For the Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 quarters, I am working on my second year thesis project.

To discover the problem space, I explored peoples' collecting experiences through 13 interviews and extensive secondary research which served to illuminate the core of every collector's experience.

I sat with each collector and had conversations about their collecting habits, how they collect, why the collect, and what challenges they face within the collecting experience. Regardless of what items people collected, they all brought up two major reasons for engaging with their respective hobbies: community and interaction.

Almost everyone loved to talk about their collections