Human Centered Design & Engineering

Bringing HCDE to WA students

From teaching middle school students in northeastern Washington to coordinating Engineering Discovery Days activities at UW, Human Centered Design & Engineering student Taylor Bradshaw is helping inspire the next generation of engineers through outreach and mentorship.

Spring 2026 Course Showcases

HCDE ivites the community to a week of student showcases (June 2–8) featuring interactive demos, prototypes, presentations, and capstone projects from across HCDE courses.

Distinguished Lecture with Laura Forlano

Dr. Laura Forlano delivered HCDE's 2026 Distinguished Lecture, Designing Consequences: On Living Well with Machines. Drawing on her own “disabled cyborg” life and nearly two decades of research spanning design, critical disability studies, critical computing, and critical pedagogy, Forlano explored the social consequences of technology design and posed a broader provocation about who gets to decide what it means to be human — and who we will become as a species.

HCDE Research Showcase recap

The 2026 HCDE Research Showcase brought together researchers, students, alumni, and community partners for an evening of lightning talks, research posters, and interactive demos highlighting ongoing work across the department.