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Wearable Storytelling: Sweater/ Sweater Dress

I’m a huge fan of sweater dresses for their style and convenience. Although they are not (yet) as established to have a formal history, the evolution of sweaters is quite interesting. The earliest ha

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What I’ve Got: Kingii Flotation Device

This product is one of the most amazing advancements in design and technology in the realm of water safety. Kingii first started on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo and has since taken off in sales.

News App: Bookmark

Bookmark, a news app geared toward new smartphone users in India, provides the most up-to-date news and events coverage. The name refers to its layout shape and the recognition of duality in conventio

What I’ve Got: Withings

Fitbit started the trend for wearable fitness trackers and inspired many other companies to come up with their own. Withings is the most stylish and user-friendly fitness tracker on the market. Becaus

SimsGo: A Veil of Ignorance Game

“Veil of Ignorance” refers to philosopher John Rawls’ method of making policies without self interest. In his thought experiment, people who are making political decisions do not know the particular s

What I’ve Got: Ball String Lights

There are a variety of LED string lights to choose from when decorating a room. The oldest type is probably the thin cylinder-shaped Christmas string lights. Copper wired ones came into popularity re

Redfin “Hot Homes” Algorithm

Distinct from sites such as Amazon or Tinder, real estate website users typically have a specific goal in mind, whether that be the location, price, and/or size of the lot. After all, buying a house i

What I’ve Got: Creative Shopping Bags

Shopping bag is an incredible advertising opportunity. Not only can a store use it to advertise its brand (such as Macy’s recognizable star or Target’s bullseye), it can also vividly display a product

Challenge 3: Walleta

Walleta is an automated expense & budget tracking smartphone app primariily designed for 18 – 29 year old young adults. This group of individuals tend to have the most potential to save money but who

What I’ve Got: Tabletote Computer Stand

This gadget is the hero we need but don’t deserve. Ever since I started college, I’ve been looking for a portable, light, and compact computer stand that is also height-adjustable. It took seeing it

What I’ve Got: Ripeness Stickers

This ingenious idea solves the perpetual struggle of young/inexperienced/lazy shoppers and also makes use of the common fruit sticker! Certain fruits are common enough for shoppers to figure out thei

Challenge 4 — Ren to Learn: Courses for Everyone

Ren to Learn is a free evening and online school where new city workers can learn essential skills and connect for better further opportunities. The courses are either taught by university students in

What I’ve Got: Boxed Water (Design Fail?)

I came across this at Liquiteria last week and cannot figure out why someone would buy this over a regular bottle of water or just refill at a fountain. First, this seems harder to carry. The human h

Challenge 5: Outreach via Instagram Fashion Bloggers

To publicize a women’s fashion survey, we propose letting fashion bloggers pitch a choice of two/multiple outfits to followers, and letting them decide which one looks better for an occasion or photo

What I’ve Got: Dancing Traffic Light

I came across this video of a “dancing traffic light” a couple years ago and it’s stuck in my mind ever since. It’s only been implemented in Lisbon, but the result shows that 81% more people stopped

iliza: the personal fashion assistant

Findings from Challenge 6: In Challenge 6, we designed a survey to discover the fashion habits of millennials. The goal of the survey was to test whether a personal dressing app would be well-received

What I’ve Got: Straddling Bus (Design Fail?)

To solve China’s traffic congestion problem, the “straddling bus” was invented and built in 2016. It is a public transit system that operates above traffic, standing at 2m above the ground. There was

What I’ve Got: Natural Cycles

Among the many contraceptive methods that include condoms and IUDs, never once did it cross my mind that an app could handle the same task. Then I came across this app called “Natural Cycles”: the onl

Drone Challenge

As part of challenge 9

What I’ve Got: Drip-Free Wine Bottle

The tasting event and the in-class guest appearance reminded me of this very recent invention: drip-free wine bottle. This research finding came from Brandeis after an amazingly long period of 3 years

What I’ve Got: Shuttle Accessibility

I didn’t spot this until a couple days ago, and I wonder what it was like when someone first proposed the idea. We’re all familiar with the bright yellow strip on buses that allow riders to indicate

Challenge 9: The Hartphones

Our website: hartphone.squarespace.com Hartphones embody several aspects of counterculture. Hartphones start off as a blank slate, leaving the consumer the option of which design they’d like to have

What I’ve Got: Repurposing Everyday Objects

Since this is the last WIG, I want to highlight some unconventional uses of everyday objects. I always appreciate versatility in objects, particularly common ones that each household has access to. Th

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Challenge 10: Team Pocket

Prepare for trouble/ And make it triple / To protect the world from dispossession/ To unite all pockets under oppression / To denounce the evils of purses as primacy/ To extend our reach to concealabl