Minor Project

MINOR PROJECT - MOON BLOOMS: PUBLIC MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS VENDING MACHINE

22/09/25 - 04/01/26

Khan Saif (0367438)
Minor Project / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Minor project Compilation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Lectures

2. Instructions

3. Feedback

4. Reflection

INSTRUCTIONS

This is the Client Project Brief for this Module:

IMPORTANT LINK

FINAL SUBMISSION - ALL IN ONE LINK

FIGJAM

Through the client brief, we understand some key common challenges about the period Poverty:

Cultural taboos and social stigma around menstruation
Silence and discomfort in discussing menstrual health
Shame and embarrassment among young women
Lack of awareness and empathy among young men
Misconceptions about menstruation being unclean or inappropriate
Period poverty due to socioeconomic inequality
Limited access to affordable menstrual products
Inadequate facilities for menstrual hygiene
Disruption to education, class participation, and social life
Ongoing gender inequality and social exclusion

Team Building

In the week 2, we created a team of 5 from different specializations.

Team Member for Group 7, Minor Project

1. Empathy

Here are the process of EMPATHY :

1. User interview

2. Key findings

3. Affinity Diagram

User Interview

We total got 6 interviews for the user interview, including 3 young adults and 3 mothers:

Mothers:

1. Ivy (Saif)

2. Lu Feng Lan(Tong Qin Yuan)

3. Maggie (Saif)

Young Adults:

1. Christina (Wun Yee)

2. Sammy (Bertrand)

3. Tele (Jasmine)

Interview responses (6): HERE

List of respondent's response on the Interview Question

Key Findings:

After the Interview, we starting to do the key findings

Affinity Diagrams

Key findings were grouped into clusters to create affinity diagrams.

2. Define

We move on to the DEFINE phrase after the EMPATHY phrase, which has the following elements:
Persona of the user
Map of the user's journey
"How Might We" is the problem statement.

User Persona

2 Main User Personas were developed for both young adults and mothers - Amira Tan (a budget-conscious mother) and Li Xinyi (a university student)—showed that period poverty affects people differently

. While mothers worry about their daughters’ future health and education, students struggle with social stigma and the lack of eco-friendly options in public spaces

User Persona

Problem Statement

Public places such as schools and workplaces lack hygienic products or clean toilets.
Women wear used menstrual products due to their lack of access to clean ones, which is unsafe and can affect their health, such as infection and skin irritation.
Women feel shame about menstruation due to some cultures’ stigma towards it for its “uncleanliness” and being “disgusting”. The stigma can result in a lack of education or awareness and women’s reluctance to discuss the topic.
Lack of menstruation education, such as hygiene practices and inadequate access, can lead to urinary tract infections and cause the negative stigma to arise, despite being women’s health cycle.
The cost of menstrual products has increased.

Insight Statement

Problem Statement

"How Might We" Questions

To establish the framework for brainstorming and the direction of the IDEATION term, a set of How Might We questions was created.

HMW Question

3. Ideation

Since vending machine design is outside of our primary area of expertise, concept development proved to be one of the most difficult components of this project. Brainstorming sessions and in-depth research were necessary for this phase.

Pre-Task 1: Presentation of the Solution

We started by organizing the "Crazy Eight" concepts that were discussed in class. We combined, cross-validated, and thoroughly investigated workable ideas using these sketches.

Fig 1.22 Possible Ideas/ Solutions

After the week 5 meeting, We decided to choose the idea 4.

Task 1 Proposal: Come up with a creative project idea as a team.

Fig 1.23 Task 1 Proposal

After receiving the feedback by Dr. Wong , we aim to build 4 products:

1. Moon Blooms Vending Machine

2. App UI Design

3. Digital Screen UI(Vertical)

4. Packaging Design For Moon Blooms Pads and underwear

5. Infographic animation

The features in Moon Blooms

Branding & Art Direction

The Logo Design in Moon Blooms

Typography

Poppins should be used for our brand, as this communicates trust between the brand and users who are trying to educate themselves while trying our products. Dancing Script has a very soft, comfort vibe. Which is why it would be ideal to use the font as MoonBlooms’s tagline, “Let it Flow...”

Color Palette

The pink emphasizes women’s menstruation. The blue and white, which resembles the contrast between the moon and the night sky. The color combination and the brand name itself further emphasize that women can bloom with menstruation and grow with confidence as the moons go by.

4. Prototype

PROTOTYPE 1: Vending Machine