Task:
Create a digital or physical material board with at least 3 natural and 3 synthetic materials. Label their properties and potential applications.
Submission Format:
Photo, PDF, or presentation
Evaluation Criteria:
Accuracy, aesthetic arrangement, and clarity
Task:
Create a lighting plan for a bedroom that uses all three types of lighting. Include placement and fixture choices.
Submission Format:
Sketch or digital layout with brief descriptions
Evaluation Criteria:
Functionality, creativity, and understanding of light layering
Task:
Design a color palette for a living room using a chosen scheme (analogous, monochromatic, or complementary). Include 5–7 swatches and usage notes.
Submission Format:
Palette image or PDF with descriptions
Evaluation Criteria:
Color harmony, reasoning, and creativity
Task:
Pick an existing room in your home. Redesign it by describing how you’d adjust its materials, lighting, and color scheme to create better harmony and mood.
Submission Format:
Before/after description + optional moodboard
Evaluation Criteria:
Insight, creativity, and logic in material-light-color relationship
Task:
Create a full room design presentation: include moodboard, color palette, lighting plan, material list, and a short concept story.
Submission Format:
Slide deck or PDF
Evaluation Criteria:
Completeness, clarity, and professional quality
Task:
Conduct a usability test on your prototype (with 2 users). Document key feedback and implement at least 3 changes.
Submission Format:
Before & after screenshots, summary of feedback
Evaluation Criteria:
Actionability of changes, documentation clarity
Task:
Create an inclusive design solution for a public service app (e.g., emergency info, city services) with full documentation and accessibility consideration.
Submission Format:
Figma link, slides or case study PDF
Evaluation Criteria:
Accessibility, completeness, user-centered thinking
Task:
Design a wireframe and basic interactive prototype for a 3-screen app (e.g., to-do app or weather app).
Submission Format:
Figma link with short video walkthrough or screenshots
Evaluation Criteria:
Usability, structure, clarity
Task:
Create a user persona and empathy map based on a brief user interview (you can interview a friend or family member about a daily app they use).
Submission Format:
PDF or presentation slides
Evaluation Criteria:
Clarity, accuracy, user-centered insights
Task:
Choose an app you use regularly. Identify 3 UX strengths and 3 weaknesses using a user-centered design lens.
Submission Format:
PDF or Google Doc (300–500 words)
Evaluation Criteria:
Insightfulness, alignment with UCD principles
