This course offers an opportunity to learn a human-centered design perspective and develop experience design competency in the complex context of civic interactions. We will investigate the individual and collective civic experience of preparing for, living through, and working to confront precarity, displacement, and disenfranchisement. Through a combination of readings, short design assignments, and a semester-long studio project, we will use design research methods to probe issues of access, adoption, identity, privacy, and participation as they relate to addressing present and complex social issues.

This course is an introduction to Human-Centered Computing and user-centered design process. You will be introduced to a number of different techniques and tools for understanding particular interaction design challenges, you will develop scenarios and storyboards, create low-fidelity prototypes, and iterate on those prototypes to create a final design project.

The goal of the VoterTech VIP team is to investigate factors that affect voter turnout among college students and developing technologies to support students as they seek information about how to vote while at school. This includes understanding school policies on voting, absentee and early voting, voter registration, and transportation to and from polling places.