Capstone Projects | Information School | University of Washington

Zest

When people find recipes online, they bookmark them for later use—but now, through Zest, you can adjust serving sizes, convert unit measurements, and save recipes all in one spot. Just copy and paste the recipe URL into Zest, then customize to your own taste. Don’t make cooking a test, use Zest!

Actively Me: Taxonomy design for an outdoor activities app

Actively Me is an app that centralizes outdoor activity discovery, selection, and planning. A major element of the app is the ability to match users to activities based on individual preferences and temporal factors. The goal of this project was to construct a functional and scalable taxonomy that successfully addresses the information architecture and user needs of the app. Facets,terms, and structure were identified through combination of domain research, user surveys, and card sort testing.

Argos

We set out to address the problem of forgetfulness the stress that comes with it. We built a hub that connects with smart home devices. It learns from your interactions and notifies you with actionable reminders. If you leave a light on and we predict that it should we off, we will send you a notification and let your turn the light off from your phone. Our project makes a difference because it allows people to go about their lives without the constant worry that they forgot to do something.

Bloom

Trauma isn't linear. For trauma survivors, processing and organizing memories can be difficult. Sharing them even more so. Yet it can be deeply therapeutic. Bloom is a storytelling platform for trauma survivors. Bloom empowers users to create anonymous accounts, build stories through text and images that can be easily rearranged, and see stories from other survivors. By providing a safe place for survivors to share their experiences, we hope to help with the healing process. We collaborated with API Chaya, a Seattle nonprofit that serves survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.

Build-A-Resume

In today’s competitive job market, your resume can’t just be good, it has to be exceptional. Build-A-Resume creates custom resumes catered to your dream job to provide the ultimate competitive edge. Build your profile, provide us your desired job posting, and let us do the rest! Within seconds your fully catered and customized resume will be ready for recruiters to approve for an interview. Let us ease your job search stress by giving you a resume that best showcases your value and gets you noticed by all recruiters in a blink of an eye.

Captikl

The issue of knowledge transfer is unique, especially when the context is cultural and the target demographic is young. Our project seeks to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Striving to bring traditional means of information transmittal into the modern era, our project will capture the attention of a younger audience by building an easy-to-use mobile app that teaches users while they play. By digitizing the Colville Tribes’ cultural heritage, our project hopes to solve the information problem regarding the decline of oral transmittal of culture and language.

Cicero

Busy students and professionals spend too much time rereading material to study or learn. While notes help with studying faster — few people have the time to write notes for everything. This results in inefficient review of materials, the loss of precious time, and losing crucial information by skimming content. Enter Cicero, a cutting edge web service that leverages advanced technologies to auto-generate notes for individuals with heavy readings. With Cicero, users will be able to save time by generating customizable summarized notes of study material they have already read before.

Designing The Next Generation In-Car Experience

Today’s Interactive in-car systems have failed to provide the necessary comfort, safety, and experience expected of them. Part of the problem is the rapid addition of more advanced in-car components and flashy screens that lack the right user-centered approach and integration. We aim to bridge the divide through the next generation in-car experience for daily commuters. This will improve their interaction with in-car systems helping them accomplish secondary tasks while driving safely. To specify our design scope, we focus on the design of the instrument cluster, head up display and central console touchscreen for cars.

Devour

We aim to solve the age old question “What should we eat for dinner?” Devour solves this problem and provides key recipes that every individual in your party will enjoy. We recognize that eating is more than just an individual act, and embrace that personalization goes beyond the individual. Applications like Netflix and Pandora have disrupted their respective industries by providing their specific user with recommended results. Our application takes it even further. Instead of stopping at providing key recipes for the individual user (which we do), we incorporate everyone in your party to enjoy the fruits of our application.

Eligo

When shopping in grocery stores, nutrition labels can be difficult to read - especially in regards to dietary restrictions. Eligo solves this issue by allowing users to efficiently analyze nutrition labels from consumer food products. Shoppers will be able to scan food products using their Eligo app to get informative alerts about any ingredients that may violate dietary restrictions. These alerts apply to the shopper as well as to any friends/family who consume the food products. As a result, Eligo transforms the shopping paradigm by empowering users with the technology to make quick and safe decisions when purchasing food.

iSchool Capstone

2018