Helping students discover and build personalized itineraries — Background Traveling to a new city is stressful. So many factors such as age, travel reasons, and money impact what people want from their travel experience. Awarded: Most Customer-Centric UX Meet the Team Timeline Here is an overview of what we accomplished over six weeks.

On a Cleaning Roll with a Friendly Troll — Background This project was part of a 6-week design sprint for Design Interactive, a student-run design agency at the University of California, Davis, where our team had the opportunity to create Chroll- an app to help housemates accomplish household chores in a fun and hassle-free way! Awarded: Best Prototype Meet the Team

Reimagining university ride-sharing. — Background Ridesharing has become a popular way to save money and be more eco-friendly. The UCD Rideshare FB group is the most common carpooling platform at UCD, with 31.9k members. However, Students struggle with navigating through disorganized feeds and finding the right rides. Over the span of six weeks, our team…

Empowering mentees to form genuine connections with mentors — Project Overview Context Joining the workforce is a major challenge for new professionals jumping into the industry. A mentor’s guidance can help ease this process, but many find networking with more experienced professionals to be quite intimidating. Thus, we were prompted with the challenge: How might we create a platform that facilitates connections…

Welcome to Switchboard — revolutionizing student’s internship application organization and instilling a positive experience. We worked on this project during Spring Quarter 2022 at UC Davis from April 13 to May 25. …

Making Daily Communication Simple Background Info Facebook’s messaging app, Messenger, has been one of the most downloaded apps for years. Many discover the messaging platform through its integration within Facebook but often users defect to other apps such as iMessage as their main communication platforms. …

Keep the world talking — Background Applications: Figma | Time: 6 weeks, April 2022 — May 2022 Project Overview Released in 2003, Skype is a telecommunications software where users can make free video and voice calls in one-to-one or group settings, send instant messages, and share files among other features. The platform peaked in success in the 2000s…

Personalizing the student experience — Background Info Since its original founding on December 10, 1910, The Associated Students, University of California, Davis, or ASUCD has adapted to better serve the current student population. However, in order to do so, student needs have been recognized, validated, and addressed. Recently, our nation went through a phase of immense virtual…

A Redesign of the UC Davis Daily Symptom Survey — Design Interactive Fall ’21 Cohort Project Project Overview Context The Daily Symptom Survey is a COVID-19 screening survey that was developed by UC Davis during the onset of the pandemic. …