Events Design Field Notes: Amir Elabbady, UX Research Isn’t As Scary As You Think Sponsor: Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Zoom link Join us for another semester of Design Field Notes—an ongoing lecture series part of our course DES INV 95. …
News MDes students win Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Congratulations to MDes students Akash Mahajan, Debbie Yuen, Eleanor Mayes, Roland Saekow, and Lula Duloup for winning the Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards in the Student category with their project EIDOS. …
News MDes Student Daisy Chen and Jiaxuan Ren’s work featured in MIT Reality Hack 2022 Congratulations to MDes students Daisy Chen and Jiaxuan Ren for getting their projects featured in MIT Reality Hack 2022! Daisy’s team project “Inclusive VR User Testing Tool” is selected as the grand finalist out of 60 teams and won the “XR for inclusion” prize sponsored by Snap AR. …
News Student Papers Accepted by the ACM CHI Conference Two MDes students’ papers, done in collaboration with EECS students, “WebTransceiVR – Asymmetric VR Collaboration At Scale “and “Generative VR: Spatial Interactions in Virtual Reality to Guide Generative Design “ have been accepted by the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction HCI. …
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….
People Floor van de Velde Floor van de Velde (b. Antwerp, Belgium) is a practicing artist and Professor of the Practice of sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has a background in sculpture, …
Student Works DESINV 202: Technology Design Foundations (FA21) Technology Design Foundations (TDF) introduces design and technology frameworks essential to the creation of products, services, and experiences enabled by emerging technologies. TDF is a core class in the required curriculum of all MDes students in their first semester. …
News Meet Prana, a ventilator startup Prana is a passive, multi-patient attachment for medical ventilators that allows up to four patients to share a single continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine safely. Ventilators are a critical medical device used to treat numerous respiratory diseases from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), …
News MDes Student Eleanor Mayes (FA22) receives the Arcus Social Justice Corp Fellowship Eleanor Mayes (MDes FA22) has just been awarded an Arcus Social Justice Corp (ASJC) Fellowship! The ASJC is a new fellowship program in the College of Environmental Design that offers significant debt-relief to select graduate students who intend to do social justice work after graduation. …
Events MDes November Admissions Events Join us for one of our upcoming Admissions Events and information sessions this November! Our sessions this month introduce the ways current students leverage the resources at UC Berkeley to enrich their experiences and launch their professional opportunities in the Bay Area during this visual session. …