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Task:
Create a digital or physical material board with at least 3 natural and 3 synthetic materials. Label their properties and potential applications.

Submission Format:
Photo, PDF, or presentation

Evaluation Criteria:
Accuracy, aesthetic arrangement, and clarity

Task:
Create a lighting plan for a bedroom that uses all three types of lighting. Include placement and fixture choices.

Submission Format:
Sketch or digital layout with brief descriptions

Evaluation Criteria:
Functionality, creativity, and understanding of light layering

Task:
Design a color palette for a living room using a chosen scheme (analogous, monochromatic, or complementary). Include 5–7 swatches and usage notes.

Submission Format:
Palette image or PDF with descriptions

Evaluation Criteria:
Color harmony, reasoning, and creativity

Task:
Pick an existing room in your home. Redesign it by describing how you’d adjust its materials, lighting, and color scheme to create better harmony and mood.

Submission Format:
Before/after description + optional moodboard

Evaluation Criteria:
Insight, creativity, and logic in material-light-color relationship

Task:
Create a full room design presentation: include moodboard, color palette, lighting plan, material list, and a short concept story.

Submission Format:
Slide deck or PDF

Evaluation Criteria:
Completeness, clarity, and professional quality

Task:
Conduct a usability test on your prototype (with 2 users). Document key feedback and implement at least 3 changes.

Submission Format:
Before & after screenshots, summary of feedback

Evaluation Criteria:
Actionability of changes, documentation clarity

Task:
Create an inclusive design solution for a public service app (e.g., emergency info, city services) with full documentation and accessibility consideration.

Submission Format:
Figma link, slides or case study PDF

Evaluation Criteria:
Accessibility, completeness, user-centered thinking

Task:
Choose an app you use regularly. Identify 3 UX strengths and 3 weaknesses using a user-centered design lens.

Submission Format:
PDF or Google Doc (300–500 words)

Evaluation Criteria:
Insightfulness, alignment with UCD principles

Task:
Create a user persona and empathy map based on a brief user interview (you can interview a friend or family member about a daily app they use).

Submission Format:
PDF or presentation slides

Evaluation Criteria:
Clarity, accuracy, user-centered insights

Task:
Design a wireframe and basic interactive prototype for a 3-screen app (e.g., to-do app or weather app).

Submission Format:
Figma link with short video walkthrough or screenshots

Evaluation Criteria:
Usability, structure, clarity