With the increasing popularity of online marketplaces, more and more people are buying and selling items they no longer need. However, individuals who only require temporary use of products may find buying them outright to be both costly and unnecessary. Unfortunately, finding a reliable and convenient platform for renting items…

Background A new way to “bee” productive, Buzzy Bee is a platform for students to seek accountability from their peers in order to track and reach their goals. In the span of 6 weeks, our team followed a human-centric approach to create an application that encourages student to stay committed to…

Background This project was created during a 6-week design sprint at Davis Design Interactive, UC Davis’s first human-centered design group with a multidisciplinary community focused on creating impactful, innovative solutions. Awarded Most Innovative UX and Best UX Research Meet the Team!

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. Its plethora of features makes…