Group Projects

You'll use Figma to redesign a non-profit organization's current website within a mobile context. Rather than designing for a general audience, you'll be asked to cater your design to a specific group of people - matching their needs and preferences.

Due date: check-in (9/6), demo (9/15), doc (9/20)
Topics: mobile design, visual design, accessibility
Design process focus: user needs & prototyping
Tech: Figma
Instructions: Deliberate Design Instructions

You'll use Tableau to communicate data on social, environmental, or political issues. We'll wrestle with the non-neutrality of design through creating both clear and communicative visualizations as well as intentionally manipulative visualizations.

Due date: demo (10/6), doc (10/13)
Topics: infovis, rhetoric & dark patterns, perception
Design process focus: prototyping & evaluation
Tech: Tableau
Instructions: Data Design and Manipulation Instructions

You'll use p5js and ml5js to create a hand/body-input application that prioritizes expressivity and creativity. You'll also experiment with Human-AI Interaction as your webcam uses ml models to infer information about your hands, faces, or bodies.

Due date: demo (11/01)
Topics: hand/body input, human-ai interaction, engagement
Design process focus: ideation, prototyping, & evaluation
Tech: p5js, ml5js, webcam input
Instructions: Expressive Design Instructions

In our most broadly-scoped project, you'll use aframe to prototype a VR application that prioritizes atmosphere and immersion.

Due date: demo (12/01), doc (12/06)
Topics: 3D visual output, interaction in 3D space,
Design process focus: the whole thing!
Tech: aframe, glitch
Instructions: Design for Immersion Instructions

Instead of a final exam, you will individually write a culminating design philosophy that not only reflects on the projects, processes, and principles that you have developed over the semester, but applies your personal lens to design projects you may intersect with in the future

Due date: manifesto (12/12 @ 4pm)
Instructions: Design Manifesto Instructions