{"id":6153,"date":"2025-05-21T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:15:04","slug":"comp364-designing-prototyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/2025\/05\/21\/comp364-designing-prototyping\/","title":{"rendered":"COMP364: Designing & Prototyping"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you create design systems that inspire joy instead of frustration?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Summer 2025 Newsletter Article<\/h6>\n\n\n
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Lauren Milne, assistant professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science researches accessibility in digital interfaces. Her expertise centers on making more accessible computer interactions for people with disabilities. In Milne\u2019s Spring 2025 Computer 364: Human-Computer Interaction course students actively applied concepts from her lectures. They tackled questions like, \u201cHow do you create design systems that inspire joy instead of frustration?\u201d or \u201cHow do you ensure you design for everyone, including people who may be very different from yourself?\u201d during regular sessions in the Idea Lab.<\/p>\n \t \t

The course focuses on a set of four group projects where students identify a design problem, explore solutions, and refine a prototype. By moving the traditional computer science classroom to the Idea Lab students have the opportunity to think beyond the screen and prototype with physical artifacts. Students used the Idea Lab to make paper prototypes of the Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science department website and prototype assistive technology through the Makers Making Change organization.<\/p>\n \t <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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