Prospective transfer students often encounter obstacles when preparing to transfer to a four-year university. The process can be complex and difficult to navigate, resulting in a lower success rate and a higher risk of dropping out. Working with the University of Washington's student service department, we aimed to improve our support systems for transfer students and develop "Dawgtransfer". Dawgtransfer is a comprehensive platform featuring accessible and user-friendly tools that helps transfer students in Washington State navigate the transfer process more efficiently, while reducing workloads for academic advisors.

Juno is a mobile application that provides evidence-based recovery protocols to patients recovering from C-section surgery. The app, created in partnership with medical professionals and recovery experts at UW Medicine, aims to reduce the incidence of post-surgery complications in the first weeks after surgery through daily check-ins, home care routines, and communication with medical staff, addressing the problem: "How might low-income mothers who have received a cesarean surgery within the Greater Seattle Area receive information on recovery care and warning signs of complications so that they can improve recovery outcomes in the first two weeks after surgery?"

Responsible for languages such as Klingon and Dothraki, constructed language creators invent the grammar, phonology, and lexicon of fictional languages - a practice known as “conlanging”. Despite the growing popularity of conlanging, conlangers lack sufficient tools to document their languages. In turn, conlangers devote significant time and effort towards recording information by-hand. In this capstone project our team collaborated with renowned conlangers David Peterson and Jessie Sams to create LangTime Engine, an application that simplifies the process of recording a conlang’s lexicon. As a result, we hope to ease the manual burden of conlangers and to make conlanging more accessible.

Designed for young adults who are living away from home for the first time, LookingGlass helps those living in shared households reduce food waste and over purchasing. App features include food inventory tracking, the ability to sort inventory by different categories such as expiration date, quantity, and location, joining a shared fridge with other members in your household, and offering up and claiming any extra or unused food from your roommates. These features allow users to track what's in their fridge while also encouraging sharing in order to reduce food waste.

With the expanding growth of music streaming platforms and subscriptions, listeners around the world use music as a way of expression and personal enjoyment. However, there are flaws within the music recommendation algorithms which recycle oversaturated content, lack transparency, and have innate popularity bias. Our app, Moments, aims to combat restrictive algorithms by giving users autonomy in the music discovery process. Through profiles and a map interface, people can discover and share music in an organic way by exploring others' music tastes around them. But that's just our Moment, what's yours?

As children around the world are spending less time outdoors compared to previous generations, their screen time has increased. This can negatively impact their nature-related science learning, as well as cause a decline in their behavioral and emotional development. NatureCollections is a mobile app that seeks to harness the power of emerging technologies to engage elementary school children in an exploration of the natural world. Leveraging kids’ love for collecting things, the app encourages kids to go outside and have fun while developing a stronger connection with their natural surroundings.

Prompty is a platform designed to bridge the gap between generations of immigrant families who have become disconnected due to distance. It simplifies long-distance communication by offering prompts for sharing personal experiences, language, and traditions, thereby facilitating stronger connections between distant relatives. The platform serves as a central hub for storing family photos and videos, while also enabling the exchange of cherished memories, recipes, and songs. Prompty is user-friendly and intuitive, designed to be accessible even to those who are not tech-savvy. Through Prompty, families can effortlessly bridge the gap and nurture their relationships, regardless of the distance separating them.

The high cost of traditional education and career-switching makes it challenging for people to break into the tech industry. Smash is a startup that addresses this problem by providing underserved learners with accessible project-based learning opportunities. Our platform allows users to get paid by participating in projects from leading tech companies, personalize their learning experience with surveys, and track their progress with a dashboard and auto-filled resume. Our mission is to help learners acquire in-demand tech skills to succeed while creating a more diverse tech industry by providing access to real-world experiences and career and networking opportunities for all.

As the performing arts industry evolves, so too must the virtual presence of organizations in the space. The goal of our Capstone is to develop a next generation website for Abbey Arts, a local nonprofit with limited resources to invest in modernizing its digital marketing. After conducting user testing, we built our solution utilizing Webflow with custom integrations for a seamless migration from the current tech stack. This new website will enable Abbey Arts to attract more attendees and performers, bolster its venue rental reputation, improve its search engine optimization, and better connect the Seattle community to accessible performing arts.