I made this cooperative systems board game that teaches players about the challenges urban planners face when designing sustainable cities with net negative carbon emissions.

Featuring geometric visuals, elegant onboarding, hand-made (and laser-cut) tactile pieces! We extensively prototyped, playtested, and iterated, with special attention to the information design in our rule sheet and onboarding to support our players' understanding of the game and key concepts!

In a two-week sprint, my team and I created a competitive social game that teaches how corporations can use customers’ digital footprints to construct personas for more accurate targeted advertisements, contributing to the rise of what Professor Shoshana Zuboff termed “surveillance capitalism."

We aimed to raise awareness on corporate data-mining, model the predictive algorithmic system for "speculation on human futures," and inspire conversations on digital surveillance and its inextricable ties to capitalism. (And yes, featuring laser-cut recycleable, reflective acrylic!)

As part of The History of You project exploring the impact of intergenerational trauma on mental health, my team and I designed, prototyped, playtested, and finalized a print-and-play healing-centric board game that facillitated building interpersonal connections and enacted the process of healing from trauma through removing "trauma rocks" and growing flowers.

We prioritized sensory design and metaphor coherence, such as using real rocks to epitomize the heaviness of trauma and all-natural organic materials to reflect the garden aesthetic.