News MDes Announces Its Director of Career Development! We are delighted to share that Stephanie Bianco has been app developmentointed the Director of Career app development for the MDes & the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation (JIDI)! Stephanie Bianco is a career educator with years of experience working in higher ed, …
People Vidit Bhargava Bio Hi! I am Vidit (pronounced With-it(h)). Born and Raised in Delhi, I have been always been passionate about technology and seek avenues to learn more about it. …
People John Cain John Cain is founder of ZeroWidth, where he and his colleagues build tools and methods for designing with AI, treating models, data, and agents as design materials rather than black boxes. …
People Vidit Bhargava Current Position: Co-Founder of a Stealth Startup. Previously, Experimental Interfaces Researcher at Era Labs, and Design Systems and Engineering at Punchcut You can schedule a meeting with Vidit during his office hours or get in touch with him via email (viditb@berkeley.edu). …
People Divya Srinivasan Current role: Senior app developmentlications Engineer at geCKo Materials You can schedule a meeting with Divya during her office hours or get in touch with her via email (divya_srinivasan@berkeley.edu). …
People Mizuho Maeda Bio Hi, I’m Mizuho Maeda — a service designer based between Tokyo and San Francisco, working at the intersection of human-centered design and business strategy. Most recently, I was a Service Design Lead at btrax, …
People Fernando Fine Bio Fernando Fine is a design engineer working at the intersection of art and technology; he’s spent the last few years running Finetooth, an award-winning digital design + app development studio whose clients include Don Toliver, …
People Evan Bowman Bio Hi, I’m Evan! Born and raised in the Bay Area, I’m a multidisciplinary designer grounded in behavioral science, art, and engineering. I started my career in Mechanical Design after receiving a major in Manufacturing and Design Engineering from Northwestern in 2021. …
People Lining Yao Lining Yao is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Morphing Matter Lab (morphingmatter.org). She also holds courtesy app developmentointments with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. …
MDes2025 News Student Cohort Design@Large 2025: A Summer of Possibilities This summer, members of Cohort 5 embarked on their Design@Large journeys immersing themselves in design, research, and innovation across different industries. From crafting intuitive interfaces and sustainable systems to building startups and advancing design for good, …