How research changed my life

When I first attended the question of research class, I could not understand what I was supposed to do. I was puzzled. The lectures have been useful for me to get into a track, and I also got used to working online, like keeping records of my everyday work as a blog.

I now understand a question of that research is the channel for research, and it helps us explore the world around us from a different perspective. Research teaching unlocks various insightful things about our field and expands our knowledge base. At present, I get that teaching us questions of research increased our knowledge and skills to write our research topic.

I struggled a lot to find out the question for research. Then, I found a way to write my research question by picking a problem to work on, working on it, repeat until I found a solution to some interesting problem. Afterward declared the problem I solved to be my research question.

I never knew there is a method of research to do the research. I just designed my projects though I used to search for other designer's projects to inspire my work and took notes from other designers' perspective views to think innovatively from others. I searched for my related projects when I needed to create a new project because seeing someone's existing project would bring something new to my mind. The more I looked for a topic, the more topics came out of it that I looked into to expand my research. This is how I used to do it, but I never used to know that there was already an existing process.

However, finding the research question took me a while to apply it to just one question. I thought it would be good to match with the course I am studying and relate to my interests. 

Here are some other topics I thought about before I thought of my research question: 

1. How does being a reflective practitioner enrich my creativity?
2. How does a reflective practitioner enrich the innovation?
3. How to connect creativity with the term reflective practitioner?
4. What knowledge and abilities in Graphic Design are enhanced by being a reflective practitioner?

I think, there are more methods ahead to unfold where I can rewrite and explain my research question in many ways. I am keeping a learning journal and regularly applying reflective practice, which supports me in developing more meaningful and creative thinking skills, encouraging my engagement in the work process, strengthening my ability, and improving my work from my mistake.