Berkeley MDes

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Student Works

CURIO

Katherine Liu & Ming-Chen (Charlene) Lu
MDes 2024

A Sustainable Art Exploration Toolkit for Families

Introduction

Despite museums’ efforts to welcome families through innovative programming, many still struggle to create sustainable engagement beyond isolated visits.

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Career Events

Design Career Conversations: Insights from Industry Leaders

The Jacobs Institute’s Fall 2024 Career Conversations series features design career professionals in conversation with Jacobs’ Director of Career Services, Stephanie Bianco. They also feature lunch! All events are in Jacobs 310.

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People

Aarya Harkare

Bio

B2B SaaS Product Designer | Aspiring xr Innovator

Hello, I’m Aarya! With over 3 years of experience in designing B2B SaaS products for the robotics and fintech industries,

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People

Tian (Iris) Qin

Bio

I’m 秦天, an xr developer and a creative coder. I graduated from NYU Shanghai with a degree in interactive media art. Most of my creative work involves digital media,

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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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Student Works AR VR

Limino

Qianyi Chen (Daisy)
MDes Fall 2022
Interactions for Dynamic Blending Virtual and Real Environments in Head-Mounted Displays
Introduction

Existing works have been studying how can the physical world be integrated into the virtual world in MR systems,

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People

Katherine Liu

Bio

Hi, I’m Katherine (or simply Kat!)

I graduated from New York University with a BS in Media, Culture, and Communication and a minor in web programming. One thing that comes out of my undergraduate study is that technology is never neutral.

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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.

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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

Winter 2021 MDes Showcase Recap

INAUGURAL MDES SHOWCASE

On Friday, December 10th, 2021, the first and second cohorts of MDes students enjoyed a full-day at Jacobs Hall as part of the inaugural MDes Showcase.

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