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. …
Events MDes Graduate Exhibition | T-0: Pioneers We are pleased to announce T-0: Pioneers, the graduate exhibition of the inaugural cohort of the Berkeley Master of Design (mdes) program. This exhibition highlights the culminating projects of the graduating Class of Spring 2022 and celebrates their accomplishments as they finish the program and chart their next steps. …
Events Jacobs & MDes Spring 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. …
News MDes Announces Its Director of Career Development! We are delighted to share that Stephanie Bianco has been appointed the Director of Career 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, …
News MDes Spring Break Over spring break, mdes students took some much-needed time to rest, relax, and explore. One group headed up to Napa for wine tasting and stargazing at their vineyard AirBnB. Another group of mdes students who stayed in the Bay for their break had a bonfire on the beaches of San Francisco. …
News MDes Students Win the Fung Institute’s iHackHealth Congratulations to Xingtai Huang and Mercedes Saldana, whose team DermScan won 1st place in the 2022 iHackHealth Appathon. iHackHealth Appathon is hosted by UC Berkeley’s Fung Institute and UCSF, and focuses on addressing pressing needs in the healthcare field. …
News Discover the MDes Studio! Discover the mdes Studio! The Berkeley mdes Studio is a vital unique element of the program. It is our primary space of creativity, innovation, inspiration, and collaboration. It defines us, …
News Meet the new MDes Student Association (MDSA) Fall 2022 The Berkeley Master of Design Student Association (MDSA) is the official organization representing students in the Master of Design (mdes) program at UC Berkeley. The MDSA plays an essential role in the mdes program, …
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, …