2025 HCDE Capstone Showcase
The University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering held its annual Capstone Showcase on June 2, 2025. This year's showcase featured 50 final projects from graduating master's and bachelor's students, on projects related to health, work, entertainment, transport, sustanability, and more. View the 2025 project videos here.
Now accepting capstone project proposals for 2026
A team of HCDE typically spends 100+ hours on their Capstone experience. If you have a design project that would benefit from a fresh human-centered perspective, learn more and propose a 2026 Capstone project here.
Questions? Contact Melissa Ewing, HCDE Outreach Manager, at mewing3@uw.edu.
2025 Capstone Awards
At the Capstone Showcase, student teams met with guest judges, including HCDE alumni and friends working in industry. The judges awarded select teams in the categories of Creativity, Engagement, and Leadership.
Awards were announced at the 2025 Graduation & Awards Ceremony.
Creativity Award
Recognizes projects that innovate creativity and take risks with design, research, ideation, prototyping, or otherwise.
UNDERGRADUATE AWARD
Interaction Design to Enhance Workplace Reflections, Meetings, and Planning
Sponsor: 11fold
Students: Annie Yao, Ashwin Prabhakar, Christian Kjaer, Gavin Giametta
MASTER'S AWARD
SurePlate: A Personalized Travel Dining App to Confidently Order and Connect Beyond Language
Students: Katrina Zhang, Clarice Wu
Engagement Award
Recognizes teams that go above and beyond with respect to one or more of the following: equity, justice, environment, and changing lives.
UNDERGRADUATE AWARD
PACCAR Electric Truck Human Machine Interface (HMI)
Sponsor: PACCAR
Students: Keyvyn Rogers, Mia Vong, Kulbir Singh, Jackie Khuong
MASTER'S AWARD
Pluringüe: Designing a Fun and Interactive Reading Experience for Early Readers
Sponsor: Shoonya Digital
Students: Candelaria Herrera, Dale Baker, Hemant Bothra, Samsam Mohamud, Pooja Tekade
Leadership Award
Recognizes groundbreaking and unique social or technical leadership.
UNDERGRADUATE AWARD
Flow that Sells: Reimagining the Reuse Store at Seattle REconomy
Sponsor: Seattle REconomy
Students: Camryn Soo, Ilena Dalla Gasperina, Miya Nakata, Ria Goyal
MASTER'S AWARD
Design for Learning: Helping Creators Build Games for the Classroom
Sponsor: Washington Interactive Learning Alliance
Students: Patriz Elaine Daroy, Bonnie Liu, Kelli McGee, Paige Han, Hang Tran