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StylPro+: A High-Tech Makeup Brush Cleanser

The Problem: How do you clean your makeup brushes? Professionals recommend cleaning your makeup brushes at least once a week, but people rarely do so because of the time-consuming process. However,

Whole Foods

Whole Foods is a high-end supermarket chain that emphasizes natural and organic ingredients. The retailer is also perceived to be diet-friendly as they carry many specialty products that cater to vega

Coachella

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is the largest event of its kind in North America. Held in Indio, California over two weekends in April, the festival attracts more than 125,000+ attendees

Moda Operandi

Moda Operandi is a luxury retailer whose key source of differentiation is the use of the pretail model. The platform allows consumers to shop the runway via digital trunkshows: a concept whereby you c

Daily Harvest

Daily Harvest is a disruptive frozen meal delivery service whose ingredients are built on healthy, plant-based foods. The startup offers healthy food delivered to your door, ready to be whipped up and

The Birkin Bag

The Birkin Bag is the signature product crafted by Hermès. The bag is essentially a status symbol in the world of fashion and high society. The Birkin is a symbol of taste, refinement, and excellence

Trader Joe’s Riced Cauliflower

With the increasing popularity of the ketogenic diet, riced cauliflower has become a hot commodity. Because cauliflower is low in carbohydrates yet high in fiber, it has become a natural substitution

AdmitSee

AdmitSee is a startup in the edtech space that provides users access to a database of successful college application essays and resumes. The service is a goldmine of data. Users are permitted to “unlo

SoulCycle

SoulCycle is a global fitness phenomenon that has revolutionized indoor cycling and taken the world of workouts by storm. The company is a pioneer of the boutique fitness movement with its specialized

Barnes and Noble Education

Barnes and Noble Education is the scholastic arm of the bookseller. This branch of the company partners with elementary, middle, and high schools as well as colleges and universities to sell textbooks

Gainwell 21-Day Portion Control Container Kit

Research on the psychology of eating reveals that people consume more when they aren’t fully aware of their portion sizes, which often leads to overindulgence. With increasing awareness of this phenom

Skyview Commons

Welcome to the Harvard Skyview: Common Spaces. Reimagined. Located at the Harvard University Richard A. and Susan. F. Smith Campus Center, the Skyview is an overhead screen that projects dynamic, thou

Behance: Where Instagram Meets Design

Envision a platform where Instagram meets graphic design. Behance is a social media platform owned by Adobe that allows users to showcase their design portfolio. You can also stream content like tutor

Product and Experience Design for Desirability

Yes, I’m a woman of simple pleasures. It doesn’t really take much to inspire and move me. Design Survivor has to be one of my favorite courses of my undergraduate career. I am often struck by the qual

How I Built This with Guy Raz

How I Built This is a podcast about “innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built” hosted by Guy Raz and produced by NPR. Each episode of the series features a

Surtsey Island

Surtsey Island, which is situated just off the coast of Iceland, is the world’s youngest piece of land. It was formed in a volcanic eruption on November 14th, 1963. Surtsey is the southernmost point o

Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends Animal Society is a registered 501(c)(3) animal welfare organization. I foster kittens with this nonprofit and it has been one of the most joyous and rewarding experiences of my life. Bes

Friend.ly

For this challenge, we designed for Yixuan, a friend of Wanxi’s who studies data science at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Yixuan is originally from China, and returned back home wh

Nourishly

We live in a world plagued by misinformation. From information about the novel coronavirus fraught with fallacy to fake news, consumers often have a difficult time sifting through bias and noise. Howe

Khan Academy

I’m fascinated by developments in the edtech space in the modern world. Each startup has taken a unique approach to delivering educational content online, but Khan Academy is perhaps among the biggest

MasterClass

MasterClass is an online education platform that allows users to take classes from experts in their field who are proclaimed to be the very best in the world. With MasterClass, users can take online c

Minerva

During the course of my interviews for the final project (including some that were later discarded since my project shifted direction from education to nutrition), I was informed of an online universi

Zoom

Zoom is a videoconferencing platform founded by Eric Yuan in 2011. Today, engagement with the platform has increased almost 1000% since the global outbreak of coronavirus. The popularity of Zoom is a

Outlier

Outlier is a platform founded by Aaron Rasmussen, one of the original cofounders of MasterClass, whose goal is to provide the world’s best online education. The platform delivers “high-quality, univer

Skillshare

I am fascinated by online learning platforms that are built for the digital age. Skillshare is a platform that enables users to pickup and learn any sort of niche creative skill like illustration, mar

Armarium

Today, fashion is pivoting to become more service-oriented and experiential. Many platforms are being established that cater to this need that is often fed by social media and the singularity of event

Dr. John Campbell on YouTube

We live in an age fraught with misinformation both federally and journalistically, especially when it comes to the global outbreak of coronavirus. Many educators are taking a grassroots movement to ed

Vanity Fair’s Fact Check at Home

Although we’re in the midst of a global pandemic, entertainment and media outlets have continued to produce content from home. Vanity Fair is just one among many of these media outlets that has shifte

The Hygienehook

Necessity often breeds creativity and innovation. WIth the global outbreak of coronavirus, we are witnessing invention on a scale not seen in years past. With the increased sensitivity around touch an