During the course “Ontwerpen van interactieve systemen” (Interactive systems design), student teams will create an interactive prototype in two stages, finishing with an interactive hi-fi prototype. They will apply a selection of the human centred design methods that they study in the theoretical part of the course. Project work is supervised by Utrecht University staff, but there are regular meetings with the client organisations (see below). Each design challenge will be tackled by around 6 teams of around 6 students. The prototypes can be used as a starting-point of the actual development phase of the product, service or app.

✅ Key features of the challenge

• Students per team: 6 students
• Number of teams per challenge: 6 teams
• Course: Ontwerpen van interactieve systemen
• Level: Bachelor
• No. of hours spent per team: 400 hours
• Deliverables: Product vision; lo-fi prototype; hi-fi prototype; demo movie; 2 reports
• Company time investment: Your time involvement is 10-15 hours in total (prepare proposal; present the challenge; three interview sessions; attending the final presentation). Note on the interview session: interviews with each team have a maximum duration of 20 minutes, so that a full interview round can be done within 2 hours

📑 Challenge Examples

Find below some examples that the students have worked on:

• An interactive tool for note taking and note sharing within our hospital.
• Create interactive visualisations of slave trade databases
• Design gamification of behavioural change for chronically ill patients
• Designs for an app for highschool students to raise awareness of social media bubbles
• Virtual campus tour

🏢 Requirements for participating organisations

We strongly prefer to work with non-profit institutions and organisations. There should be at least one employee taking responsibility for the organisation’s role in the project. These involve answering student questions, supplying examples, data and background information, arranging interlocutors for the interviews, and if possible access to intended users.

📨 How to apply

You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge (max. 150 words). Click here for a template you can use.

🗓 Planning

• December 18, 2023: Deadline for submitting your challenge
• December 22, 2023: Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
• February 5-12, 2024: Matching phase
• February 19, 2024: Project work starts
• February 26-27, 2024: Kick-off meeting and first interview with your teams.
• Around March 5, 2024: second interview: product vision
• Around March 19, 2024: third interview: lo-fi prototype
• Around April 11, 2024: final symposium, with students presenting their hi-fi prototypes