Social Lab

Prototyping in everyday life

Prototyping is an easy word to understand in the context of mobile wire frames. You make a quick example of your mental model and test it out with people who point out all the things you have missed. But the word prototyping became tricky for us as we began to think about…

Prototype through conversation

In the past month, we experienced a lot in social lab class. We worked extremely hard for the impact award narrowing down our initiative, fleshing out our proposal and having 4 rounds of iteration. But we didn’t get the grant. Suddenly I don’t understand the meaning of all…

Prototyping for Sustainable Social Impact

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Last semester at CCA, we began emphasizing the importance of empathy in our design process. Empathy is a user-centric attitude. When we create a space that allows…

Three Collaborative Design Methods for Diversity and Inclusion Innovation

Three human-centered design…

Co-designing for diverse communities

Can co-design be a starting point to a design framework built in mutual assistance and trust systems that can foster a connection between those who’s opinions are more relevant to designers?

CoDesign: An Inclusive Innovation Process

Our team has been working on the after school art education for youth, which has been pivoting in many directions as we move along with the process. In order to create a fully functional summer program that addresses the needs of the youth in the community…

Sharing Power while designing for vulnerable populations

There is a rising happening, of people wanting to contribute to a social need. But do we have the right tools to address them? More so do we have the right mentalities to approach them?

Making for resilient youth

We have been exploring, understanding and modelling community resilience in the San Franciscan neighborhood of the Fillmore. We are a class of graduate students studying Interaction Design at the California College of the Arts. We are slowly transitioning out of the initial phase…