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 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 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….
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 The Jacobs Innovation Catalysts Spring ’22 Grant Recipients Congratulations to all of the Jacobs Innovation Catalysts spring 22 grant recipients! This semester, 13 student/student groups were selected by the Jacobs Student Advisory Board to receive additional funding and support to further their projects, …