Design for Community Change teamed up with Cognitive Psychology and paired students from the IxD program with an organization to design and develop a project for social impact. Working collaboratively with this year’s partner Hulu, students apply a variety of user experience and interaction design skill sets to solve a need identified by Hulu.
COLLABORATE WITH US“How might we design Hulu to be more accessible for people with needs or different challenges when it comes to discovering and/or viewing content?”
Five teams each selected a target audience to research how they experience streaming video content.
With consent forms and prepared interview scripts in hand, each team asked questions and made in-home observations of the participants video watching experience.
The research collected was presented to Hulu for feedback.
Each team brainstormed concepts and designed a prototype of the concept.
Participants gave feedback on accessibility of the prototypes that each team designed.
Each team presented their research and prototype on how to improve the video streaming experience for individual with special needs to Hulu.
