In the age of the solo bedroom producer, the art of music production has moved away from collaboration, towards competition. We believe that cultivating a community centered around growth can enable musicians to break through creative blocks while creating meaningful connections. Produce Music is a community platform by musicians for musicians, with the perfect tools for giving feedback, collaborating, and learning. The grand vision of Produce is to unite people through the power of music production, helping people intertwine their creative journeys while each developing their own, unique way to express their vision and emotions. Let's start creating together again.

In the age of ubiquitous information, museums are challenged with providing a unique and dynamic visitor experience. The Pacific Science Center, one of world’s leading science museums, is faced with a similar dilemma for its “Dinosaurs: Journey Through Time” exhibit. Project Alive employs Magic Leap One's spatial computing to simulate a mixed reality experience of the Mesozoic Era (252-66 million years ago) that is both immersive, and informative. Based on extensive user interviews and surveys, Project Alive incorporates elements of surprise and visual ecstasy within an interactive storyline that would truly bring the dinosaurs back to life.

Electronic health records (EHR) systems are frustrating to use and suffer from a lack of information sharing. This is due to the absence of a standardized record transmission protocol, which impacts doctors and patients alike. Unfortunately, patients have no input about the technology that stores and shares their sensitive health information. Project Gravity aims to remedy this by giving patients, along with healthcare professionals, a voice in a centralized forum. Together we can positively shape the future of our medical records.

The City of Seattle provides effective information to Seattleites through their website – www.seattle.gov. Seattle IT struggles to understand user behavior and effectiveness of their website. They spend a lot of time creating content. However, they are unclear if this content is surfaced in ways that are comprehensible for users. Our project is an effort to develop a KPI-based framework that content creators can use to understand users and enhance the discoverability of content. Through our holistic and comprehensive framework, Seattle IT can regularly track performance and drive continuous improvement of the online experience that users and potential users have.

The Seattle Art Museum Research Libraries are non-circulating and hidden from the public. Promoting and providing access to their newly defined artists’ books collection is a challenge. This project provides access to a select number of artists’ books using a digital exhibit built with quality photographs, rich descriptive metadata, and context on the medium’s history. Artists’ books, as artworks that convey ideas and inspire, expand the notion of what museum libraries collect, broadens the audience it serves, and aids community building among (book) artists. The exhibited works highlight unique structures, regional artists, promote social justice, and/or collaborative projects.

People are constantly busy due to their hectic schedules, which ultimately leaves their lifestyle in total disarray. Individuals tend to rely on quick unhealthy solutions to satisfy their nutritional needs because they lack the effort and time to cook at home. Discovering a recipe that matches the number of their ingredients and equipment can also be a hassle. So how do we improve this process tenfold? With QuickTaste of course! QuickTaste is an intuitive interactive online cookbook that engages users, who wish to save money and reinstill home-cooked meals within their lives by providing a selection of vibrant 30-minute recipes.

Currently, large companies have many subcultures vested within various different departments and teams that each conduct themselves differently. This prevents potential employees from getting an accurate representation of their future expected experience. Rate my Employer is a platform that allows employees to vet out these smaller departments and teams within companies based on experiences of current or former employees. Users are able to provide reviews based on experiences with relations to salaries, company/team culture, and more. Furthermore, this platform allows employers to view their rankings and ratings in order to find potential improvement sources.

HEALWA is an online medical library that provides resources at no additional cost to eligible healthcare professionals in Washington State, in partnership with the WA Department of Health. HEALWA sponsored us to redesign their medical toolkits as part of their outreach and expansion project to increase utilization among potential users. We evaluated HEALWA’s toolkits for accessibility and functionality using their eJournals, eBooks, Databases, and Continuing Education materials, and we created new interdisciplinary toolkits for specific health topics. Our toolkit recommendations have the potential to improve health outcomes for Washington state residents by promoting healthcare provider access to clinical research information.

Commonly used classification systems often leave librarians and users in want of better way to organize their collections. Outdated language and irrelevant hierarchical structures privilege the access and dissemination of certain knowledges - a known problem in the world of Knowledge Organization. This research explores why classification systems should be considered an extension of an institution’s voice, and how these systems impact user experience in such spaces. Understanding classification systems as rhetorical devices can help librarians and users fully understand and intentionally use these tools to cultivate truly inclusive and equitable environments.