INTERACTIVE MEDIA DESIGN STUDENT COHORT

2024 Cohort

This website and its contents were created in the autumn of 2022 by 23 design students as coursework in the Interactive Media Design program at the University of Washington Bothell. Through a five-credit studio course, students working in small teams were responsible for creating the website, social media accounts and engagement strategy, branding, logos, and general content design. Additionally, each student was responsible for contributing at least three media pieces to the site: a profile of a Washington State Digital Equity Advocate, at least one story or “explainer” about Digital Equity in Washington State, and at least one blog post musing on Digital Equity as a Design Space.

In tandem, through another concurrent five-credit course focusing on design research, students analyzed some 13 hours of video of recent public policy and practitioner convenings about Digital Equity policy and program design in Washington State along with their own secondary research. They met with our community advisors multiple times throughout the project. This prepared them to design an interview protocol for the DE Advocate Profiles. Each student chose who to profile from a list provided by our community experts. Each student chose the explainer topic and form they created with input from their instructors and community advisors.

Meet the team

Addison Pann

Alexandra Hochhalter

Amanda Ong

Bogdan Banica

Caleb Brady

Cindy Fu

Danyl Stephan Kok

Dilara Kai

Maraki Yewondwossen

Maya Totonchi

Yousef Sayed

Dylan Nguyen

Ella Silvas

Ethan Dith

Dilara Kai

2023 Cohort

This website and its contents were created and continued by the 2023 Interactive Media Design Program at University of Washington, Bothell. Through a course taught and monitored by Professor Dharma Dailey, the IMD students separated into tracks or teams with mini groups within each of the teams. The four main teams included Design Awareness, Website Production & Content, Social Media Production & Content, and Usability Research Operations. Teams have worked with social media outreach, workshops about Dear Digital Equity, guidance and guidelines based on thorough research, interviews based on possible stakeholders, designing and managing the website content, and creating a blog to share our toolkits and our process learning about Dear Digital Equity through our projects. Each of us also individually created social media posts to see how we can spread awareness of either Goodwill or the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP).

Throughout the project, we have continuously worked and met with our stakeholders, including the community advisors and educators who have participated in interviews. Students have also participated in presenting and showcasing Dear Digital Equity at the Summit.