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. In school, …
Student Works Accessibility Empathetic Design product design Project Aiden Gracy Kureel MDes 2023 Advancing Autism Care Through Wearable Physiological Sensing Introduction This study addresses the critical need for innovative communication methods for individuals with profound autism, characterized by severe cognitive impairments, …
People Subin Lee Bio Hello, I am Subin. I have been working as a full-stack software engineer at a tech company in South Korea. Through my double degree in Art & …
Student Works App development City planning Community safety Godspeed Samriddho Ghosh MDes 2023 A novel crowdsourced alternative navigation system for safer pedestrian travel. Introduction Pedestrian safety in Berkeley has been a concern for the last few years especially post- pandemic when the city has seen a surge in unsafe activities. …
Student Works product design student thesis sustainability Aer Susanne Pierce Maddux MDes Spring 2022 Project Aer, is an innovative material-forward design app developmentroach solving for sustainable and affordable home air filtration. Project Aer explores theinherent values, versatility and beauty of the material active charcoal by using it to replace plastic parts and as act as a filtration mechanism. …
Student Works active matter FungalForm Jacob Kritzinger MDes Fall 2022 Abstract FungalForm is an evaporative tower cooler incorporating a replaceable mycelium core, or MycoCore, designed to grow the user mushrooms. FungalForm has the ability to both actively and passively cool the environment around it. …
Events Design@Large-palooza: Summer D@L Tips and Tricks from MDes2023 Design@Large-palooza is a two weeks-long extravaganza of events and engagements showcasing the D@L experiences of the MDes2023 cohort. Students will provide the newest MDes cohort with actionable tips and tricks, …
People Marissa Maldonado Bio Hi, hello! I’m Marissa Maldonado. As a Native American woman in STEM, storytelling is the foundation of my work. While earning my Associate’s in Computer Science and Bachelor’s in Mathematics, …
News Spring Mentors Each semester, MDes students get the opportunity to learn from and interact with various invited guest speakers and mentors. This spring, Design Frameworks and Capstone Studio have a great line-up of guests with backgrounds ranging from critical theory to robotic fabrication to XR technologies to strategic foresight….
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