Financial Aura: Designing Trust in AI-Powered Investing

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A UX Case Study on Navigation, AI Discoverability, and Financial Decision-Making Project Overview Financial Aura is an AI-powered investment research platform designed to help users analyze portfolios, evaluate stocks, and receive personalized financial insights through conversational AI tools. Before launch, the Financial Aura team wanted to better understand how real users interacted with the platform. […]

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Soft Stop: Designing for Healthier Relationships With Technology

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Team: Elizabeth Serjantov, Jasmine Chen, Manvi Tandon, Shaelyn ChenDuration: 6 weeks (April – May 2026) Project Type: Academic ProjectMethods: User Testing, Emotional Design Methodologies, User Interviews, Tools: Figma, Figjam, Google Meet Context & Background Soft Stop is a speculative mobile app that reconsiders digital wellbeing through the lens of emotional design. Rather than relying on rigid time limits or disruptive

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Edgar Agents: Designing a Financial Services Platform

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Team: Angela, Joanne, Tarun, & Tony Timeline: Sept – May 2026 Methodology: Information Architecture, Market Research, Ecosystem mapping, Heuristics Evaluation, Usability Testing Our team conducted market research and redesigned the marketing website for Edgar Agents, a company in the financial services filing services sector. TLDR: Our team conducted market research and redesigned the marketing website

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Redesigning the School of Leadership Platform to Drive Partner Engagement

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TEAM Harshita DanduSaniya JainVasilios NikolopoulosWendy Li ROLES UX Design TOOLS FigmaFigjam Project Overview The School of Leadership is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating young impact leaders. Through real-world programs and cross-sector partnerships, SoL helps in building character and capabilities required to lead social and environmental change. Scope After our kickoff meeting with the client,

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Worth Exploring Once You Know Where to Look – NY Philharmonic Archival Website Redesign

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Figure 1: NY Philharmonic Concert in Central Park. Source: NY Tourism What is NY Philharmonic & What is This Project About? Founded in 1842, NY Philharmonic is one of the oldest philharmonic orchestra worldwide. Based at the David Geffen hall at Lincoln Center, it appeals music professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world to

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From Spreadsheet to Product: Making Carbon Tracking Usable for Event Planners

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Transforming a technical carbon calculator into a more usable sustainability planning tool through usability research and product redesign As sustainability becomes increasingly relevant in our changing climate, tools that help organizers measure environmental impact are becoming more important. Through the Pratt Center for Digital Experiences (DX Center), our team partnered with Town+Gown: NYC. the NYC

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Wander-well: Travel that flows with you

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Designing emotionally adaptive travel experiences, with AI and using AI. An AI-powered travel companion that co-creates emotionally adaptive itineraries based on energy, mood, pace, and real-time context. Overview Travel planning today is optimized for logistics. But through our research, we found that people don’t want perfectly optimized travel. They want travel that adapts with them.

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The Right Fit: Redesigning the Emotional Experience of Online Sizing

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By: Uraiba Zafar, Mariel Go, Youlu Xu Overview Online clothing shopping is built around a sizing system that is both rigid and inconsistent. Standard size charts flatten bodies into measurements, “people like you” features oversimplify fit, and model imagery often reinforces narrow beauty standards. What should be a simple decision — choosing a size —

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Student Medical Ethics Journal – A Content Problem Hiding Inside A Navigation Problem

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Project Overview The Student Medical Ethics Journal is a nonprofit, student-run academic journal with a rare ambition: to democratize medical ethics discourse across students, practitioners, and educators worldwide. They publish peer-reviewed articles, video seminars, and multimedia content — and they’d been growing. But something wasn’t working. Users who arrived rarely stayed. Submissions were declining. And

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