Students will launch the Haworth design challenge, surface their assumptions about workspace needs, and conduct firsthand user research to create evidence-based empathy maps grounded in real interviews.

Students will synthesize individual user interviews into shared insights, identify patterns across workspace needs, and craft a clear, evidence-based How Might We statement that will guide their geometric product design for Haworth Furniture.

Students will generate a wide range of user-centered design ideas for a lamp, desk organizer, or art piece using cones, cylinders, and spheres, then narrow to 2–3 mathematically justified concepts that maximize volume while minimizing surface area in preparation for prototyping.

Students will build, test, and refine low- to higher-fidelity prototypes of their Haworth-inspired geometric products, using user feedback and precise volume and surface area calculations to improve efficiency and design quality.

Students will conduct a final round of user testing with new users, analyze feedback to refine their Haworth design prototypes, and present a mathematically justified, user-centered solution at the Student Expo.