How to communicate your opinions with more influence and power by substantiating opinions with facts and evidence. Our “Call to Action” for the audience- When in doubt, always pair your opinion with at least one fact and a piece of evidence!
Loop enables customers to understand how much of their personal data is already public. This product encourages customers to reclaim control over their data - either though using their data to make money or by keeping the data to control personal data privacy settings. The product educates how much personal data could be worth when it is aggregated with other members and sold to interested parties.
Buckkit is a web browser extension designed primarily for Millenials, as they face challenges in managing their ongoing finances. Specifically, we uncovered through dozens of interviews with these consumers that they: 1) Save backwards – they spend what they have to and what they want to now, figuring they will save what they have leftover. 2) Find financial check-ins stressful, as they often find that they don’t have as much, if anything, left to save once they have finished spending for the short term. 3) Encounter the biggest impulse-spend pitfall while shopping online – it’s tempting and easy to click and make a purchase without thinking about longer-term trade-offs. Buckkit helps address these three issues by facilitating savings goals before spending begins and providing a visual indicator of progress versus those goals within users’ web browsers: 1) Users first set up their goals for the money that remains after necessities (i.e. rent, bills) and automatic long-term savings are paid, desi…
Benny Gold is a San Francisco based retail clothing and accessories brand. Over the past decade, the business has grown from a small side project to one of street wear’s more celebrated labels. As a brand, Benny Gold emphasizes the importance of staying true to one’s passions, growing up without growing old, and a DIY work ethic. It is a labor of love and hard work on the part of a close knit group of friends and family. Successful companies understand that building a business is really about three things: creating value through its activities, delivering value to its customers and capturing value for itself in the process. This project focused on the creation of an operations plan to help the business address its short term growth challenges and help streamline its daily operations. More specifically, it provided recommendations for sales and pricing strategies, demand forecasting and technology planning, in order to achieve superior inventory management and wholesale order tracking.
CCA Libraries is a department of the California College of the Arts. CCA Libraries has as its mission to support teaching and learning at the college by assessing, gathering, and preserving information, providing students and faculty with informational and material resources, and facilitating institutional research.</p> Libraries have historically been the center points of institutions of higher learning. The advent of the information age is challenging the traditional role of libraries. The Internet has replaced the library as the go-to source for reference and research. As a result, CCA Libraries' is suffering from a diminishing role. CCA Libraries recognizes both the need and the opportunity to reenvision how it serves the college community. CCA Libraries has the vision of becoming the central hub of campus activity that deepens and enriches faculty and student engagement. This plan proposes two operational initititaves that make strides toward that end and help elevate CCA Libraries' role in the colle…