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A group of sixteen participants and organizers from the civic workshop pose in front of a lobby monitor that says "Civic Design Workshop"

Student-led civic design workshop reimagines Michigan eviction court forms

11/21/2024

More than 20 students, faculty and legal professionals came together at UMSI for a civic design workshop aimed at simplifying Michigan’s eviction court forms.

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U-M students win national FAA design competition with user-centered air traffic control interface

08/31/2023

U-M students who met in a School of Information course earned first place in the FAA competition with their design of an interface to streamline air traffic managers’ work.

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"Welcome, new faculty" headshots of Matthew Bui, Allen Flynn, Jesse Johnston, Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Michaelanne Thomas, Megan Threats, Justine Zhang, Alex McLeod, Gregory Myers, Scott TenBrink..

UMSI welcomes new 2022-23 faculty

08/24/2022

UMSI welcomes 10 new faculty and 30 lecturers for the 2022-23 school year.

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An attendee of the fall 2021 Citizen Interaction Design class final presentation expo interacts with a diorama created by the UMSI student team that aided the Ann Arbor Compost Center. The diorama, made with printouts and toy cars, displays the students’ added wayfinding markers throughout the composting facility and the simplifications they made to the facility’s pickup/dropoff kiosk.

UMSI students partner with Michigan communities to solve real-world information problems

02/11/2022

Students in the University of Michigan School of Information’s Citizen Interaction Design class collaborated with organizations in Ferndale and Ann Arbor to provide citizen-focused solutions for streamlining communications, facilitating interactions with technology and fighting misinformation.

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Voting counts: How UMSI grad students answered the question ‘Did you get my ballot?’

10/29/2020

UMSI graduate students worked this summer on a pilot project to streamline the absentee voting process at four municipalities in the state: Oxford Township, Ferndale, Bay City and Northville Township.

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Voting by mail, open meetings, banking: Students help communities with COVID-19 challenges

08/04/2020

Despite challenges brought on by COVID-19, nine teams of Citizen Interaction Design students from across the university's schools and colleges paired with civic leaders this summer to work on community engagement projects.

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UMSI’s remote design challenge: Reduce fees for cashing COVID-19 relief checks

03/31/2020

The City of Lansing is trying to help residents avoid or reduce fees when they cash their COVID-19 relief checks, and UMSI is calling on the school’s community of innovators to assist.

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UMSI students help make civic tools work for Detroit residents

08/05/2019

The City of Detroit enlisted UMSI students to contribute the user testing acumen necessary to ensure the voices of Detroit residents would be heard.

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Citizen Interaction Design introduces civic projects in Lansing

08/07/2019

The Civic Tech Exposition was a presentation featuring the work of University of Michigan students at Lansing City Hall.

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