? What is the feedback or reward? How does it keep the audience engage...

Thesis Concept to Date (11/05)

Current thesis concept Manic depression, also known as Bipolar disorder is one of the most common seen mental illness in our society. People use the word “bipolar” all the time with all kinds of diverse meaning in it. In most of the cases the word is used as a negative label of a person’s behavior or personality. However, the society appears to ignore the fact that there are millions of people who are actually suffering from the clinical disorder and being discriminated and labeled as “crazy”, “having weaker wills” because of the weak understandings and omnipresent prejudices toward this issue. The common misusing of the word “bipolar” is one subtle example of all the discriminations bipolar patients facing nowadays. When it comes to understand the real syndromes and problems the word “bipolar” represents, very few people have correct basic understandings. I believe the lack of interest to understand this issue generate discriminating behaviors and rigid attitude around our society and...