HCDE undergraduate and graduate students complete a Capstone Project as a culminating experience that synthesizes materials learned across all courses within their degree program.
HCDE Capstone Projects provide the opportunity for students and industry partners to work together to address real-world issues using human-centered design and engineering. Capstone projects are student-run, large-scale projects that encompass two quarters of student work. Learn how to sponsor an HCDE Capstone Project.
Discovering New Music: Building a Personalized Experience
Sponsor: Spotify
Students: Britnie Chin, Dena Sabha, Kerry Horton, Monica Ionescu
HCDE undergraduate team
Reddit Connections
Sponsor: The Community Data Science Collective
Students: Sophia Carpenter, Addie Bjornson, Edgar Lopez
HCDE undergraduate team
Natural Language Input in 3D Printed Footwear
Project sponsor: Adidas
Student: Tianyi Ren, Atharv Wairagade
HCDE undergraduate team
One-Inch Barrier
Sponsor: Telescope Film
Students: Emily Stensland, Cynthia Zhou, Hyuk Gi Lee, Kyle Manske
HCDE master's team
What's on Your Plate?
Students: EJ Lim, Jin Jeon, Kay Zeng, Nelly Shih
HCDE master's team
Hand and Wrist Pain in Gaming
Student: Paige Johnson
HCDE master's team
DIY-Finishing the first project and becoming a lifelong DIY-er
Students: Lu Cai, Yuan Zhu, Qirui Wu, Sam Le
HCDE master's team
Cash App: Shared Banking Experiences
Sponsor: Cash App
Students: Carol Lei, Alissa Acheson, Natasha Schmid, Minh tu Huynh
HCDE undergraduate team
Chime Financial Literacy
Sponsor: Chime
Students: Valerie Remaker, Katia Meuleman, Aiza Ali, Brisa Jimenez
HCDE undergraduate team
Social Banking Experiences with Cash App
Sponsor: Cash App
Students: Dana Langseth, Anna Moreno, Anders Herberg, Elisabeth Fonden
HCDE master's team
You're Not A-Loan
Sponsor: Chime
Students: Katie Borgia, Lan Allison, Anastasia Lucas, Emily Rowland
HCDE master's team
Teen Youth Vaping Cessation Mobile App Design
Sponsor: Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Students: Huiran Li, Yudian Xu, Sam (Kaishan) Ding, Yida Li
HCDE undergraduate team
Making Maternal Care Accessible in Kenya through Digital Interventions
Sponsor: Microsoft
Students: Adoniah Carmeline, Amen Aiwekhoe, Rory McCaffrey, Drew Nevins
HCDE master's team
Watch Me Grow Washington
Students: Kiera Hawkins, Cailey Grembowski, Phecda Louie, Aaron Crosby, Lilian Coutts
HCDE master's team
Fast and Healthy Dinners at Home
Sponsor: Building H
Student: Samrudha Malandkar
HCDE master's team
Proxi: Envisioning a Social Wandering Experience for Gen Z
Sponsor: Proxi
Students: Pukhraj Sidhu, Kayli Ly, Kierra Long, Kenji Fujinaka
HCDE undergraduate team
Google Maps-Driving youth engagement through personalization and portrayal of “vibe”
Sponsor: Google
Students: Quinlan Rogers, Oliver Knickrehm, Milana Brane, Kayleen Garcia
HCDE undergraduate team
Autonomous Vehicle
Students: Elaine Zhou, Darren Lo, Qixin Ding, Chufan Huang
HCDE master's team
Uber 360 - Bridging the Rider/Driver Experience
Project sponsor: Uber
Students: Serene Gao, Vivian Igunbor, Jennifer Spriggs, Christopher Sim
HCDE master's team
GetGreen: Empowering People To Make Sustainable Habits
Sponsor: GetGreen
Students: Roz Gillie, Cato Cannizzo, Sebastian Priss, Lara Hattatoglu
HCDE undergraduate team
Arctic Science
Sponsor: UW Applied Physics Laboratory
Students: Koyo Nakamura, Sydney Leek, Caleb Bareman, Nur Fadhillah Fajarudeen
HCDE undergraduate team
Weaving Realities; Stories of the Duwamish People, River, and their Land
Sponsor: College of Built Environments
Students: Anna Trakhman, Amae Kurre, Sam Heindel, Hayley Yudelman
HCDE master's team
Communication Tool for a Human-to-Human Network
Project sponsor: Nourishing Networks Consortium
Students: Chloe Lee, Cindy Huang, Nicole Hsieh, Linh Bui
HCDE master's team
A Pathway to Zero - Climate Disrupters
Students: Kathlyne Taylor, Marc Woo, Kristen Shiflett, & Becca Carne
HCDE master's team
Volunteers and values: aligning missions, goals and actions in food justice nonprofit organizations
Students: Sabrina Chin, Melissa Dowell, Bryn Robertson, Ana Rodriguez
HCDE master's team
Imagining Early Childcare
Sponsor: Seattle Child Care Business Coalition
Students: Ellen Anderson, Dalena Luong, Morgan Weir, Jessie Zhang, Shubha Nambiar
HCDE master's team
Time is ...
Students: Alaina Orr, Cassidy Trier, Saakshi Goel, Isabel Chacon
HCDE master's team
Improving Nonprofit Funding
Students: Casi Schwisow, Erika Johnson, Sil Lavers, Ryan McLean
HCDE master's team
Bonsai Heads
Sponsor: Pacific Bonsai Museum
Students: IB Sobayo, Jessica He, Clark Saba, Nancy Ou
HCDE master's team
Dropbox Clip: A multi-device clipboard with expanded capacity
Sponsor: Dropbox
Students: Audrey Sun, Kenny Le, Valerie Adams, Trinity Cho
HCDE undergraduate team
TradeOff Network
Sponsor: TradeOff
Students: Mohit Jain, Kei (Clifford) Hartley, David Li, Yvonne Huang
HCDE undergraduate team
Mobile Online Learning
Sponsor: ETutorBoard
Students: Michelle Ma, Chau Nguyen, Shefali Kumaran
HCDE undergraduate team
Project EGRASS-Visualizing the effect of storms on the Puerto Rican power grid
Sponsor: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Students: Amulya Paramasivam , Kyler Menge, Anna Kucinski, Rebeca Estrada
HCDE undergraduate team
What's New-Microsoft
Sponsor: Microsoft
Students: Richard Lei, Brady Busching, Sherlock Ai, Krystal Weng
HCDE undergraduate team
UW School of Nursing Tracking Tool
Sponsor: UW School of Nursing
Students: Monse Medel Martinez, Casey Nguyen, Robel Gebremichael, Chris Lyu
HCDE undergraduate team
Artificial Intelligence to Improve K12 Education
Sponsor: UW Education Policy Analytics Lab
Students: Erin Bright, Jamie Kim, Diego Meza, Ana Bernard
HCDE master's team
In the Zone
Sponsor: Dropbox
Students: Ani Ramanathan, Susan Jung, Anji Misra, Phoebe Tseng
HCDE master's team
Everybuddy Wins: Helping Distributed Knowledge Workers Thrive
Students: Brayan Zavala, Julie Sayigh, Quilla Graves, Ed Paradis
HCDE master's team
reWork Rules!
Students: Nichelle Song, Austin Kohnle, Nina Chen, Aaron Cheng
HCDE master's team
Creating a more diverse and inclusive Metaverse
Sponsor: Meta
Students: Danny Truong, Erica Smith, Varun Chawla, Adam Shah
HCDE undergraduate team
Designing a Software to Create Interactive Surgical Training Modules
Sponsor: Surgical Science
Students: Annie Liu, Lyle Hamm, Cameron Fahsholtz, Camryn Rogers
HCDE master's team
XR Ecosystem
Sponsors: HCDE, ST Microelectronics
Students: Dylan McKone, Ploy Pruekcharoen, Zainab Zahra, Pao Pongsala
HCDE undergraduate team
Valkure-Virtual Reality
Sponsor: VR Ulysses
Students: Isla Wisemore, Lunden Harris, Jesse Walling, Tony Tran
HCDE undergraduate team
Retail in Xtended Reality
Students: Shivam Hingorani, Alida Muongchan, Macay Fischer, Sid Kamath
HCDE undergraduate team
Robotic Surgery Set-up Learning UX
Sponsor: Surgical Science
Students: Carolyn Donaldson, Deyi Jang, Spencer Paullin, Iris Yuan
HCDE master's team
From Headset to Mobile - a Companion App for Horizon World Builders
Sponsor: Meta
Students: Florin Mehedinti, Leo Salemann, Shalonda Forrest, Xuny Haley
HCDE master's team
Virtual Home in Metaverse
Sponsor: Meta
Students: Feifei, Nisha, Peggy, Vincent, Yi-le
HCDE master's team
Project Zoescape / Team Fishing for reality
Sponsor: Zoe VR
Students: Sara Cagle, Jessica Pilsner, Vijayalaxmi MP, Zhilin Shen
HCDE master's team
Vee Are (VR)-For your Best Learning Education Experience
Students: Aaron Jenkins, Alex Schonbaum, Henry Liu Phoebe Huang, Ran Duan
HCDE master's team
A team of HCDE typically spends 100+ hours on their Capstone experience. If you have a design project that would benefit from a fresh human-centered perspective, propose it to the HCDE Capstone program by November 15.