Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) is a reduced ability to distinguish colors, which currently affects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women globally. Individuals with CVD reported that they’ve faced judgments from their peers and teachers, especially in their teen years. However, few products in the current market address this issue. Thus, we aimed to help teenagers with CVD achieve reconciliation with themselves so that they can cope with CVD in a healthy way. We developed an interactive journal game about the emotional journey taken by a boy with color vision deficiency named Bobby — A Colorful View.

An increasing portion of the US population prefer making investments in companies or funds to achieve financial returns as well as positive social or environmental impacts. This is especially true for Muslim investors, who currently have few options for investing in a way that aligns with their religious beliefs. The financial health tool on the Aghaz Investments app allows customers to assess their financial situations by responding to questions which help generate a financial health score and then provide specific tips and recommendations on how users can improve.

Inclusive design is a methodology of making design choices that increases usability for the full range of diversity. Many intro-level designers are not aware of the definition, practice of, and need for inclusive design. The resulting products have bad user experiences for impaired users. To address this problem, we have designed an interactive game with challenges that reflect difficulties impaired users face when dealing with products. Through Awaken, we aim to raise the awareness of inclusive design, build empathy and understanding toward impairments through real-world stories, and ultimately influence more designers to make products that are usable for everyone.

Behance is an Adobe product where designers share their creative work. Behance’s help desk is set up on Zendesk, due to which the user interface of the FAQ page lacked homogeneity with the Behance website. The current page lacked intuitiveness, making it difficult for customers to find answers, leading to a bad user experience. In this project, we redesigned the FAQ module by rearranging information into concise categories using Behance’s theme, providing guided navigation, and kickstart with featured articles. This project will ensure customer satisfaction with a better User experience at this self-service portal and is expected to reduce customer support tickets.

To help the Xbox team determine which technology performs better at detecting unsafe images, our project builds a comparison system that evaluates the performance of two image detection algorithms. The key results include: 1) a system that takes user images and generates similarity scores automatically; 2) an analysis pipeline that analyzes the data in Python and is live-connected with Power BI to show the key metrics. With our pipelines, the Xbox team can easily plug in images and see the comparison results on the dashboards. It eventually improves user experience by helping moderators remove the bad content effectively.

Currently, there is no centralized social media platform for sports fans, or a way that teams can directly encourage fans to interact with their social media posts to further engagement. FanCentral is a social media platform for teams to share social media posts from various platforms to their fans. Teams can also reward fans for interacting with posts, incentivizing engagement. Fans are able to view detailed information and post history for their favorite teams and earn rewards by supporting their favorite teams.

It can be a pain to find a good group to work with in your classes. That’s why we created FindMyTeam. This application is a platform that will enable iSchool students to join and create teams with their peers, preview student profiles, and find team recommendations based on skills and interests. This can be entirely student-driven, but we want to encourage instructors to use this in their classes. Instructor users will be able to add students to their classes and form teams as well. Ideally, FindMyTeam will help students and instructors form teams that work well for each individual.

Hearing impairment is a common health issue among seniors in the US. Due to social stigma, costliness, and limited awareness, many do not seek help with their hearing health in time, or even at all. Moreover, the cost of hearing aids and audiologist appointments costs thousands even with insurance. Additionally, present smart technology pairing solutions are either unsuccessful, or designed inefficiently. Working with Sound Sustainability, a hearing health company, our project aims to not only provide resources for affordable OTC hearing aids, but also develop an easy-to-use mobile app that pairs with hearing devices and allows for easy consumer control.

Poor diet is the most common preventable cause of death in people 65 or older. Recently, there has been a hike in apps that promote healthy diets, but most are not designed for the elderly population. Also, since the elderly are disproportionately affected by the pandemic's remote solutions, supporting their needs is more urgent than ever. Olitor is a scalable solution to help change the diets of elderly patients. The online solution would focus on behavioral change, providing patients with timely attention and care in sensitive times such as the pandemic without waiting months for a consultation appointment.

With more than 1 billion people with disabilities worldwide, we believe that accessibility is essential and should not be left as an afterthought. Data visualizations are one area where accessibility lags behind. This is especially important for Power BI, a growing platform with over 5 million subscribers. Power BI creators have difficulties building accessible reports due to a lack of accessibility tools & standard guidelines on how to make visualizations accessible. Thus, we developed PowBility: a chrome extension that enables Power BI report creators to design accessible visualizations. PowBility aims to enable everyone to utilize visualizations to their full potential.