While we had a really interesting time walking around the business district and residential parts of Regent square as a group, it was hard for us to identify problems or experiences for which we could create services. …

Weekly reflections for Interaction Design Studio 2 — Week 1 For me, the project started out with a bang. We were introduced to the Microsoft Design Expo, which added a second layer of challenge and excitement to the studio project. The topic for the project, Design for Empathy, brings about a whole range of emotions. While at one end of…

For our final video, rather than just focusing on the Counselor Connect app, we decided to show the system as a whole.

The second half of the Aaina System — Using our learnings from our conversation with Elizabeth, we started to build the second half of our system which was the application that will be used by the in-person therapist. …

In the final post for seminar 1, I try to navigate the process of designing for a product specifically in the digital world, weaving in my own experiences as a user experience designer at the Harvard Business School and Deloitte Digital. As a UX designer working for a tech company…

Prompt: What is interaction design? Have you changed your mind and if so, how? Or do you find that you still agree with what you wrote at the beginning of the semester? …

Seminar 1 — Prompt: Try your hand at a brief speculative fiction or small critical design project about a near future object. Warning that it’s harder than it seems. Set your scene properly, think about the design language you use, and place it in a scene in time and space. Tokyo. 3rd March, 2045 Worried about your…

Project 3: Data Visualization — Project brief: We’ve all seen data visualizations — some of them effective; many of them simply pleasing graphics. …

After reading through the script and researching conversation AI, we decided that there would be greater value in building a system that depicts the support and reactions of the counselor, rather than reflecting the emotions of the client. …