People Xue Han (Yuki) Bio Hi! My name is Xue/Yuki. I was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. I had my undergraduate study at University of Nottingham as a Product Design and Manufacture student. …
People Alexx Zaki Bio Dreamer. Creator. Innovator. (They/them) As a budding designer, I am on a quest to refine my skills and unleash my creative potential. Driven by a deep sense of purpose, …
People Karthika Baiju Bio I am a Designer with deep empathy for users, an Engineer who loves solving technical challenges, and an Artist who loves to color outside the line. Before Berkeley, I worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft where I started learning about design. …
People Siming Jin (Susie) Bio I am a UX/UI designer who is interested in universal design, inclusive design, and generative arts. Coming from a cognitive science background, I enjoy the intersection between design, neuroscience, …
People Yue Fan (Erin) Bio Hello! I’m currently a Product Designer with experience in AR/MR products, web 3.0, Metaverse virtual platforms, and Edtech tools. Coming from a Landscape Architecture background, I’ve put on several hats and worked as a Design Manager, …
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, …