Projects | Masters of Industrial Design

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Class: Charrette, Methods, Studio, Thesis
Type: Organizational Design, Service Design, Interaction Design

Remás

Remittances are big business. We worked with a non-profit to simplify what has traditionally been a complex system.

PhillyPath.com

Earth and Patience

Good Day Door

The choice to make positive change in outlook is your own.

Reconsider

Earth and Consideration

UArts Enrollment Project

MiD worked with the University of the Arts to rethink the school enrollment process. The end result was a graphical user interface that helped progress the universities capabilities.

Balance Bench

How balanced are you? This bench is designed with a center of gravity that is off-center, encouraging people to interact with the each other to keep things balanced.

Water Bake Sale

There is a worldwide water crisis. Many people do not have access to safe clean drinking water. Yet, it only costs $1000 to install a fresh water well in these areas.

Bubble Trouble

Air and Humor

Making Visible the Unspoken

Charrette group 518A: Water and Honesty

Illuminate

This interactive display is intended as an offering to our industrial design community.

Humble Stumble

Provoking a humbling experience in a fixed location.

M.I.T.S. Music Interface for Touch Screen

Digital music sequencers traditionally loop in a linear pattern. Why canʼt the loop follow a more natural circular orbit and resemble its function more closely?

Humantic Design

The science & design of sustainable collaborations

UV Clean

'UV Clean' was the solution to a problem purposed during Charrette 2009 entitled, 'Swing Design: Money Exchange.'

Consider Quality

Consider quality in a consumer discounted world

eContact: Eye contact for video chat

How could eye tracking be used to facilitate online communication?

PIXEL

What if you could see through other peoples' eyes? Would this allow you to understand their narratives?

Love Philly Local Food

Promoting Food Access in Philadelphia Through Urban Agriculture

UArts Portal

How can University of the Arts use a large scale multi-touch interface to connect its population?

Response, Feedback, and Collaboration in Web Based Distance Education

Distance Education is boring. Chatroulette is fun, engaging, and spontaneous. What happens when the two of these unlikely characters get together?

Distance Knowledge Transfer

Exloring the current untapped potential of on-line education

Co-designing Business

What can you do when the current economic climate forces you to rethink your current business model and behavior?

Intersecting Civility

Pedestrians, motorists, and cyclists all interact together in shared areas. How can we increase civility in these shared areas?

Studio Next: Finance

A video recap of a cross-department collaborative effort to address issues within the Finance Office at University of the Arts.

Terra Hall Recycling Project

Aiming to tackle the problem of waste disposal at UArts: confusion.

Administrative Task Force Project

A team of students was asked to help a University strategic planning group work more effectively to imagine the future of the University of the Arts.

Tactile Dashboard

The Tactile Dashboard is a lo-tech process management tool that relies on the use of simple touchscreen technology, a user interface & physical interaction to communicate and adjust project timelines.

Philadelphia Green Kitchen Project

This yearlong research project was devoted to understanding the effects and connection points of the kitchen as a complex physical and social system.

Fair-trade Coffee Guide

The socially responsible coffee guide was created to help coffee drinkers find fair-trade coffee in Philadelphia.

Murals Against Crime

This guide investigates the positive impacts of the Mural Arts Program's initiative to combat the high crime rate in Philadelphia by bringing together communities in the creation of murals.

Cooking up a Restaurant

An urban restaurant guide for Center City Philadelphia, directed toward aspiring restaurant entrepreneurs.

New Measures

On average we spend 49.5 minutes preparing, cooking, eating and cleaning in the kitchen each day. Yet 33% of all household resources pass through this space.

Roleplaying Cards

Group meetings rarely go according to plan. Can design help?

Campbell's

A collaboration with the Campbell’s Corporation in Camden

Mobile Living

Mobile Living investigates the personalities, culture, network and technological systems already in place and evolving in the new lifestyle of mobile living.