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REFRAME: Designing Emerging Technologies @Jacobs Spring Design Showcase 2024

Come experience and explore this speculative and interactive work of our second-semester MDes2024 cohort this Friday, May 3rd, 2024 from 5:30 – 7 pm at Jacobs Hall! RSVP for your free tickets.

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News

From Radioactive Blueberries to Virtual Limbs: Berkeley MDes’s Award-Winning Designs

Berkeley Master of design students have been busy! Recent graduates and current students alike have been winning design competitions with some thoughtful and evocative projects:

Gia Kirk of the MDes2024 cohort and her team took second place in the iHackHealth Appathon.

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Events

Design Field Notes, Fall 2023 Edition

design Field Notes is the Jacobs Institute’s open-to-the-public speaker series featuring a dynamic group of designers, artists, and academics in design-related fields who share their work and practice. These presentations via Zoom are part of DES INV 95,

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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,

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Alumni Awards News Student Work

MDes Students and Alumni Win Design Awards at Core77 and SF Design Week Competitions

Susanne Pierce Maddux’s Berkeley MDes project “Aer” has been recognized as an award winner in the 2023 CORE 77 design Awards’ sustainability category.

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Events

Design Field Notes, Spring 2023

Please join us in welcoming another exciting semester of design Field Notes speakers. As part of our ongoing course DES INV 95, this speaker series invites a dynamic group of designers,

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Alumni Career Events

Design Career Conversation: Kloey Battista, Innovation Senior Consultant at Deloitte Digital

Kloey works at Deloitte Digital on an integrated design team and has experience in innovation consulting ranging from product management, design strategy, concept definition, and user research. Kloey earned a Berkeley Certificate for design Innovation (BCDI) from Jacobs Institute in 2018,

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Alumni Career Events

Design Career Conversation with Leon Zhang: UX Design at Google

What does it take to get hired at Google for UX? What is it like working there? Join this in person conversation with Leon Zhang, UC Berkeley (B.A. Cognitive Science 2017) alum and Google interaction designer for a conversation about his post-Berkeley career path.

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Events Student Work

Attend the Jacobs & MDes Winter 2022 Design Showcase

The Jacobs & MDes design Showcase is a three-day event that highlights student accomplishments and work from the courses and programs offered at Jacobs Institute for design Innovation at UC Berkeley.

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Events

Civic Tech 101 UX Design Job Hunt Tips & Tricks with Karen Chou

Curious about what it’s like to work in design in civic tech and the path it takes to get there? Come join this casual conversation with Karen Chou (she/her), a UX designer at Code for America with a previous background working in tech startups.

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