Teh Cheng Yee Rene

The Order of Collective Good is a speculative, system-based experience that explores how people come to accept uncomfortable or harmful actions through justification.

Grounded in the concept of ethical comfort drift, the project investigates how repeated participation, structured decision-making and carefully framed language can gradually normalise ethical compromise. Instead of asking what is right or wrong, it shifts focus toward how decisions become acceptable within systems.

The project takes the form of a participatory card-based experience where players respond to escalating moral dilemmas. Through scenario cards, justification prompts, and an evolving archive, individual decisions are recorded and accumulated into a shared belief system over time.

By translating these mechanisms into an interactive format, the project reveals how easily ethical boundaries can shift, showing how logic, structure and collective validation can make harm feel justified and acceptable.

By Chance is a speculative feature for Tinder that reimagines how connections are formed beyond swipe-based interactions.

Grounded in research and user insights, the project identifies a key issue where dating apps often prioritise visual judgment, leading to superficial and short-lived connections. In response, By Chance introduces a spontaneous, real-time video call system that connects users at unexpected moments, encouraging more natural and unscripted conversations.

By shifting the experience from passive swiping to active interaction, the feature creates a sense of unpredictability similar to meeting someone in real life. Users are matched based on compatibility and given a limited time to engage, fostering genuine connection through presence rather than curation.

Supported by a broader campaign centred on serendipity and storytelling, By Chance reframes dating from efficiency-driven matching to experience-driven interaction, where meaningful connections happen, quite literally, by chance.

Posture Protractor is a playful yet insightful tool designed to make posture visible and immediate.

Rooted in the observation that poor posture is often ignored until discomfort arises, the project reframes posture as a behavioural issue shaped by habit and lack of awareness. By translating body positioning into angular data, similar to how a protractor measures angle, the tool allows users to recognise their posture at a glance through a simple and legible system.

Designed to function from a distance, the project combines clarity, humour and interaction to encourage self-awareness rather than enforcement. Instead of correcting users directly, it reveals subtle shifts in posture, prompting reflection and gradual change.

Ultimately, Posture Protractor transforms an overlooked everyday habit into something observable, highlighting how small moments of awareness can lead to healthier long-term behaviour.