While picking avocados at a supermarket, the question arose: what if someone cannot distinguish color correctly? Approximately 300,000,000 people worldwide have color vision deficiency — inherited at birth, affecting 8% of males and less than 1% of females.

Color vision deficiency can be frustrating and may limit participation in some occupations. Some professions may be challenging or downright dangerous without the ability to distinguish different hues.

148 participants surveyed (40 males, 108 females). Over 97% considered they can recognize colors correctly — yet 67.6% had never cared about or paid attention to colorblind people.

Interviewed Song, 19, a university student with red-green color blindness. Key pain points surfaced around daily life challenges with color perception.

Conclusion: Create a platform where colorblind and non-colorblind people can communicate and understand each other through shared photo experiences and personalized color definitions.

Mapped out two distinct user journeys — one for colorblind users uploading and tagging photos, and one for non-colorblind users discovering and browsing color palettes. Low-fidelity wireframes validated the core navigation logic before moving to high-fidelity design.

A dark-themed interface with vibrant accent colors. Typography uses Arachne for display titles, Arial for body text. The color palette deliberately reflects a bold, inclusive aesthetic — challenging the idea that color is only for those who see it "normally".

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After user testing, four key areas for improvement were identified:

• Image uploads need to be reviewed to prevent unsuitable images
• The color palette collection feature is not clearly explained to new users
• Colorblind users unintentionally navigate to non-colorblind user pages — flows need clearer separation
• Color tags are not obvious enough — need stronger visual affordance

Finland is known as one of the happiest countries — yet depression is a serious phenomenon, especially among immigrants and young people. The pandemic worsened isolation, anxiety and depression across the country.

Foreigners make up 8% of Finland's population and 5% of all foreigners are international students. Mental health symptoms are significantly more common among people with a foreign background — and the proportion diagnosed with depression and anxiety has almost tripled since 2000.

Survey included both foreigners and Finns living in Finland, revealing a strong desire to connect — yet significant systemic barriers to doing so.

Key barriers: Language (58%), Culture (50%), Hobbies (33%). People most often socialise through schoolmates (84%), internet (78%), and social activities (68%).

Three interviews uncovered distinct but overlapping needs across foreigners and locals.

Wireframes covered the full flow: login, event browsing, friend matching, and personal profile. User testing surfaced three key problems:

• How to confirm the new friend is a real person
• How to attract more users
• New users may not know how to use the app

Solutions: Added verification page, rewards promotion system, and onboarding tips.

A warm, approachable visual language with floral logo motifs inspired by Finnish student culture. The palette balances trust (blue) with energy (yellow).

The core innovation: a physical Arduino device with an LED 8×8 matrix display (MAX7219). At events, users hold their devices together — if the patterns match, they've found a compatible friend. The key insight: interaction must be physical and playful, not just digital.

Brief: Designing for interdependence — rethinking tech's self-sufficiency bias, and exploring new approaches that value human differences and sustain the ecology of care in everyday activities and technology use.

Our Interpretation: Focusing on immigrants' interdependent experiences in navigating banking and administrative processes in a new country, where success hinges on access to accurate information and collaboration among various administrative services.

We conducted 8 semi-structured interviews with people who moved to Sweden for work. The open nature of the interviews allowed us to gather rich insights on the challenges and highlights involved in the moving process.

To draw insights from our interview data we used Affinity Mapping — an effective way to structure a large dataset. The affinity mapping revealed a recurring issue: difficulties with integrating into banking and administrative systems, and the vital need for timely access to accurate information.

Affinity map categories: Government agency / private companies · Housing related · Work related · Cultural and social aspects · Suggestions · Undefined/Other

Three existing services for people moving to Sweden were benchmarked to identify gaps:

Gap identified: No existing service visualises how administrative processes are interconnected and interdependent — users cannot see which documents they need first to unlock the next step.

Target group: Immigrants who moved to Stockholm for work.

How Might We Statement: How might we help immigrants find the right information at the right time about the different stages of the banking and administrative processes — and how these services are interdependent?

Four ideation methods were used to generate and refine ideas:

Ideas explored included: AI Banking Assistant · Blockchain Identity Platform · Geo-tagging of authorities · Skill tree of documents · Progress bar of waiting times · Gamified onboarding (like Monopoly).

The concept of an interactive service map — showing how documents and services are connected — emerged as the strongest direction. This led to sketching, Lo-Fi prototyping (node-based map), and Hi-Fi prototyping in Figma.

Methods used: Moderated usability testing · Think aloud protocol · Observation · Contextual inquiry · Clickstream analysis

Key feedback from users:

• Readability & size — Service map icons were too small, compromising readability
• Information overload — Overwhelming to view the full service map at once; users want less shown at a time
• How to use the map — Users didn't understand that icons were clickable
• Lack of information — Confusion between a bank account and BankID; unclear document purposes
• Wishlist uncertainty — No clear indicator whether a document was on Wishlist or already obtained
• Color confusion — Different colours made users confused about categories

Improvements made:

• Skill icons — Increased size & reduced information density to avoid overwhelming users
• Added iconography — Star (Wishlist) and check mark (Obtained) icons for clear system status
• Legend — Added colour legend to service map to explain document categories
• Add to Wishlist — Button added in zoomed service view for easier access
• Profile view — Consistent iconography, visible Back button, location indicator
• Instruction tooltip — "Hey there! This is your personalized service map. Click on any service to get started."

The final product is a personalized service map that visualises the interdependencies between Swedish administrative documents and services. Users can click any service node to see the next steps, add items to a Wishlist, and mark documents as obtained — all in one place.

Storyboard — Aisha's journey: Arrived in Stockholm overwhelmed → visited Skatteverket confused → colleague recommended Sweasy → used the map to find documents needed for BankID → successfully completed all her documents.

Future scope:

• Full document process tracking with estimated processing times
• Map information with geo-tagged authority locations
• Zoom in/out of the service map
• More Swedish services (e.g. hospitals, housing)
• Wishlist auto-updates with a shared database across all agencies

With the development of technology, cell phones are being updated faster and faster — new models appear every year, and old ones are left behind. Only around 13% of e-waste is currently recycled. The question that sparked this project: So where do all the old phones go?

1 million cell phones recycled properly yields: Copper 16,000kg · Silver 350kg · Gold 34kg · Palladium 14kg. Yet the processing is costly and technically complex — most end up in drawers or landfills.

A questionnaire and user interviews were conducted to understand why people hold onto old phones and what barriers exist to recycling.

Top reasons to keep phones: Insufficient storage (31.3%), new product releases (29.4%), functions no longer work (21.5%).

Interview voices: "My old phone — I will not throw it away because there are my memories." · "One unused phone is to listen to music, the other has been idle." · "I do not use the phone and do not deal with it."

Current options for disposing of phones fall short:

Conclusion: The number of phones used as backups far exceeds demand. Phones used for music and memory storage are never recycled. The recycling rate is extremely low.

Three design principles guided the concept:

Two art installations inspired the concept: Yellow Dust (C+ Azahara Ubera) — uses light to signal toxic air from improper e-waste disposal; The Substitute (Daisy Ginsberg) — expresses endangered animals through virtual visual effects. Both use sensory experience to make invisible dangers visible.

Phone Grave is an interactive installation where recycled phones are given a "burial" — a holographic grave displayed in binary code. The form of the grave is generated from user input, converted to binary, and projected as a hologram. The overall grave display uses binary numbers as its visual language.

Storyboard — 6 steps:

The installation is built around four zones: Entrance → Holographic Projection of Phone Grave → Interactive Art Area → Participant's Interactive Area. The machine detects the type of equipment submitted, converts the model number into binary (C++, ASCII to Binary), and displays it on the grave hologram.

Technical stack: C++ for binary conversion · Holographic projection hardware · NFC / ID card reader for return visits · Olfactory element (stench → aroma transition)

A dark, cyberpunk-inspired visual language — teal binary code against black backgrounds, industrial typography. The identity extends across: exhibition posters, participant ID cards (NFC-enabled lanyards), and the holographic display itself. The binary aesthetic reinforces the project's core message: every phone has a digital life worth commemorating.

Remote work has grown exponentially — telecommuting has risen by 159% since 2009. While workers save an average of 40 minutes of commuting daily, they face new challenges: juggling 4–5 different software tools in a single workday, missing messages, and losing track of tasks across platforms.

Since COVID-19, there is a global trend towards telecommuting. The ability to effectively reduce commuting time and focus more on work has accelerated adoption — but the tools haven't kept up.

Three leading remote work tools were evaluated for their strengths and weaknesses:

Key insight: One-time notifications and multi-software switching lead to forgotten replies and missed messages — which delays work processes and reduces efficiency.

Four personas were developed to represent the range of remote workers using productivity tools daily:

Checkmate consolidates remote work tools into one unified platform — pulling conversations from different softwares into a single chronological view, so nothing slips through the cracks.

The app is structured around three core areas: Work Schedule (applications, chatting, to-do list, calendar), Notification (normal tasks, important tasks, tasks near due date), and Settings. Three key user flows were mapped: login & setup, completing a task, and setting a reminder.

Low-fidelity wireframes established the core layout: a sidebar navigation with application integrations, a main chat/task view, and a calendar. User testing surfaced three key issues:

• The page needs to be clearer
• The to-do list needs improvement
• The chat box dialog doesn't need to be this large

Five high-fidelity screens were designed showcasing: Getting Started onboarding, Main Functions dashboard, Adding Tasks from chat, Two types of tasks, and Notification system.

A calm, professional visual language — warm neutrals with teal accents create a focused workspace feel without visual fatigue during long work sessions.

Typography: Arial 30pt for titles, Arial 20pt for body — clean and universally readable across operating systems.

Story Board: Six illustrated panels showing the user journey — from missing a deadline due to a missed message, to downloading Checkmate and organizing all tasks in one place.