User Experience Design
Research, Learn and Apply
Overview Pt. 1 - Slide Deck Design
Research & Content
Selected Designer - Zaha Hadid
- Who is Zaha Hadid?
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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi & British architect, artist, and designer. ​​​
Research
With Zaha Hadid, we didn't just look at her exterior designs; we also searched for interior designs. In addition, we also noticed that her design inspiration came from some of her early abstract paintings. She really applied the irregular streamlines in the paintings to her works.
Zaha’s grammar and rules are often built on nature as a syntax.
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Many of her designs appear to have no sense of order like nature does but underneath lies the logic.
Zaha's Early Inspo
After that, we conducted a detailed search of Zaha’s works and we identified MAXXI MUSEUM, London Aquatics Centre and Napoli Afragola Railway Station as examples for our presentation, along with her other representative works.
Zaha Hadid Architects. (n.d.). Maxxi Museum [Photograph]. © Iwan Baan. Re-thinking The Future. https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-community/a9022-an-overview-of-curved-architecture/
Exterior Design
NBI S.p.A. (n.d.). Napoli Afragola Railway Station [Fotografi]. Diakses pada 22 Mei 2025, dari https://www.nbispa.com/en/Progetti/napoli-afragola-railway-station/
Zaha Hadid Architects. (n.d.). London Aquatics Centre. Diakses pada 22 Mei 2025, dari https://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/london-aquatics-centre/
Interior Experience
Finally, we focused our research on interior experience on the MAXXI MUSEUM, which has a streamlined design and does not provide visitors with a clear entrance or exit.
