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Tiramisu: Pick Me Up

Like music or poetry, tiramisu defies categorization. It is multifaceted in taste, aesthetic, ingredients, and even origin stories. While officially considered to have been invented in the 1960s in “L

Season 3

Season 3: Fashionable All-Weather Boots

WIG: Happy Socks

Socks are usually not the focus of one’s outfit, at least for adults. While kids’ socks tend to be bright and colorful, adult socks are typically muted, with subtle patterns if any. Happy Socks, a Swe

WIG: Swiffer

Cleaning up can be quite a chore, especially in a college dorm. The Swiffer is perfectly designed to make this as easy and quick as possible. Setting it up with the wet-wipe base takes less than 30 se

WIG: Headspace Meditation App

Headspace is one of the leading meditation apps in the market, and something I use almost everyday. It is very well designed in several ways. Its content is high-quality, and varied enough to cater to

WIG: Patagonia Parka

Patagonia products have a well-established reputation for quality. I’ve been using my parka for two and a half years, and it is comfortable and warm, with a detachable inner jacket suitable for warmer

WIG: StandSteady Standing Desk

I use a simple fold-up standing desk from StandSteady. Its height is adjustable, so that when I’m sitting I use the minimum height to have my laptop at eye level, and when I’m standing I raise it to t

WIG: Swatch

Swatch seems to be one of the most popular watch brands in an affordable price range. The factors that make them desirable are: (1) Ability – their prices give the average consumer a good number of op

WIG: Jawbone Portable Speakers

I am a music aficionado and find that portable speakers are a difficult product to get right. The major tradeoff is between price and quality – speakers with genuinely desirable sound quality tend to

WIG: Dyson Airblade Hand Dryer

Hand dryers are usually a pet peeve of mine. As an environmentally conscious person, I would prefer to use a hand dryer over a paper towel, but the vast majority of hand dryers I have come across are

WIG: Down Jacket

The down jacket is such a great invention. The tradeoff between warmth and heaviness/thickness of clothing can be a nuisance not only while wearing clothes, but also while travelling in cold weather.

WIG: Gmail

I have used Gmail for several years and find it to be very well designed. Email is mundane and can also be stressful, particularly because of the inbox clutter produced by having multiple emails from

WIG: Classic dorm room fold-up chair

I was debated whether to make this a WIG or not, and ended up deciding to do so. This product typically may not strike one as an example of desirable design – not particularly aesthetic and certainly

WIG: iPod Nano

The iPod Nano is no longer in production (at least, not that I know of), which makes me very sad because I absolutely loved mine when I used it. This was one of the early, non-clunky forms of the iPod

Challenge 12: Viewpoint

Link to a demo video of the prototype, recorded through a Unity laptop interface: https://vimeo.com/336475765 Viewpoint is a Virtual Reality (VR) app that aims to reduce anxiety by changing perspectiv