In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design was folded into Illinois Tech's School of Design & Society.
This website is an archive of the impactful and inspirational work produced by the ID community before that transition.

László Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, treating design as a discipline that was teachable, testable, and consequential. Nine decades on, its scope had widened from the things people use to the systems they depend on: hospitals, government agencies, classrooms, supply chains, digital platforms. Along the way, ID community members developed the published research, methods, and frameworks that designers rely on every day.

Chief among them is human-centered design: close attention to how people actually live, and advocacy for what that research reveals. It shaped designers who are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: curious, rigorous, inclusive, and stubbornly optimistic about design's ability to change the systems that shape our lives.

To every one of them, who taught, studied, built, critiqued, and stayed late in the studio: thank you, and keep designing.

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Bloxology

By Rhea Shah | Anurag Duddu | Samantha Chandra

May 10, 2024

Creating inclusive design for education

Bloxology is an interactive, educational game designed as a learning companion for 6th-graders learning biology. It comprises multiple levels that teach various class topics such as animal migration, climate, ecosystems, and more. The full experience is delivered on a tablet-based app that works with a physical gameboard.

This project is one of the main projects for Introduction to Interaction Design, where our team was challenged to create an inclusive and immersive learning experience for elementary school students on animal migration. For five weeks, our team explored various ways to deliver this content, striving to optimize for accessible and interactive qualities.

Project Details

Class: Introduction to Interaction Design
Instructor: Zach Pino | Paolo Tanedo

Rhea Shah

Rhea Shah

MDes + MBA 2025

Anurag Duddu

Anurag Duddu

MDes + MPA 2025

Samantha Chandra

Samantha Chandra

MDes 2025