Hwang, a visual interaction designer at Lopelos Project Group, created an app to raise ocean pollution awareness, allowing users to share tips for reducing plastic use. She used Rails, React, and PostgreSQL to build the app and deployed it with Heroku.

Stubbs, product designer at IROKO Partners Limited, let mood words “throwback,” “vibrant,” and “bold” inspire his Beat.box design. His capstone project included a long-scroll landing page and mobile UI concept for the fictional music-streaming service.

Luebke, director of graphics and UI design at Auddia, tailored her design for the fictional Beat.Box music-streaming service toward young men ages 18–25. She created responsive landing page mockups and a logo featuring neon, hand-drawn typography.

Strasen, a web designer and developer for Designsake Studio, relied on insights from audience and competitive surveys to inform her approach for Liquid Lab, a fictional juice company. Her mood board and mockups convey a clean, energized design.

Bianco, a data analyst at Dstillery, took a deep dive into public data from New York City’s bikeshare program. By compiling, scrubbing, and analyzing the data using Python code, she was able to pinpoint the most popular routes for cycling commuters.

Kwon, senior product designer at Viacom, examined data from Pantheon’s historical popularity index. After identifying the top 10 figures, she created segments to identify relationships and trends in gender, location, industry, and more.

Forray, product analyst at Reonomy, sought to better understand the World Happiness Report and the factors that affected scores. Reconciling data types, she merged this set with details from the UN to paint a more nuanced picture of global rankings.

Braibant, design team lead at Ingram Micro, let user interviews inform Wanderlist, a travel-planning website and app. The case study includes user flows, information, architecture, and research-backed wireframes and prototypes.

Panetta, a product designer, conducted user interviews, competitive research, and affinity mapping to create Connect. The app allows locals, tourists, and solo travelers to plan shared experiences based on common interests.

Judal, a UX designer and art director, played off of a personal interest in men’s fashion with this interactive app. Compiling personas, IA, and hi-fi prototypes, his goal was to help users increase their style IQ — and their confidence.

Alegre, creatives and marketing manager at KompacPlus, compiled a plan to increase brand awareness in Malaysia by boosting email subscriptions. Tactics include paid search and social media marketing, a dedicated landing page, and iterative A/B testing.

Ly, account executive at Havas Health & You, helped a Boston-based artist solicit commissions and consultations by building regional brand awareness. His recommendations include tactics for content, organic search, and social media marketing.

Mekonnen, a growth marketing manager at ARC Document Solutions, focused on optimizing Pinx Catering’s web presence. Her plan includes social media tactics across Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram marketing as well as paid search and SEO.

Petrowski, a senior analyst at Precision Xtract, focused on the Bluebikes bikeshare program, comparing use by gender across points like trip duration and rides by station and identifying a low subscriber rate among women.

Murias explores what would happen if “consumers could invest in fantasy sports teams and trade them like stocks” with Fanvest. He lays out a business model, personas, an acquisition strategy, and success metrics for "the stock market of sports.”

Solari, senior project manager at Cantina, tackled the problem of choice overload among adult readers with Litspiration, a recommendation app. She used competitive analysis, risk assessment, and feature roadmapping to highlight its product/market fit.

Specter, senior UX/UI designer at Monster Energy, helps customers “find their flavor in a fun way” with an eCommerce solution for the Carbon Nation beverage company. Specter laid out target personas, company objectives and key results (OKRs), and success.

Tackling a client project for New Light Technologies, this group set out to better determine where people need help during and after natural disasters. They applied natural language processing and classification modeling to analyze social media posts.

Zorndorf, now a data analyst at Power Factors, built a machine-learning system to help eBay users buy and sell more intelligently. Using data from past listings, his capstone project predicts whether or not a given listing will sell and and for how much.

Cai, now a data scientist at GEICO, focused her attention on biomedical and life sciences for her capstone project. She used data mining and Python-powered dynamic topic models to analyze text and gain insight into research trends.

Jeffries, an experience designer at Vivid Seats, used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to let users build their own custom-made confections.

Irving, a UX designer for United Airlines, used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build an online marketplace for connecting with fellow vinyl-lovers and discovering new music.

Chansler, UX Design Lead at General Assembly, created this colorful sandwich maker with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to let users assemble their ideal bread-meat-topping combinations.

Thomas, now a user interface designer and engineer at Esri, focused on creating a clearer path to flexible work arrangements at the IMF. Conducting user interviews and usability testing, she designed a user-focused knowledge distribution system.

Black, now a UX designer and researcher at Clarksons Platou, tackled this consumer packaging challenge during a job interview. He came to his low-cost, low-resource solution via user research and wireframing.

Fielding, now a user experience designer at The Iconic, set out to break down barriers between hiring managers and students. Leveraging surveys, journey mapping, and A/B testing, she redesigned a role creation flow.

Tsiuriak and Ram, now both front-end developers, created this eater-friendly organisational tool using MongoDB, Express, React, and Node. The animated web app allows you to categorise the contents of your fridge and track their expiration dates.

Cabrera, now a software engineer at Currency, built a web-based adaptation of this popular board game. Powered by HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery the app allows players to test their logic and negotiation skills just as they would in person.

Schieber, senior demand generation manager at PGi, compared census and voter data from Cherokee County, Georgia, to examine the correlation between voter registration and election day turnout.

Umerez, a sales manager at Uber, uses matrix operations and data visualization to explore how holding a college degree affects the job satisfaction of millennials employed by the federal government.

Hankerson, senior director of public policy and government relations at Goodfriend Government Affairs, used exploratory data analysis and predictive modeling to examine Americans with below-average rates of broadband internet adoption.

Lin, director of employee success at Lever, uses Excel and SQL to analyze campaign expenditure data from the 2016 election, yielding surprising discoveries about the spending habits of presidential candidates.

Kennedy, head of product, CRE Lending at Amherst Holdings, tests actuarial models powered by machine learning and predictive modeling to conduct life insurance risk assessments that estimate applicant risk.