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 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….
News MDes Student Jennifer Wong Wins Microsoft’s Hack for Mental Health Award Congratulations to Jennifer Wong (MDes Fall ’22), whose startup, Empathie, is the recent recipient of Microsoft’s “Hack for Mental Health” award. Empathie is a self-guided mobile app that delivers affordable, …
People Eleanor Mayes Bio Hi I’m Eleanor (she/her) – I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and frequently visited family in Chicago and the UK. Motivation for my design and engineering practice is centered around equity, …
People Sara Friend Bio My name is Sara. I graduated from Northwestern in 2020 where I majored in Mechanical Engineering and minored in Computer Science. I particularly focused on human centered product design while there, …
People Abhijeet Ghavalkar (Abhi) I’m a designer and entrepreneur on a mission to promote equity, affordability, and accessibility in healthcare using design thinking and entrepreneurship. The human-centered design process, guided by empathy, is at the core of all the work that I do. …
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