Howler addresses the challenge of providing a supportive platform for University of Washington students grappling with self-expression. Our journaling application nurtures a positive, safe, and creative community, enabling students to articulate thoughts and concerns through daily prompts. Howler provides a platform for expressive exploration, empowering students to confront personal and professional obstacles while building connections with peers. By fostering reflection and a sense of solidarity, Howler cultivates a supportive environment, advocating for well-being and promoting a community culture on campus, ultimately enriching the lives of University of Washington students.

HuskySync serves as a centralized hub for students navigating the challenges of rigorous introductory courses at UW. First-year students encounter prerequisite courses with large enrollments, which can feel overwhelming in regards to performing well. Managing both the academic workload and the social dynamics can significantly impact one's ability to study effectively. To address this challenge, we developed a platform where students can collaboratively engage with study materials. By enabling multiple students to upload their study notes, HuskySync generates personalized quizzes tailored to each user. In essence, we transform individual tests into shared quests, fostering a collaborative approach to learning.

Subletting is a common solution for University of Washington students struggling to cover high rents during breaks. However, finding suitable tenants often proves difficult. This financial pressure led our team to develop a reliable platform that connects UW leaseholders with potential tenants. Using detailed search filters, users can find properties that fit their needs and communicate directly with leaseholders. Simple listing instructions enable leaseholders to easily add their properties and manage tenant requests. Our platform offers an essential solution to the subleasing challenges faced by UW students and also helps those seeking short-term accommodation in the UW area.

The purpose of this project was to research and produce a proposal for implementing the Brian Deer Classification System (BDCS) in the Archives and Library in the Atwood Resource Center at the Anchorage Museum. The intended changes will improve the searchability of library holdings and more respectfully reflect the diverse communities the museum serves and the knowledge that it stewards. This project is in line with the museum’s stated goal to support and implement decolonizing practices.

The Military Legal Resource Collection was adopted by the LoC, originally from the William Winthrop Memorial Library at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG)’s Legal Center and School. Over time the collection has grown by building on top of it's legacy information architecture, and thus this project aims to review this collection in its entirety to propose changes for a more uniform, accessible, and comprehensive navigation and user experience for LoC visitors. Additionally, due to the collection's history with JAG, this capstone will be mindful its historical legacy to JAG and make appropriate suggestions with care and respect.

The Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations digital collections in the Law Library of Congress require updated organization and metadata to optimize user experience. This project reviewed these and other FR / CFR collections to identify solutions for improving UX / UI design. The primary deliverable of this Capstone project is a whitepaper report highlighting opportunities for improvement and providing recommendations to enhance accessibility, organization, and navigation in the collections. The project will broaden access to free legal resources that researchers—particularly nonprofits and small organizations—can use to further their work, saving them time and resources.

Stroke can have severe impacts on individuals, including paralysis and speech impairments. To address this, many patients meet with various therapists and complete assigned exercises to improve their mobility and cognitive abilities. However, this is found to be inefficient and unmotivating for stroke patients. To address this, we’ve created inStroketor, a stroke rehabilitation website that provides an individualized and clear rehabilitation progress plan, the ability to walk through rehabilitation exercises step-by-step, and resources to connect with other stroke patients local to you. Through effortless progress monitoring, inStroketor empowers patients and improves their recovery journey in a fun, adoptable manner!

Flickr Foundation provided a design brief and call to action for students to reimagine information preservation, cultural stewardship, and the future of memory work in an open culture setting. Over 10 weeks students assessed and debated how digitized photography collections should be stored, described, and accessed now and in the future. Taking on board critical concerns around social justice, decolonization, generative AI, and sustainability, students crafted new proposals to assist Flickr Foundation’s planning as a “life boat”, “bunker”, and time capsule for other people’s visual memories.Students: Joshua Auvaa, Dorothy Clement, Umme-Kulsum Darugar,Allyson Wang Graylin, Ariba Aswad Janoo, Jainaba Jawara, Eric Von Carlos II Latham, Michael Quoc Pham, Archita Singh, Chun Hin Matthew So, Cecelia Kaulawena Thomas, Olivia Wei, Qinruo Yang, Sonia Yeh, Yunjing Zhang, Xingyuan Zhao

This project was a novel experiment where students researched the intersection of music recording and artificial intelligence. They examined the distribution of music as an information medium, and ways in which music serves purposes beyond just entertainment. Then, students composed music - regardless of any prior experience playing an instrument or musical education - at Odegaard and Area 01 Sound Lab recording studios with Large Language Models (LLMs) as members of their musical ensembles. Students produced three song EPs of their musical compositions with LLMs and released them to Spotify and other streaming services.  This project was sponsored by Fishing Comets Farm, a Seattle-based record label.Students: Xinyu Chang, Kassy Chaput, Brian Chien, Mike Deng, Lily Dong, Kexuan Feng, Lewis Going, Jake Harper, Kunyang Li, Lydia Lin, Siyu Lin, Luna Liu, Maria Mayuzhuo, Shammu Meyyappan, Sloane Shea, Joshua Shin, Danny Yue, Zhuoyi Zhao (Informatics)