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California College of the Arts
In The Not So Distant Future
The Interaction Design Class of 2020 design projects that meet the challenges and opportunities of our coming future.
Thanks to: Graham Plumb, Gretchen Anderson
Participating Students
- Anchi Hsin
- Aosheng Ran
- Gina Kim
- Hridae Walia
- Jamie Catt
- Jay Wang
- Jessica Yang
- Kendra Wong
- Kendra Wong
- Nathalia Kasman
- Rita Lei
- Ruitao Liang
- Sherrie Guan
- SungMin Alvin Kim
- Tara Lin
- Tianyi Huang
- Will Liang
- Xi (Claire) Zhou
- Yuan Gao
Anchi Hsin
I'm Anchi— an interaction designer, based in San Francisco, and originally from Taiwan.
Design allows us to share and expand our experiences, and I aim to inspire empathy and create social impact through interactive design work.
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Anchi Hsin
I'm Anchi— an interaction designer, based in San Francisco, and originally from Taiwan.
Design allows us to share and expand our experiences, and I aim to inspire empathy and create social impact through interactive design work.
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Aosheng Ran
Semilattice is a vision for a personal workspace for learning, organizing, and iterating knowledge with a fluid content structure and associative connections.
Aosheng Ran is an interaction designer aspiring to build systems and technologies that empower individuals and communities.
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Aosheng Ran
Semilattice is a vision for a personal workspace for learning, organizing, and iterating knowledge with a fluid content structure and associative connections.
Aosheng Ran is an interaction designer aspiring to build systems and technologies that empower individuals and communities.
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Gina Kim
As a designer, Gina Kim is intrigued by creating experiences that bring people together in a digital era. Rather than focusing on how digital media can be implemented in people's lives, she aims to use digital media to improve how people engage with each other. She is interested in learning about the future of integrating automation and emerging technologies to create deeper relationships between people and their environments. Her portfolio can be viewed here.
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Gina Kim
As a designer, Gina Kim is intrigued by creating experiences that bring people together in a digital era. Rather than focusing on how digital media can be implemented in people's lives, she aims to use digital media to improve how people engage with each other. She is interested in learning about the future of integrating automation and emerging technologies to create deeper relationships between people and their environments. Her portfolio can be viewed here.
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Hridae Walia
I am an interaction designer. I like to tinker with technology and experiment with design. My focus is on digital and environmental sustainability by giving people the freedom and ability to make better decisions for themselves.
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Hridae Walia
I am an interaction designer. I like to tinker with technology and experiment with design. My focus is on digital and environmental sustainability by giving people the freedom and ability to make better decisions for themselves.
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Jamie Catt
I'm an Interaction Designer from Manila, now based in the Bay Area. Currently interested in exploring the intersection between physical and digital experiences.
BentoBeats was an out-of-box idea that resulted from my curiosity on cross-sensory experiences.
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BentoBeats
A virtual sound-tasting experience!
A Quick Demo
Curious to know how BentoBeats work?
Preparing Your Bento
Grab some snack, set your headphones and have fun!
Bento Player
Create a sound mix for your food!
The 6 BentoFlavors
Listen to the symphony of flavors.
Sneak Peek: Bento Library
Discover other people's BentoBeats!
Jamie Catt
I'm an Interaction Designer from Manila, now based in the Bay Area. Currently interested in exploring the intersection between physical and digital experiences.
BentoBeats was an out-of-box idea that resulted from my curiosity on cross-sensory experiences.
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Jay Wang
Originally from Arizona, I have just recently completed my Interaction Design (BFA) studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Currently looking for part-time and full-time Product design or UX design positions.
Portfolio site: jaysdesign.net
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Jay Wang
Originally from Arizona, I have just recently completed my Interaction Design (BFA) studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Currently looking for part-time and full-time Product design or UX design positions.
Portfolio site: jaysdesign.net
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Jessica Yang
My name is Jessica, and I'm a designer that just graduated from the California College of the Arts with a BFA in Interaction Design.
I believe experiences are as diverse as the people who encounter them, and am fascinated by the ways design can help shape our behaviors for the better. I come from an illustration background, which often shows in my work.
My senior thesis is called Potluck, a cooking experience that uses augmented recipes to enhance the connections created while making food with others. Potluck explores how the way a recipe is formatted and presented can change how the people making it collaborate together. This project was created by understanding the social dynamics present when people cook together, accounting for both the highlights and the less savory aspects of coordinating multiple cooks in the kitchen.
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Jessica Yang
My name is Jessica, and I'm a designer that just graduated from the California College of the Arts with a BFA in Interaction Design.
I believe experiences are as diverse as the people who encounter them, and am fascinated by the ways design can help shape our behaviors for the better. I come from an illustration background, which often shows in my work.
My senior thesis is called Potluck, a cooking experience that uses augmented recipes to enhance the connections created while making food with others. Potluck explores how the way a recipe is formatted and presented can change how the people making it collaborate together. This project was created by understanding the social dynamics present when people cook together, accounting for both the highlights and the less savory aspects of coordinating multiple cooks in the kitchen.
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Kendra Wong
I was born and bred in the SF Bay Area. As a student at California College of the Arts, I've had the chance to connect both logic and creativity through studying Interaction Design.
I get to think from different perspectives - whether it's a twenty-something year old female or fifty year old man.
As designers, we have the opportunity to shape and impact how we interact with the world around us, create experiences for all - creativity with universal design.
Outside of student life, you can find me binging on the latest Netflix series or binging on new foods.
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My project Making Sense pushes participants to explore their senses by focusing on each sense through short activities. All activities are done with eyes closed, as the inspiration stemmed from a project focusing on accessibility for the blind. The project started as a physical, participatory exhibit and was transferred into the virtual world.
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Making Sense - Home Page
Touch - Example Sense Page
From the home page, users can explore one of the listed senses - touch, taste, smell, hearing. Each page includes the sense title, a tidbit out the sense, and written and photo instructions, including .gifs.
Touch - Example .gif paired with the instructions
Each page includes .gifs to help visually explain steps.
Previous Colorway/User Testing
"Making Sense" started as a physical exhibit and then transformed into a digital experience. User testing was completed via video chat. The pictured testing was done with a previous colorway.
Kendra Wong
I was born and bred in the SF Bay Area. As a student at California College of the Arts, I've had the chance to connect both logic and creativity through studying Interaction Design.
I get to think from different perspectives - whether it's a twenty-something year old female or fifty year old man.
As designers, we have the opportunity to shape and impact how we interact with the world around us, create experiences for all - creativity with universal design.
Outside of student life, you can find me binging on the latest Netflix series or binging on new foods.
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My project Making Sense pushes participants to explore their senses by focusing on each sense through short activities. All activities are done with eyes closed, as the inspiration stemmed from a project focusing on accessibility for the blind. The project started as a physical, participatory exhibit and was transferred into the virtual world.
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Kendra Wong
I was born and bred in the SF Bay Area. As a student at California College of the Arts, I've had the chance to connect both logic and creativity through studying interaction design.
I get to think from different perspectives - whether I'm a twenty-something year old female or fifty year old man.
Outside of student life, you can find me binging on the latest Netflix series or binging on new foods.
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Kendra Wong
I was born and bred in the SF Bay Area. As a student at California College of the Arts, I've had the chance to connect both logic and creativity through studying interaction design.
I get to think from different perspectives - whether I'm a twenty-something year old female or fifty year old man.
Outside of student life, you can find me binging on the latest Netflix series or binging on new foods.
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Nathalia Kasman
Nathalia Kasman is an Interaction Designer passionate about crafting experiences that bring people together. In her senior thesis project, Micromindfulness, she investigates the ways in which phone addiction can be mitigated through small interventions.
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Nathalia Kasman
Nathalia Kasman is an Interaction Designer passionate about crafting experiences that bring people together. In her senior thesis project, Micromindfulness, she investigates the ways in which phone addiction can be mitigated through small interventions.
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Rita Lei
Hi, I'm Rita Lei
A user experience designer with an interest in frontend
An extreme user of food delivery service
A beginner of writing
A nut of learning
Since I was born and raised in Chengdu, China, a city famous for its diverse and tasty food, I was inspired by the amazing food and convenient services here and gradually became a foodie with a strong curiosity about how food impacted people's lives. Many of my projects are related to healthy dining and convenience services, so does my senior thesis project Foodiversity Check it out :)
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Rita Lei
Hi, I'm Rita Lei
A user experience designer with an interest in frontend
An extreme user of food delivery service
A beginner of writing
A nut of learning
Since I was born and raised in Chengdu, China, a city famous for its diverse and tasty food, I was inspired by the amazing food and convenient services here and gradually became a foodie with a strong curiosity about how food impacted people's lives. Many of my projects are related to healthy dining and convenience services, so does my senior thesis project Foodiversity Check it out :)
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Ruitao Liang
Ruitao is an interaction designer based in the East Bay. She enjoys strategizing and building things that are people-centric and essential. For the last two years, She has been working at Tech Exchange, a non-profit organization, providing digital literacy training for residents of senior centers in the Bay Area. Inspired by the interactions with the elderly residents, she wanted to find ways that her design practice could support the community. After speaking with over 50 elderly people, it became clear that many of them want to improve their health. Since she learned that from the research, she decided to create a digital social fitness game, which features motion tracking and music visualization as her senior thesis.
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Ruitao Liang
Ruitao is an interaction designer based in the East Bay. She enjoys strategizing and building things that are people-centric and essential. For the last two years, She has been working at Tech Exchange, a non-profit organization, providing digital literacy training for residents of senior centers in the Bay Area. Inspired by the interactions with the elderly residents, she wanted to find ways that her design practice could support the community. After speaking with over 50 elderly people, it became clear that many of them want to improve their health. Since she learned that from the research, she decided to create a digital social fitness game, which features motion tracking and music visualization as her senior thesis.
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